YouTube to be included in Australia’s social media ban for children under 16
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Good. YouTube is a contributor to increasing massive societal polarisation. We don't want kids these days turning to Nazis. Some of the kids and people I grew up with became extremist.
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The trend of using child abuse as argument to implement media control mechanisms, is dangerous for society. There, i said it.
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I would usually say this is bad, but with the ungodly amount of AI generated slop flooding YT this is good actually
I wager it isn't the 16 year olds making this.
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Wonderful. It’s already banned in my household.
You sound fun and I'm sure they're bypassing that...
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Oh boy, it's Online Safety Act 2: Electic Boogaloo! Get ready for:
- Teens downloading Dodgy VPNS.
- YOTI and other ID apps taking out personal info and eventually getting fuckin' hacked.
- Fake ID Apps appearing and just skipping the "Hack YOTI" Stage.
- VPN subs and Tor use to skyrocket.
- The monopolisation of out internet lives into the hands of a few social media companies.
...and much more!
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The trend of using child abuse as argument to implement media control mechanisms, is dangerous for society. There, i said it.
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.
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You sound fun and I'm sure they're bypassing that...
They are not.
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They are not.
They are, you just don't know it.
Source: your kids are geniuses when it comes to skirting around rules.
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They are not.
How can you be sure
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They are, you just don't know it.
Source: your kids are geniuses when it comes to skirting around rules.
They are most definitely not. It’s pretty easy to put controls in place/control access to devices.
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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.
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.
And more geneeally, the browser setting a JS signal as well a CSS media query.
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How difficult would it be to mirror most popular youtube channels to peertube if instance operators picked a few channels each and kept them updated?
