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YouTube is bastion for grooming and child exploitation through its unprincipled design and lax moderation, and in an attempt to remedy this without shaking pare
by washadjeffmad 5y ago
YouTube is bastion for grooming and child exploitation through its unprincipled design and lax moderation, and in an attempt to remedy this without shaking parental faith in their child-profit machine, Google has allowed elective disabling of the two most common ways to influence targets and connect abusers to potential victims: the comments section, which does not allow seeing other comments by a user, and playlists, which can be made private and shared, coordinated, and extended on external mediums.
You didn't miss anything they didn't want you to miss. Massive companies like Google with social media products can afford lawyers, PR and marketing teams, and experts on human behaviors. The ad era brings in phenomenal wealth, but can we all bear the cost?
- saganus 5y agoI can understand disabling the comments section, but for playlists I would've expected that you could only make playlists with all videos from the kids section, or if you add a kids video to a regular playlist, then that playlist can't be played in YT Kids. But not being able to add a kids video to my own playlist, being an adult and such, seems... incoherent.