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on Tuesday February 26 2019, @05:31PM
from the serious-mental-health-issues dept.
from the serious-mental-health-issues dept.
Tips for committing suicide are appearing in children's cartoons on YouTube and the YouTube Kids app.
YouTube Kids is theoretically a curated collection of videos that are safe for kids. Apparently, someone forgot to tell YouTube/Google that. Sure, YouTube probably has some butt covering clause in their EULA. That doesn't excuse such an oversight, though. It's very easy to see overworked, stressed parents, giving their kids access to YouTube/YouTube Kids. Kids have enough to deal with, without having to deal with grown-ups twisted thoughts. This seems more like insidious minds at work to me. What do you think?
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Suicide Instructions Spliced into Kids’ Cartoons on YouTube and YouTube Kids
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Tuesday February 26 2019, @06:45PM (7 children)
I agree with the point that this is not Darwin at all. This is some sick people. And generally we no longer seem to identify them as sick. Just as trolls or we laugh it off.
The people doing this may not realize how sick it is. They may think it is funny. Like the Tide Pod Challenge. Or a Bottled Water Taste Contest.
Their inability to realize they have crossed a line says something. You don't put suicide instructions into a children's video. What kind of sick person does that?
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @06:56PM
What kind of sick person does that?
Anybody that's interested in mocking the faux outrage coming from the people here and there. Remember the torture and murder your tax dollars buy overseas! And down south... You people elect child killing psychos every two years for *economic growth*. Where's the beef?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday February 26 2019, @07:03PM (1 child)
What is a children's video? Some kids, or perhaps millions of kids, are watching YouTube without any supervision at all. They are coming across all kinds of edgy content.
Here [youtube.com] we have what looks like a Splatoon "machinima" [wikipedia.org] type of video with the offensive green screen clip edited in (not spliced into a random video, but intentionally placed as part of the video). This content managed to sneak into YouTube Kids, a supposedly safer walled garden within YouTube for young children, because GooTube uses dumb machine learning algorithms to do almost everything on the platform.
I would not be surprised if the entire video, complete with the "sideways for attention, longways for results" meme, was created and uploaded by a 12-year-old child.
But yeah, if you are worried about your kids turning weird or dying, keep them far away from the Internet and YouTube. Just search "elsa spiderman" to find some of the disturbing content that is like crack cocaine or heroin for kids.
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(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday February 26 2019, @08:53PM
and then
Those are two unrelated things.
A children's video is intended for an audience of children. That's what a children's video is. Some topics, like putting suicide instructions into a child's video, might be a funny joke for an episode of South Park, but the intended audience of South Park (hopefully) is not children. (And I haven't watched it for over ten years now.)
Letting children roam busy streets or YouTube unsupervised is a lack of parental responsibility.
Also the internet is not a babysitter. Back in the day, a VHS tape could entertain a child for a short time. Today the internet seems to be used for that, but with no upper limit on time. Here's a bright shiny kid's tablet, have fun!
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday February 26 2019, @07:36PM
And generally we no longer seem to identify them as sick. Just as trolls or we laugh it off.
Or, they're just being themselves....
The claim that all the racists on the internet are just pretend trolls suffers from a severe lack of evidence.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 26 2019, @09:48PM
The kind of sick person(s) who hate your country, your standards, your way of life, your values, beliefs, etc. If they can destroy your kids and thus destroy you, they win. They are also the despicable lot who run scams of all sorts by phone, email, letter and want to invade your country, usually disguised as 'refugees'. Also applies at a higher level to state players who want to destabilize you society, democracy, way of life so their side wins (CN, RU, etc). And all these online empires that are accountable to nobody are enabling them to succeed....
(Score: 3, Insightful) by driverless on Wednesday February 27 2019, @01:22AM (1 child)
Which kid would even recognise what they were, let alone act on them?
Someone trolling for instant outrage and mass media coverage.
It's worked brilliantly, hasn't it?
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday February 27 2019, @02:44PM
That would not invalidate that assertion that they are sick people.
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