YouTube is poison for children, no matter how they try to present it. There’s plenty of good content, but no way is my son watching anything on there without me sitting right there with him
Yeah, there’s tonnes of good content on there, but as you allude to, there’s even more shitty or zero effort content… And the algorithm has a way of serving up absolute trash. And the parental controls are pretty much non existent…
Youtube happily serves up videos to an 8 year old (on a supervised children’s account) that contain topics like abuse, sex, racism, horror, radical religious indoctrination, Chinese propaganda, and human centipede… This isn’t as rampant in the YouTube Kids app… But at least half the stuff on YouTube Kids is ASMR content or unboxing “surprise” toys…
YouTube allows you to block channels, but will happily continue serving the 9000 other accounts that simply reupload the same exact videos.
YouTube is poison for children, no matter how they try to present it. There’s plenty of good content, but no way is my son watching anything on there without me sitting right there with him
Yeah, there’s tonnes of good content on there, but as you allude to, there’s even more shitty or zero effort content… And the algorithm has a way of serving up absolute trash. And the parental controls are pretty much non existent…
Youtube happily serves up videos to an 8 year old (on a supervised children’s account) that contain topics like abuse, sex, racism, horror, radical religious indoctrination, Chinese propaganda, and human centipede… This isn’t as rampant in the YouTube Kids app… But at least half the stuff on YouTube Kids is ASMR content or unboxing “surprise” toys…
YouTube allows you to block channels, but will happily continue serving the 9000 other accounts that simply reupload the same exact videos.