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YouTube to restrict teenagers' exposure to videos about weight and fitness
- cebert 2y agoA lot of teenagers are active in sports. Having access to fitness content covering proper technical is a good thing.
- quantified 2y agoAbsolutely. The way Youtube works is that if you watch one or two videos on some topic, you get flooded with more and more, with some quite sketchy. "Proper technical" and "eat bath salts to get ripped" are all in the same basket. Probably kids should get "the talk" on media literacy instead of a giant content system making artbitrary decisions on their behalf.
- proc0 2y agoThis is bad problem solving in my opinion. If this is truly a problem, then there has to be other "rabbit holes" that are damaging kids and teenagers. Anything from stunts to weird challenges and pranks could have similar effects. I suspect the root cause is the algorithm itself in the hands of impulsive minds that don't have their prefrontal cortex fully developed. If I'm cynical then I would say this is a pretend solution so that governments don't ask for the full removal of kids and teenagers from these addictive behavior of watching content online. That would be the moral direction in which this should go, or alternatively there would be a different suggestion algorithm for children, not just filters but something less aggressive that would incentivize less usage, but it seems big tech wants as much usage as possible even if it has long term societal consequences.
- jarbus 2y agoI’m honestly in support of this, the videos will still remain online and unrestricted, but (hopefully) YouTube will stop shoving constant videos of the world’s most unrealistic bodies to the top of peoples feeds. I’m not bad looking, but it makes me feel so bad about myself when my invidious instance is down, I can’t imagine the mental effect on people who use the default front-end full time.