YouTube Kids app has sex, drugs, and program-length ads, advocacy groups say
http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/05/youtube-kids-app-has-sex-drugs-and-program-length-ads-advocacy-groups-say/ On Tuesday, the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC) and the Center for Digital Democracy sent a letter and a video to the Federal Trade Commission, documenting a search that the groups did in the YouTube Kids app on May 5. The letter is a follow-up to an FTC complaint that the CCFC filed back in April alleging that the YouTube Kids app mixes branded channels from companies like McDonald's, Mattel, and Fisher-Price too freely with real children's programming. The app's features "take advantage of children's developmental vulnerabilities and violate long-standing media and advertising safeguards that protect children viewing television," the CCFC wrote in April. - - - I'm enormously irked by these complaints. The groups would prefer that kids use unrestricted YouTube search? You can even turn off search for kids if you want. What we have here of course, is "parents groups" who aren't really interested in taking responsibility for their children's use of the Net, they just want electronic "babysitters" that are 100% foolproof. Either take responsibility for how your children spend their time, or please, stop complaining about great efforts like this YouTube project. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
