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I grew up with libraries and video stores for access to analogous materials and didn't have regular internet access until 1999. I really don't see why it's reas

by z0r 5y ago

I grew up with libraries and video stores for access to analogous materials and didn't have regular internet access until 1999. I really don't see why it's reasonable to expect the internet to supplant parenting duties that would have been reasonably expected in the pre-Youtube state of affairs. If you want to control what your kids see, don't let them have internet access. This is simply reality. I know that from the time I got internet access, I began to see things that would horrify my parents on a semi-regular basis that they didn't know about. (I had an SA forums account.)

Spivak 5y ago
This isn't supplanting parenting duties, it's giving parents the tools to actually parent. Without this your options are basically no YouTube access at all or full YouTube access with zero granularity in-between. The default for logged-out people has to be restrictive or else it's trivial to bypass. The current rules for porn, alcohol, and mature games are a joke and have been since their inception. Everyone being born on Jan 1 1901 is a meme at this point. It's checking a regulatory box without actually doing anything and if YouTube tried it they would be raked over the coals. Libraries do restrict the materials that can be checked out by minors and I doubt that counted as supplanting parenting. How else could you give your kid any level of independence without the cooperation of other people?
- thatcat 5y ago
  The restriction previously happened at a device level, moving it to google seems like an elaborate justification to move the default to restrictive and break external video viewers and apps like yt-dl. You should control your kids device and make restrictions there, not place them by default on the entire internet.
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