YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burning, but leaves up tips

Re:YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burni... by ajross on Friday July 01, 2022 @09:30AM (#31946074)

> Our 12-year-old recently tried to make himself "cheese on toast" by putting both cheese and uncooked bread into the (almost brand new, upright) toaster. Aaargh!

I know it's tempting to blame modern technological monstrosities for this nonsense, but kids were lighting toasters on fire before the internet.

Source: lit a toaster on fire, prior to the January 1983 IPv4 migration on the ARPANET (and long before I knew what any of that meant).

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Re:YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burni... by framapotari on Friday July 01, 2022 @09:33AM (#31946109)

I don't think anyone was blaming modern technology, or anything specific, for this nonsense?

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Re:YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burni... by undersuit on Friday July 01, 2022 @10:07AM (#31946596)

The "cheese on toast" anecdote was told in response to someone blaming modern technology for "outright faking craft and cooking tips". Contextually I gathered that modern technology might be part of the conversation.

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Re:YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burni... by framapotari on Friday July 01, 2022 @10:13AM (#31946669)

That's one way to read it, but it might just be a related anecdote that the poster wanted to share. Without any explicit mention of blaming modern technology I don't think it's fair to make the assumption that the text is doing that.

Just because you respond to something doesn't mean you are either refuting it or agreeing with it.

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