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> They really don't have a choice at that volume. Crazy idea - maybe no one should be operating at that volume until they can figure it out?

• vineyardmike 7y ago
  (Are you listening facebook, twitter, et al)
• titzer 7y ago
  The big tech companies fundamentally do not give a crap. Traumatizing young children is a roundoff error in their calculus.
• matz1 7y ago
  No, just because some kids are harmed so they should not operate at all? Thats crazy.
  • taurath 7y ago
    Maybe you can't, as a corporation worth 100s of billions of dollars, put it out there as being "for kids", if they don't want to pay to hire a legion of people to deal with what they can't scale. They don't get to reap the benefits and redistribute the costs.
    • bduerst 7y ago
      Corporations (billions in revenue or otherwise) are not good substitutes for parenting. If you don't want your kids on a product, then supervise them. Don't ban the product for everyone who can use it responsibly.
      • taurath 7y ago
        Use it responsibly? Are you talking about people uploading creepy videos targeted to kids, or like alcohol or something? I'm certainly not one to say everything should be as safe as possible for kids, but there's a limit to what a parent can reasonably be expected to understand. If I set my kid up watching a blues clues clip, and look away for 30 seconds and he's seeing a clown with its arm torn off which autoplayed, I feel like I'm reasonably kinda entitled to go hey wtf google, your shit is broken and its harmed my kid. And then, of course, not let my kid use youtube anymore.
      • zadokshi 7y ago
        It sounds like you are ignorant of the problem here. YouTube throws up videos to children that look good until you get to the second of the video some psychopath has spliced into it. It’s literally not possible to safely put your kid in front of YouTube unless you have pre watched every video YouTube might potentially auto services up to your 3yo
  • titzer 7y ago
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veMiNQifZcM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veMiNQifZcM
  • loco5niner 7y ago
    If they were building kids playgrounds and kids are randomly getting hurt... yes. They should not be operating in_that_arena.
• topmonk 7y ago
  Lets shut the internet down! Think of the children...
  • Dylan16807 7y ago
    Not 'the internet'. The current version of the app that's marketed as for kids.
    • topmonk 7y ago
      We can't allow any children to see any inappropriate content! Lets keep banning things until we make that true!
      • Dylan16807 7y ago
        Nobody's banning it. They can go to normal youtube if their parents let them. You're tilting at windmills.
        • topmonk 7y ago
          Oh I'm sure the law will be written in such a way that it'll be super easy to comply. Barely an inconvenience! It won't stifle communication on the internet at all. Trust us.
          • meheleventyone 7y ago
            What law? I think most people are suggesting Google do this without the requirement of regulation to force them.
            • topmonk 7y ago
              Sometimes I like to write my grievances on a slip of paper, and put it in a bottle. Then I throw the bottle into the ocean. I hope someday someone will read it.
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• kmlx 7y ago
  here's another crazy idea: if you're just going to hand over your kids to youtube then maybe your parenting priorities are missing.
  • dlp211 7y ago
    I'm gonna strawman here real quick with a metal observation: HN: parents need to stop being helicopter parents and kids need to have independence to grow in order to be functional adults, otherwise you're a shitty parent Also HN: parents need to know everything their child does and know what they are watching at all times, otherwise you're a shitty parent