YouTube Kids 'showed nippers how to make nooses, play with fire' Two advocacy groups have filed an update to their Federal Trade Commission complaint against Google's YouTube Kids app for "false and deceptive marketing", alleging that Google is deceiving parents by marketing YouTube Kids as a safe place for under-fives when they believe the app is "rife" with inappropriate content. The …
Well you see this was an accident that no one could have predicted and isn't related in any way to the constant advertising from firearm manufacturers that your life and home are constantly in danger unless you're constantly armed and ready to shoot at all times.
But YouTube better take down all their junk because my pastor who once sat on the city council said young men are highly susceptible to all kinds of mentally corrupting influences.
"Well you see this was an accident that no one could have predicted..."
Are you referring to just the NRA or also to the paranoid state that media, government, and the rest of society promote to sell fear? Butt, I do understand it's easier to just single out 1 specific party to promote your point of view, it helps people "get on board" (just ask the African slaves).
Still eagerly awaiting the alien invasion.
I understand why those WWII cartoons have been kept under wraps for a long time. But now I'm thinking that in the right context (i.e. people of other races in one's own classroom), they might be a good education about how perceptions change, and enemies need not remain enemies. It's a question worth asking.
I don't think any of the classic ( or modern-classic ) cartoons would pass muster nowadays in terms of violence, (racial) stereotyping, "unsafe behaviour", and all the other non-PC things we aren't supposed to expose Fragile Kids' Minds to nowadays.. Tom & Jerry, Bugs & Elmer, Tweety and Sylvester, R.R. and Wile. E, the list goes on...
* Explicit sexual language presented amidst cartoon animation
* Videos that model unsafe behaviors such as playing with lit matches, shooting a nail gun, juggling knives, tasting battery acid, and making a noose
* A profanity-laced parody of the film Casino featuring Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street
* Graphic adult discussions about family violence, pornography, and child suicide
* Jokes about paedophilia and drug use
* Advertising for alcohol products
So basically they have access to the internet.....
The young-child subculture was documented by Piaget decades ago as having its own life, including a lot of things that parents were never aware of. Kids have always been exposed to much more than their parents recall from their own youth. I would argue that this is a kind of anti-viral process, where learning about the real world early helps prevent improper learning later. E.g. if you've seen cows and cats doing it, a lot of the mystery of sex goes away, and a proper, basic understanding of biology stands one in good stead in later life.
I knew how to make things early - I made my own toy box, including running the table saw, drill press, etc. at the age of five. I was also making fire and blowing (small) things up not long after, but I had an older brother who was also pretty good at teaching how to do things safely. For that matter, I was experimenting with household electricity more-or-less safely at the age of five. And we were making rockets and other things when I was no more than eight.
" if you've seen cows and cats doing it, a lot of the mystery of sex goes away"
I reckon if you saw a cat and a cow doing it the mystery would be enhanced. One of the animals would have to be a heck of a contortionist. I guess the tomcat has to hang on with its claws?
I got given a set of books from the 30s on how to be a good boy/man. It included chapters on making explosive devices (fireworks and black powder sticks) and how to behave in other countries (shout alot and congratulate them on not being total barbarians).
As well as how handle dead bodies, skin rabbits and proper knife sharpening.
It's not as if did kids back then aby harm.....
"Anyone who complained should have their details passed straight to the local rozzers for neglect."
Why? It sounds like with the complainants, I don't think they are claiming they left their kid sitting around, then saw this. I think they looked into the service ahead of time.
Normally, I think these "Oh think of the children" types are kind of wankers. And to be honest, I doubt these young children will really be harmed by anything they see on there. But, in this case, I really can't disagree with their arguments. Youtube presented this service as something appropriate for young children, and it sounds like it's not.
I'm guessing what happened is 1) Youtube opened this service. 2) Trolls put various Youtube clips on there to mess with.. well, whatever motivation trolls have. 3) No profit. Youtube expects "improper" videos to be flagged for removal, rather than pre-screening; the kids aren't going to flag anything, and I wouldn't expect parents to pre-screen since it was after all presented as a service with children's videos.) I think, quite simply, Youtube expected to be able to use the exact same procedures as the main service, and this simply won't work for a service like this were people really panic if anything "slips by".
I feel old now. When I was a kid, I had to learn how to make a noose from a book of knots. I can't recall exactly whether it was in the encyclopedia or one of those boy scout books or something. Did you know that our children can just go to the library and read ANY OLD BOOK without anyone to approve it? Libraries should be more closely regulated to protect our children from dangerous information like verbs and pictures. Well, maybe not all verbs, but definitely anything in the future tense.
...when meanwhile, YouTube For Adults is still a shithole full of schlocky music videos, plane crash porn, car crash porn, MLM and timeshare real-estate spam, cats falling off of sofas, frat boys launching bottle rockets from their ass cracks, and people throwing dry ice into swimming pools and dumping buckets of ice water on their heads?
Whats the fuss about?
When I was seven or eight I had a book which showed you how to kill and gut a rabbit, kill a chicken, catch fish, tar a boat and tie knots - including a full hangmans noose. I never tarred the boat (couldn't find any birch trees to skin the bark from), but did the rest. In fact my mother showed me the killing stuff - I had to work out the noose myself. Its not just a slipknot - done properly it is actually quite clever
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