When I was a kid, I was allowed to watch the cartoons on Saturday morning. At no point — ever, in the entire history of television or parenting — would my parents have to be worried that I was watching ad-ridden content, scam videos, spam AI slop, fake nonsense, etc.
Screen time is not great but it’s widespread. The best we can do is steer it towards better places. We’re not asking YouTube to parent our kids, but rather want it to be as accountable as other media have always been, specifically in its ‘Kids’ app.
If a TV channel back in the day had the kind of crap that YouTube Kids has, it would pay a heavy fine.
Screen time is not great but it’s widespread. The best we can do is steer it towards better places. We’re not asking YouTube to parent our kids, but rather want it to be as accountable as other media have always been, specifically in its ‘Kids’ app.
If a TV channel back in the day had the kind of crap that YouTube Kids has, it would pay a heavy fine.