3 ms·

This is just the usual internet trolling that occurs everywhere. There's probably campaigns on various forums (e.g. 4chan) to see how many of these videos can b

This is just the usual internet trolling that occurs everywhere. There's probably campaigns on various forums (e.g. 4chan) to see how many of these videos can be snuck through the filters. I'm actually surprised that Google has done as good of a job to moderate it in their children's app (if their reported 30-day 0.005% flagging rate is correct[0]). 0. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/04/business/media/youtube-kids-paw-patrol.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/04/business/media/youtube-ki...

s73v3r_ 8y ago
Don't excuse things as trolling.
- jameslk 8y ago
  It is trolling, and this article is just painting an alarmist narrative. Google clearly did something about the issue of how to create a filtered experience for children, by creating YouTube Kids. Most of the article is just pointing to "weirdness" in videos on YouTube proper, which should surprise no one.
  - astura 8y ago
    These videos were appearing on YouTube Kids.
  - myWindoonn 8y ago
    I've been on 4chan for over a decade now. It isn't 4chan trolling and there's no concerted campaign that I can find on any board. (Do you have a link or other evidence to contradict this? We'd love to see it!) The investigations that have been carried out so far seem to point to individual small film studios who produce the content because it seems to be an acceptable business model for them, and of course YT's own recommendation algorithms for being unable to distinguish between kid-okay and not-kid-okay content.
    - jameslk 8y ago
      I was a 4chan regular from 2006 until 2012 and saw plenty of campaigns like this. For example, there were regular campaigns against Habbo Hotel[0] ("Pools closed", etc), no less a game designed for kids that also struggled with trolling. I used 4chan as an example, but there are countless other forums where this goes on. I don't think I have to explain why a video about killing Micky Mouse (one of the examples from the article) with keywords of "child safe" and "learn colors" is not a form of trolling. What else would it be? That others feel inclined to single out Google over it using a few videos as examples when its endemic of the internet as a whole is silly. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habbo#Habbo_raids https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habbo#Habbo_raids
  - anigbrowl 8y ago
    that something may be trolling doesn't validate it.
  - s73v3r_ 8y ago
    "Google clearly did something about the issue of how to create a filtered experience for children, by creating YouTube Kids." Which, if you had read the article, or the one that proceeded it, or even used the app at all, you would know it's absolute garbage, and makes the problem worse. Google is not using human curators for YouTube Kids, they are trying to use automation, which is why all these things are in an app for kids.

s73v3r_ 8y ago

Don't excuse things as trolling.

jameslk 8y ago
It is trolling, and this article is just painting an alarmist narrative. Google clearly did something about the issue of how to create a filtered experience for children, by creating YouTube Kids. Most of the article is just pointing to "weirdness" in videos on YouTube proper, which should surprise no one.
- astura 8y ago
  These videos were appearing on YouTube Kids.
- myWindoonn 8y ago
  I've been on 4chan for over a decade now. It isn't 4chan trolling and there's no concerted campaign that I can find on any board. (Do you have a link or other evidence to contradict this? We'd love to see it!) The investigations that have been carried out so far seem to point to individual small film studios who produce the content because it seems to be an acceptable business model for them, and of course YT's own recommendation algorithms for being unable to distinguish between kid-okay and not-kid-okay content.
  - jameslk 8y ago
    I was a 4chan regular from 2006 until 2012 and saw plenty of campaigns like this. For example, there were regular campaigns against Habbo Hotel[0] ("Pools closed", etc), no less a game designed for kids that also struggled with trolling. I used 4chan as an example, but there are countless other forums where this goes on. I don't think I have to explain why a video about killing Micky Mouse (one of the examples from the article) with keywords of "child safe" and "learn colors" is not a form of trolling. What else would it be? That others feel inclined to single out Google over it using a few videos as examples when its endemic of the internet as a whole is silly. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habbo#Habbo_raids https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habbo#Habbo_raids
- anigbrowl 8y ago
  that something may be trolling doesn't validate it.
- s73v3r_ 8y ago
  "Google clearly did something about the issue of how to create a filtered experience for children, by creating YouTube Kids." Which, if you had read the article, or the one that proceeded it, or even used the app at all, you would know it's absolute garbage, and makes the problem worse. Google is not using human curators for YouTube Kids, they are trying to use automation, which is why all these things are in an app for kids.