Comment on YouTube to be included in Australia’s social media ban for children under 16
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
The trend of using child abuse as argument to implement media control mechanisms, is dangerous for society. There, i said it.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
I was thinking about this being wrong. But then I realized that parents can still grant access to YT for their children. However the unattended restriction age should be lower imo.
The problem is too many parents not supervising their children at all, and letting the algo make them go down in a truly despicable pile of shit of auto-play queues. My oldest one is six, and if I leave her alone on her tablet or the family room TV with YT, setting her on a path of kpop dance practice videos or some popular non-english kids show, if I check back half an hour later, sure enough the thematic changes from (likely with the help of recommended videos as well) to mindless marble/magnet builder videos, some yanky animated minecraft story or even worse.
So now imagine a kid that gets no supervision at all, and an impressionable youth without critical thinking is seeking answers and then believes whatever they are told by a late millennial just saying bogus shit for the views.
I am not sure what the right solution is, and this may not be it, but at least Australia is trying something. Let’s see how it works out.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
IMHO the best parental control is to disable the recommended videos sidebar on platforms like YT, be it via uBlock element hiding picker or via usercss.