As a Father of very young kids, I think this is nothing short of emergency. Not only commenting on kids videos should be banned, also youtube should heavily vet and tag all their kids related videos -- these days kids are hooked on watching cartoons and poems on youtube and a lot of times, there are really garbage videos targeting kids just showing little girls buying and playing with make ups, cleaning houses and learning about shopping.
People said the same about the chat rooms we used when we were kids. You could argue that those had much more potential than Youtube comments to lead to actual physical harm. In some cases, bad things really happened. Chris Hansen made a show about it, and police used chat rooms to find pedophiles. But were internet chat rooms ever an "emergency"? Where do we draw the line with bans?
There are family-friendly content creators who diligently police their comments sections who now have their livelihoods severely impacted.
its not only stereotypical or extreme behavior in kids video which I am talking about, its also about banning videos (and people who make them) which really are harming kids today.
Imagine if your kid really enjoys watching crap youtube shows like “Emma Pretend Play”, “Nastya and Baby”, and “Ryan toys review”, what exactly are they telling the kids? That money is meaningless and buy buy buy?
But this is a completely separate point from the topic itself. The content curation of your kids is up to you as the parent. Don't let them watch videos like that if you don't want them to watch them.
With this kind of issue, there are no one "right" line, everyone has their own line. What you can do is, you fight for you line, because if don't other will try to impose their line. That being said, I personally favor no ban whatsoever.
Its not even just about individual actor child predators. Its a parents responsibility to protect their child from harm - that used to just mean making sure they don't get hit by a car or burn their hand on the stove, but nowadays it means shielding them from hostile actors looking to exploit them psychologically and modern society is completely inundated in such actors. Disney, Netflix, Google, etc are all in the business of addicting your kids as a profit center. Their minds are sponges, and its so critical parents realize what you let soak in will hugely influence the person they become. I don't want to fathom how mentally damaged the kids growing up on skinner box mobile games, pregnant Elsa & Spiderman, manipulative social media, and the fruits of billion dollar ad budgets by some of the smartest men alive coming out of Disney will be. It will probably be on similar scale to how many children pre-1980 grew up with regular beatings and resource deprivation by parents leaving them bitter addled adults with endless mental illness.
They aren't going to be any more damaged than the previous generations. Why? Because none of this is new. This kind of manipulation happened and happens all the time in all spheres of life. How do you think religion spread?
The accessibility and availability of screens to glue childrens faces to is totally novel and modern. There used to only be "saturday morning cartoons" because the singular TV in the house was dedicated to content the entire family of all ages could watch the rest of the day. Even at the height of wanton kids "advertising" tv (shows in the 80s like TMNT / He-man / Transformers that were just 30 minute ads for toys) the design of the product was never to totally subsume the child at all hours in the product.
We are seeing substantially more children coming of age now without any social skills or ability to interact with people because they spent all their time glued to screens. They are highly addictive, conditioned to consume, and emotionally stunted. Zombies by any other name, programmed by smart minds through operant conditioning to crave gambling dopamine releases from insanity like loot boxes.
> We are seeing substantially more children coming of age now without any social skills or ability to interact
I would even say that the stubborn refusal to even see a problem here, and the shallow, abstract and disinterested ways in which that is argued, is evidence of pretty hefty damage already inflicted on previous generations.
I won’t let my kid watch YouTube at all. Not when we have people editing peppa pig into being a murderer and listing it as a kids cartoon.
That said blanket disabling of comments on anything that features a kid is stupid. One channel I watch laowhy86 who vlogs about China had all his comments disabled on all his videos because his kid is in the pram during his vlogs.
>also youtube should heavily vet and tag all their kids related videos
Clearly YouTube usage needs adult supervision more than Google trying to moderate comments and blocking specific content from children. I will never work.
