Re:Better protecting kids’ privacy on YouTube
by jedberg on Monday January 06, 2020 @08:23PM
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> Dare I ask why you put your guards up against YouTube instead of either deciding that your kids are too young to use a tablet/smartphone/PC in general, or that sometimes contents is scary but it's OK to talk about?
My kids are too young to have unrestricted access to the internet. That's why they are limited to specific kids apps.
But YTKids is different than all the other kids apps. All the other apps have a human check all the content before it goes live.
So I can be reasonably certain that the content will be ok without watching it all first.
With YT, I can't have that certainty. So they just don't get to use that platform anymore.
Yeah, bad things happen, and when they do I talk to my kids about it.
But I don't want to purposely subject them to such things if I don't have to.
My kids are too young to have unrestricted access to the internet. That's why they are limited to specific kids apps.
But YTKids is different than all the other kids apps. All the other apps have a human check all the content before it goes live.
So I can be reasonably certain that the content will be ok without watching it all first.
With YT, I can't have that certainty. So they just don't get to use that platform anymore.
Yeah, bad things happen, and when they do I talk to my kids about it.
But I don't want to purposely subject them to such things if I don't have to.