Der Ärger von Abgeordneten und Kollegen über YouTube, da das Unternehmen in Werbespots die U-Bahn-Station Westminster verputzt und Eltern darauf hinweist, dass es in ihrer Verantwortung liegt, die Bildschirmzeit zu begrenzen
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15886603/MPs-peers-anger-YouTube-firm-plasters-Westminster-tube-station-adverts-telling-parents-responsibility-restrict-screen-time.html
Von TheEternalContrarian
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I’d just be happy if YouTube would let you password your account on a smart TV. I have child profiles setup, with pre-approved content for my kids to watch, but they always use my profile since it’s unrestricted
Why would they be angry? They want these restrictions and YouTube is simply saying “they already exist. You just need to do your job as a parent.”
MPs: „How dare you! Don’t you know we’ve got an agenda to force through here!?“
Oh noes, holding parents responsible for parenting their own children!? What a travesty! Don’t you know only the government should have that power? Kier is now everyone’s dad, but the deadbeat still won’t pay child support.
Silly Google, suggesting parents should take responsibility for their kids, instead of shoving an iPhone into their hands when they’re 9 years old and outsourcing all parental responsibility to government ministers and tech companies.
I thought there were all for protecting the kids 🧐 how peculiar
Great move by you tube. We have to stop legislating for things we as individuals and as a Community should be tackling with a modicum of effort
*“They hated him, for he told them the truth”*
It is entirely possible for parents to limit their children’s access to screens and social media, they just have to grow a spine and be a parent, and put in some actual effort, for once.
But it seems that the current generation of parents are lazy invertebrates.
Well it is our job as parents to sort this out. I have educated my 11 year old daughter enough about the perils of the internet . If she sways away from what we agree on, it gets turned off. As for the government, they dont have a clue what they are talking about. They are asking for changes that are actually hard to fix. Obviously it’s all Elon Musks fault again.
This is what the government should be plastering around everywhere. But they’re annoyed the tech firms are now trying to protect the kids? I’m confused
I don’t know why these adverts would make people angry, however I do think it’s not as simple as “parents should just be better parents”.
Most parents probably are restricting what their children watch etc but the problem is if a minority of parents aren’t then that still affects everyone. It affects the child who has to suffer because their parents haven’t given them limits. It affects the children who they go to school with when they bring in their own devices and show the other children at school what they’ve seen or tell them about it.
I’m not saying I agree with any particular laws being proposed. I’m saying it can’t be simplified to “just control what your kid watches” because you can’t be with your kid all the time (eg when they are at school) and you can’t control what other parents let their kids do.
It’s about time parents invested time in being parents; instead of spending so much time YouTube et al
Its useful as an educational advert to be honest, parents need to hear this frankly and act on it. It ultimately is their responsibility.
But also its fairly obvious that no parent has total control over what their child does on the web, and tech needs to do more to protect children from ooverdosing on their addictive algorithms.
Ultimately i think the correct solution is to provide kids with more fun opportunities locally than trying to hammer down on big tech. Our local public skateparks, beaches, playgrounds and sports fields/courts are crammed with kids all day – but i know not every area has these facilities. That needs to change.
I can turn off YouTube shorts for myself? Amazing. That’s not a parental management feature that’s plain QoL improvement.
Can’t believe I’m siding with a multinational corporation on social issues, but they’re right
Parents need to parent, outrageous stuff
No such thing as personal responsibility in this country.
Isn’t feed limits a feature the MPs are asking Youtube and others to implement?
But Daily Mail tho, are the MP actually angry about these ads, or they strung together some general comments to make click bait?
How fucking lazy can you be that you run an ad campaign in 1 station just so MPs see it.
I mean really? You’re not even pretending to get this message out to the wider public
They are not wrong though. It was the same argument made about violent video games and movies too. Social media sites are far from perfect and there is a lot to criticise them for, however they are right when they say the ultimate responsibility still lays with the parents. The dangers of social media have been obvious, known and talked about ad nauseum for years now. A lot of parents today even used social media in its early days and saw the changes that happened post 2010, where it very much flipped in its purpose from social media to data harvesting. To claim ignorance in 2026 just does not wash anymore.
>Their Westminster ads have backfired given the reaction of the MPs who are parents that I’ve spoken to – once again we’re being told to solve the problem app by app on our own.’ Fellow backbencher Fleur Anderson said: ‘Parents are fed up with tech companies not taking responsibility.
When did parents become so comfortable leaving the actual work of parenting to the state?
That’s crazy that they think parents should own responsibility for their children. In this day and age?! Mental.
Well, it is the job of the parents to, you know, be a parent rather than just expecting society to moderate their kids for them.
Lazy parents are what is causing this mess that affects all us adults too. Why do we have to prove our bloody age everywhere now because some lazy shits of parents can’t be arsed to raise their kids right?
MPs are angry because they are allergic to the truth it seems
Why is it a blanket ban and not investment in tools for parents to restrict what their children see?
How the fuck have we got to the point where parents are not actually parenting anymore?
Like genuinely how have we managed to get to this point? The amount of kids and when I say kids I mean like from 6 up till 10 are walking around with iPhones?… Please tell me why the fuck a 7-year-old needs an iPhone 🤔
The next generation are completely cooked
MP’s and peers‘ angry at YouTube for stating the facts
This is what I like to see. Additionally I think if censorship comes in then they should block the „offending“ content by blurring it, or with static black/white images informing users the UK government has ordered them to block it. Show people the amount of things we’re missing instead of just hiding it like reddit had done.