YouTube Kids a “vapid wasteland” say US lawmakers

Re:YouTube Kids a “vapid wasteland” say US lawmakers by HideousKojima on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @03:58PM (#26730321)

Being a parent is about sacrifice, lots and lots of it. That includes working yourself beyond exhaustion to provide for, feed, play with, give attention to, and talk with your kids. It isn't easy, but it's the moral responsibility of everyone who becomes a parent.

I realize a huge percentage of parents fail at this (some more than others), and the amount of work that must be done to make a living and the ease with which things like Youtube make handing off parenting to them doesn't help matters. But the moral responsibility still ultimately resides with the parents themselves.

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Re:YouTube Kids a “vapid wasteland” say US lawmakers by gman83 on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @07:16PM (#26732853)

Sure, being a parent is a massive moral responsibility. But the facts are that many kids have shitty parents through no fault of their own. I see kids who's parents let them go on Youtube/Tiktok for hours with no supervision. The fact is that if we don't do something as a society for these kids now, we'll be paying their therapy bills through our insurance in a couple of decades. So probably more efficient to do something now.

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Re:YouTube Kids a “vapid wasteland” say US lawmakers by wffurr on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @04:17PM (#26730597)

Yeah and the issue here is the marketing claims behind YouTube Kids are straight up false. It's setting up parents for failure by piling onto the already-exhausting burden.

It's just plain wrong.

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