Just thought I would share.. while I’m sure almost everyone here is aware YouTube is poison.. a family member got my daughter a kids tablet that is mainly math and reading games, and just other games you can play.. however kids YouTube is an app on this device.. so I clicked on it to see what it had on there.
For the kids YouTube age 9-12 setting, the very first video was explaining genders… the first damn vidoe.
If you look at the ages 5-8 setting it didn’t populate on the main page, but if you searched the word “gender” about 75% of the videos were gender reveal parties, but you better believe the other 25% were explaining genders, the genders of different cultures, names and genders don’t always match..
Anyways, I was disgusted.. and while I assume most here would automatically shut down any form of YouTube, the “kids YouTube” is just another indoctrination tool. This crap should be illegal.
There are conservative apps programs for kids like Minno and Yippie. We looked into one of these and the cost was around $40 per year.
We currenlty have youtube kids but we have to lock it down with custom parental controls. Even with the controls in place, you really have to keep a good eye on what they watch.
It's a shame that it has come down to this. However, it is good that people are waking up and beginning to research what is being fed to our youth through the interwebs.