Laura Trott sagt, es wäre ein „enormer Fehler“, YouTube nicht in das Social-Media-Verbot für unter 16-Jährige einzubeziehen

I’d say no only because with the right tools, YouTube can be exclusively used to teach kids about certain topics in a way they can digest and learn.

YouTube isn’t a social media platform, it’s TV essentially.

I learned to play keyboard and guitar mainly from YouTube videos

Also watch history podcast every day on YouTube

Kids have a right to education and creativity, inspiration, aspiration

YouTube isn’t all bad if you use filters and subscribe to the right content

These guys have lost the plot! We cant just ban everything. How about allow parents to decide what’s safe for their kids? We dont need the government to control every aspect of our lives.

It is entirely possible to use YouTube as a video platform with no account. In fact that’s the ideal way for a child to use it.

Laura Trott can fuck off. Why are the Conservatives jumping on this stupid bandwagon? My little boy uses YouTube kids a lot – it’s brilliant. My older son watches YouTube videos about the games he plays with his friends and sometimes we find things related to topics at school. It’s not the government’s business what we do and I’ll just end up signing in for him which will then bypass the parental controls we currently have in place to protect him. So make him less safe. Thanks very much you dystopian, interfering, micro-managing, ignorant, useless, twats.

I would guess some pollsters have told them this is popular so they shouldn’t oppose it.

This woman is the absolute epitome of not being in the slightest on top of your brief and failing upwards.

YouTube Kids is a thing I would agree there’s no reason to ban that assuming it does what says on the tin. All social networks apart from Twitter are now essentially content driven with creator funds and official channels, it should not be beyond the wit of government and social networks to create age appropriate versions of their apps. But then they might have to face the fact that they are publishers and be held accountable for the content on their platform.

YouTube is the best learning how to do stuff and about stuff resource out there and it’s free. I learnt most of the stuff I do in my job from YouTube, when I was a kid no less! If the education system and the parents aren’t going to foster curiosity, then who will? You just end up with an even more brain-dead generation who can’t do anything for themselves and have no resourcefulness.

They should really make YouTube make a kids version of their app that restricts adult content to create a safe environment…

For anyone wondering what these people are up to!
Think old East Germany.

As Alexander S. said
„We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying too, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying too as well, but they are still lying. In our country, the lie has become not just moral category, but the pillar industry of this country“

I know these grifters in government and the hangers on vie to be thought hard nuts but seriously, is the uk populace so piss weak that they’re letting these frauds walk all over you?

Every single inch you let them take is another mile they’ll snatch – every right you allow them (yes, allow!) them to take with your liberty is a right you will never get back.

Stop being such spineless fucks! if nothing else snotty emails to your MP and refuse to vote for them! Ever since Iraq they know that we might go out on the streets to whine but we’ll keep voting them in so they can keep their snouts in the trough and they can keep whittling away our rights.

and why is LBC being given oxygen? That terrible man who does the breakfast shift was open about LBC being more like Fox News. Why are we letting the propagandists control the narrative?

Letting governments again ripping away more freedom instead of punishing the big corps is an enormous mistake. A mistake that has happened so many times that those corporations know that they can literally kill people and have to face no consequences.

Might as well say „kids get nonced in parks so ban them from going outside“

I don’t get it. Why should under-16s be banned from social media when the biggest consumers of disinfo-slop in Britain are those aged 60 and over? If we’re going to get age apartheid online, might as well force the pensioner and excon class off the internet.

Plus, you’d think that the fact that pogroms in Northern Ireland occurred despite all the censorship and surveillance would somehow make the Starmer government reconsider its stance on online censorship, no?

And I’m commenting on this because, despite I myself not living in the British isles (although I’ve got friends there), I know for a fact that such measures are trial-marshalled in English-speaking countries before spreading to Europe. The under-16s ban is already being proposed among Eurocrats, and it’s unlikely to receive any major pushback since no politician cares about youth rights.

Not that I favor age-based bans of any kind though, the point with over-60s was to illustrate how dumb the measure is in the first place.

I don’t think an outright ban is the answer but some corners of YouTubes can be really dangerous and we do need better ways of protecting young people from the harmful content that is on YouTube. YouTube kids is pretty good for pre-teens (although there is some weird content that starts off seeming kid friendly before taking a very dark turn), but it’s designed for children. By the time young people reach their teens they don’t want to be watching kids TV, they want to watch normal hobby, entertainment, and eductional based content like everyone. Preventing teens from being exposed to extremist or harmful content and stopping the algorithm from sucking them to echo chambers is important though.

So clearly listening to anything that Laura Trott says is an enormous mistake.

The whole point of the social media ban is to keep children from spending all their time wading through thousands of short-form video content, which are more often than not a pile of mind numbing low effort nonsense. In the case of Youtube, surely it would be simple enough to just impliment something that affects shorts only.

What is social media being defined as? There are BBC articles with comments. Should the BBC be banned as well? I haven’t really been following, so I have no idea where the line is being drawn.

Schools use YouTube for teaching resources a lot. This is dumb.