YouTube says it will crack down on bizarre videos targeting children
Unrelated to the news article, but I&#x27;m alarmed that the usual HN balanced-skepticism is largely buried in this thread:<p>Almost no-one has questioned whether these videos are indeed harmful to children.<p>The top comment is a Medium article that sensationalizes these videos to the point where I was afraid the video would destroy my brain a-la Snow Crash.<p>I&#x27;m picking up a lot of &quot;please think of the children&quot; and &quot;you would understand if you had children,&quot; and comments that read like a call-to-arms for a moral outcry.<p>On the other hand, there&#x27;s almost no introspection about what OTHER things (that don&#x27;t make adults strangely uneasy) might still be detrimental to children. if I&#x27;m being uncharitable, I might quote Neil Postman&#x27;s view of Sesame Street: “Parents embraced “Sesame Street” for several reasons, among them that it assuaged their guilt over the fact that they could not or would not restrict their children’s access to television.