![]() ![]() The details of that Medium post escape me now I more or less stopped reading and started hyperventilating after, “Someone or something or some combination of people and things is using YouTube to systematically frighten, traumatise, and abuse children, automatically and at scale, and it forces me to question my own beliefs about the internet, at every level.” (The phrase “some combination of people and things” was especially harrowing.) My kids didn’t exactly buy the YouTube shutdown story, but they know enough to leave it alone, mostly. But then Daddy read 20 percent of a terrifying Medium article titled “Something is wrong on the internet” about how sadists, Russian bots, or the like were sneaking violent and disturbing imagery past YouTube’s filters, whereupon Daddy informed the kids that the site had shut down, immediately, forever. I say taboo because my two sons, 7 and 5, used to occasionally watch Peppa Pig episodes, Mickey Mouse shorts, and Mario Party boss compilations there. “ YOUTUBE!” my youngest blurted out after catching a glimpse of the familiar taboo red logo during the new blockbuster Disney movie Ralph Breaks the Internet. ![]() You haven’t known true fear until you’ve heard your child say the word YouTube. ![]()
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