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I am a parent and I do not see the relevance of YouTube to raising children nor any other tech. What I said is that YouTube is not a public service, you just up

I am a parent and I do not see the relevance of YouTube to raising children nor any other tech. What I said is that YouTube is not a public service, you just upgraded them from 'public service' to 'an parental service' and yet you slam me instead of parents relying on entertainment companies to raise their children. I am trying to raise an interested and independent child with her own interests who goes through this world awake, not a member of the phone-zombies you see everywhere who have a never ending hunger for flashy videos and other entertainment. That there are parents who put their babies/toddlers in a stroller with a phone in their hands is just mind boggling to me. My daughter is almost a year old and the only time she has ever looked at a screen (including TV) for longer than 10 seconds is when we video call her grandma who lives in another country.

vanderZwan 9y ago
Yet somehow, despite all your valid criticisms of the media and technology in general, you argue that neither YouTube nor the people who upload these kinds of videos may be held accountable for their exploitative behaviour. Impressive bit of cognitive dissonance there. Although I suppose it can be explained with > I couldn’t care less. Which is fine, but then there is no logical reason for anyone else to care about your point of view either.
- mosselman 9y ago
  I didn’t say nobody should be held accountable. My main criticism was with the article’s tone of ‘the world is coming to an end’, or as if people were spraying graffiti all over Van Gogh’s paintings. While in the end it is just YouTube that has some more crappy videos. Don’t get me wrong, there are many many useful videos on YouTube as well. The accountability for YouTube would come in the form of less users or less advertisers. Until this happens though, these ‘crappy’ videos are appertently just what the users want to see and the automated advertising bots don’t care. Accountability for the video-makers? I don’t see why. The copyright system is broken and counter productive in many cases to our ability as humans to create more knowledge. One could always argue that it is an art project anyway.

vanderZwan 9y ago

Yet somehow, despite all your valid criticisms of the media and technology in general, you argue that neither YouTube nor the people who upload these kinds of videos may be held accountable for their exploitative behaviour. Impressive bit of cognitive dissonance there. Although I suppose it can be explained with > I couldn’t care less. Which is fine, but then there is no logical reason for anyone else to care about your point of view either.

mosselman 9y ago
I didn’t say nobody should be held accountable. My main criticism was with the article’s tone of ‘the world is coming to an end’, or as if people were spraying graffiti all over Van Gogh’s paintings. While in the end it is just YouTube that has some more crappy videos. Don’t get me wrong, there are many many useful videos on YouTube as well. The accountability for YouTube would come in the form of less users or less advertisers. Until this happens though, these ‘crappy’ videos are appertently just what the users want to see and the automated advertising bots don’t care. Accountability for the video-makers? I don’t see why. The copyright system is broken and counter productive in many cases to our ability as humans to create more knowledge. One could always argue that it is an art project anyway.