The regulation is never meant to “protect” kids. It’s the advertisers, it’s always and only the advertisers.
Comment on YouTube now vs then
Tall_Chilchuck@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What irks me most is the kids content. That should have been a separate site altogether and it’s ridiculous that ‘non-kids’ content gets more strictly regulated for fear they might hear a swear word. Especially considering how much weird shit gets pushed at kids intentionally that youtube doesn’t appear to care about (looking at you elsa-gate).
RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Also that weren’t intended for kids but superficially looked like they were got involuntarily flagged as such and had their comments removed.
A separate site would have been a much better solution.
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
fucking hate that shit, i came to this episode of a tv show i used to watch so i could TALK ABOUT IT IN THE COMMENTS
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Elsa gate is why stuff gets restricted so aggressively nowadays.
CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
What is Elsa gate?
JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
You can go too deep on this one and find people who probably think it’s a conspiracy or something lol, but the gist is that YouTube used to recommend very very odd videos to kids. People picked up on this and made odd videos. It became like a feedback loop I guess. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate I just found the Wikipedia article and I think it does a good job of giving facts about it.
humble_pete_digger@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Used to recommend?
They are still super weird recommendations for kods. We had to take tablet away from my daughter because allowed shows like sheriff labradore are about constant kidnappings, other shows like about children dying from hunger in the woods and other ones I’ve seen about giving birth. All observed just this year.
I also didnt like English language muslim religious show that automatically popped up. Like wth bruh
umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
some weird algorithmic videos people posted because kids would lap that shit up, like pregnant spiderman shit.