Kid content on YouTube and TikTok can be extremly disturbing, even for an adult. Until they turn 16 I intend to vet most media myself on a self-hosted server.
* Initially various Warez sources (KDX , eMule etc) (2000-2005 I think)
* later on liveleak, 4chan, digger (2006-2007? Not sure anymore),
* Then stumble upon, 9gag (08-10)
* finally ending at reddit (2010-2014, that was the year spez edited user comments. Very rarely used it since)
I vividly remember watching pretty fucked up shit back then, like racists executions of teenagers by police officers (South America) and a lot of sexual content, which is pretty disturbing from today's perspective if I don't completely misremember them.If my kid really wants to check it, it might be acceptable, but I'm not ok with an algorithm showing it by surprise.
I'm not alone though, all the childhood people I grew up with that were exposed to this questionable content seem functioning fine now.
Although I would agree that people and especially children shouldn't use TikTok or addictive things like that, but I'm mainly talking about the content specifically.
It seems to me like a way to get your kid to not tell you anything in fear of censorship.
when older millennials were young, it was mostly television, movies, maybe some radio, and maybe some CDs/tapes. and as the previous person said, this was all extremely moderated and you didn't have unlimited access to most anything
Not really executions though, luckily.