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Not sure why you’re being downvoted. It’s definitely possible to just not let your kids use YouTube unsupervised.. or curate content for them.

mattsfrey 8y ago
kids vs no kids is a massive divide in perspective and concerns
- nomocrypto 8y ago
  Did I say I didn’t have kids?
anigbrowl 8y ago
Because it's a non-solution to a well-defined problem that just dumps the externality onto the consumer. Like telling people who are complaining about pollution that they shouldn't live near factories.
- Avamander 8y ago
  Like telling people who are complaining about cavities to brush their teeth more like it.
  - mmt 8y ago
    I wish you had picked an example less fraught with flamewar potential, as this one has the sugar industry and water fluoridation firmly attached.
  - jacobolus 8y ago
    People complaining about cavities should stop eating so much sugar. Brushing their teeth is only a band-aid and doesn’t attack the core problem. And yeah, that means they should probably stop eating processed food with added sugar. Which means they should avoid most of the shelves in the supermarket. It’s a serious problem which goes far beyond personal responsibility. Our whole industrial food system is designed to deliver as much teeth-rotting food [as a bonus, also causes diabetes and heart disease and obesity] to as many consumers as cheaply as possible, while convincing those consumers that there’s nothing wrong. Not only that, we subsidize it heavily using our collective tax money.
- UncleEntity 8y ago
  Dump the responsibility of parenting onto the parents? Inconceivable!
jrnichols 8y ago
have you tried to block kids from YouTube? It's just about impossible. You can completely firewall it off from your home network, block the app, etc, and they'll just go to the library. School. pretty much anywhere. or just grab a friends device that has no such restrictions.

mattsfrey 8y ago

kids vs no kids is a massive divide in perspective and concerns

nomocrypto 8y ago
Did I say I didn’t have kids?

anigbrowl 8y ago

Because it's a non-solution to a well-defined problem that just dumps the externality onto the consumer. Like telling people who are complaining about pollution that they shouldn't live near factories.

Avamander 8y ago
Like telling people who are complaining about cavities to brush their teeth more like it.
- mmt 8y ago
  I wish you had picked an example less fraught with flamewar potential, as this one has the sugar industry and water fluoridation firmly attached.
- jacobolus 8y ago
  People complaining about cavities should stop eating so much sugar. Brushing their teeth is only a band-aid and doesn’t attack the core problem. And yeah, that means they should probably stop eating processed food with added sugar. Which means they should avoid most of the shelves in the supermarket. It’s a serious problem which goes far beyond personal responsibility. Our whole industrial food system is designed to deliver as much teeth-rotting food [as a bonus, also causes diabetes and heart disease and obesity] to as many consumers as cheaply as possible, while convincing those consumers that there’s nothing wrong. Not only that, we subsidize it heavily using our collective tax money.
UncleEntity 8y ago
Dump the responsibility of parenting onto the parents? Inconceivable!

jrnichols 8y ago

have you tried to block kids from YouTube? It's just about impossible. You can completely firewall it off from your home network, block the app, etc, and they'll just go to the library. School. pretty much anywhere. or just grab a friends device that has no such restrictions.