Re:YouTube Kids a “vapid wasteland” say US lawmakers
by gambiting on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @03:58PM
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The problem with society is that we've gotten to a point where everything is always somebody else's fault. No one is ever responsible for anything, it must be the fault of social conditioning, corporations, religions, upbringing, or literally anything else you want to blame. Sure those things play a part, but ultimately people are responsible for what they do. If someone is letting their 3 year old spend hours in front of YouTube every day then that's really their fault, not Google's
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Re:YouTube Kids a “vapid wasteland” say US lawmakers
by wffurr on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @04:16PM
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Come back to me when you've come home from a long workday to deal with the results of telling a small child "no" yet again. It's not pretty, and you gotta save your "nos" for what matters.
Setting up some parent to believe that letting their kid explore YouTube Kids on their own is a good idea through your marketing and then having the vast majority of the content on the service be low quality dreck with no redeeming value is setting up parents for failure.
YouTube Kids either needs to curate a lot better (as if) or back off on their marketing claims.
Re:YouTube Kids a “vapid wasteland” say US lawmakers
by jumpman_miya on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @07:39PM
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I do it everyday man. I had to block a kids channel called FGTV. The dad who runs the channel is super inappropriate and I didn't want my son to learn from him. Do you think my 5 year old understood that?
Re:YouTube Kids a “vapid wasteland” say US lawmakers
by dasKrokodil on Thursday April 08, 2021 @06:01AM
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>It's not pretty, and you gotta save your "nos" for what matters.
Yes, but I'd argue that this matters.