Parents, Here’s How to Make YouTube Kids Safer
Parents, Here’s How to Make YouTube Kids Safer
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
February 28, 20197m 20s
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Show Notes
On Friday, a pediatrician and parenting blogger named Free N. Hess published a post about a series of disturbing videos she found on YouTube Kids, a standalone app that is supposed to make it “safer and simpler” for those under 13 to browse videos online. A number of news outlets quickly picked up on the clips Hess discovered, which included one where Minecraft–inspired characters carry out a school shooting.
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