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I see very little difference between this and all the weird shit we and our parents before us watched on TV and the internet. The article claims that this time
by tw1010 9y ago
I see very little difference between this and all the weird shit we and our parents before us watched on TV and the internet. The article claims that this time it's different because the stuff is "deliberately targeted with content which will traumatise and disturb them". But were not the incredibly violent things we watched also deliberately targeted to disturb us? That's the whole aim of a website like liveleak. It doesn't really matter that now the stuff is computer generated whereas before the stuff was generated by humans. I think we're underestimating how good people are at creating content and overestimate how well computers are at doing it.
- loeg 9y ago2-5 year olds weren't browsing liveleak.
- tw1010 9y agoBut they did watch things similar to what a poster linked below (https://youtu.be/PFDKWbg2xjg https://youtu.be/PFDKWbg2xjg), which, barring the uncanny valley component, I really see little difference between.
- Kenji 9y agoI played the game Rise of the Triad when I was like 7 years old, maybe younger. A ridiculously brutal game. Still lovin' it today. Good times. People are way too alarmist when it comes to kids consuming "mature" stuff. You can only withhold so much information from a kid in an ever more interconnected world. And that is good.