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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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Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the feeling passes.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 27 2019, @12:25AM (1 child)
When they grow up, kids today won't be able to afford health care, there won't be any jobs for them, anything they learn in school will be obsolete a few years after they graduate, they can forget about any kind of retirement, as much as they pretend there won't be any imaginary sky fairy to save them, and in all likelihood this is step one in Google's AI taking over the world.
It's just preparing them for the future.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 27 2019, @01:52AM
This is how boomers live with themselves. They've stolen their children's birthright but they still indulge their parental instincts and worry on behalf of others just as long as it's not too much work and they feed good after doing it.