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Fnord666
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 Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday February 27 2019, @01:07AM (1 child)
And when that gadget gets taken away, those little fuckers start screaming and whining. Even worse, the people I know hand their own phones over to the kids to shut them up. And the second they learn how to use YouTube, it's all over.
There's a reason why people like Bill Gates don't let their kids have gadgets.
(Score: 2) by Apparition on Wednesday February 27 2019, @03:38AM
Yep. The only gadgets I would ever let children of mine have would be an eReader like the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite or Kobo Clara around the age of ten, and a dumb phone when they're around thirteen.