This Video Says it All:

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Along with this article that delves deeper into this topic:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/05/smartphone-addiction-silicon-valley-dystopia

Thoughts?

Lol the Elsa and Spiderman videos  8-P

I've heard about it. These videos have millions of views too.

Bad parenting.

This Video Says it All:

v9EKV2nSU8w

Along with this article that delves deeper into this topic:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/05/smartphone-addiction-silicon-valley-dystopia

Thoughts?


old news lol but yeah its creepy

This is only the beginning Zelda. This applies to many other social media platforms as well that kids have access too (and the future as well).

Haha you're quite late on that story. This became a huge scandal last year which conducted Youtube to totally revamp the algorhythm of their Youtube kids app and delete a bunch of very succesful channels making tons of money by the medium of this kind of content. It's an issue still very persistent nowadays but at least it isn't nearly as bad as it was like 2 years ago.

There's even a whole Wikipedia article about it
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate

Crazy, sure, but this has absolutely NOTHING on the dark underbelly of the surface web as a whole.

If you want to talk about sheltering your children (if any) from the pervasive filth found online, then consider this: In the ~25 years since the conception of the Internet as we know it, disturbing violent images and footage (most of it authentic, not doctored or photoshopped in any way) are still within' reach for millions of young and vulnerable viewers. It is the parents' responsibility to make sure that their children know what they're getting into, NOT the legal system's. Besides, the legal system has made multiple futile efforts to limit access to gruesome content and almost of all of those efforts have failed.
Now, I'm definitely all for gruesome crime-scene photographs being leaked or released onto SELECT websites that specialize in "shock", "gore" and the realities of death. As a Criminal Justice major, with a keen interest in death-oriented forensics, I peruse such sites from time to time. That sh*t does fascinate me, in a morbid way, to some extent. But the parents ought to take responsibility, and know that not all of the Internet is sanitized for a family-friendly audience. There is a demand for perverse pornography and all-round shocking imagery, so of course there will be supply.

This brings the question; do you guys think the internet should regulated as a public utility? Essentially, a digitalized version of a public forum or a library where free speech & expression (regardless of how gruesome & vile it may seem) should be protected as if it was the government. Because, while in principle I do agree with free speech, even generally unpopular speech, I do feel at a certain point we ironically sacrifice our freedoms & pursuit of happiness in the name of 'free speech'. Leading, of course, to the rise of Fake News (the actual Fake News found on Social Media sites) & bots that massively shrewd a certain narrative.

I agree parents should take the blame & actually parent their kids more effectively, but at what point do we also start to make these powerful institutions like Facebook & YouTube, arguably at just as much as a big influence on civic discourse & the 'marketplace of ideals' as any public forum in real life, accountable for its compliance on this manner?

Crazy, sure, but this has absolutely NOTHING on the dark underbelly of the surface web as a whole.

If you want to talk about sheltering your children (if any) from the pervasive filth found online, then consider this: In the ~25 years since the conception of the Internet as we know it, disturbing violent images and footage (most of it authentic, not doctored or photoshopped in any way) are still within' reach for millions of young and vulnerable viewers. It is the parents' responsibility to make sure that their children know what they're getting into, NOT the legal system's. Besides, the legal system has made multiple futile efforts to limit access to gruesome content and almost of all of those efforts have failed.
Now, I'm definitely all for gruesome crime-scene photographs being leaked or released onto SELECT websites that specialize in "shock", "gore" and the realities of death. As a Criminal Justice major, with a keen interest in death-oriented forensics, I peruse such sites from time to time. That sh*t does fascinate me, in a morbid way, to some extent. But the parents ought to take responsibility, and know that not all of the Internet is sanitized for a family-friendly audience. There is a demand for perverse pornography and all-round shocking imagery, so of course there will be supply.

All interesting and all, but the difference is that, in contrary to your usual vanilla gory stuff found left and right on the web, Elsagate-related stuff were actually promoted on a supposedly kid-friendly app called "Youtube Kids". The double catch is that from a safe distant all of this content seem kid-friendly with the cheap cartoonishness and wacky sound effects.
Now that this problem has been made widely public, awareness should definitely be raised among parents, but they shouldn't be completely blamed on them originally as they were duped by supposedely "safe for kids" spaces.