My rant about Censorship
Well, this is a terrible way to celebrate YouTube's 20th anniversary. If you are one of those people who complain about how this website has gone downhill will things are about to get worse. For those of you who don't know, on August 13, YouTube will have a new age restriction system where an AI algorithm will determine your age based on what you watch on the site. If it thinks you're underage, you have to show your ID, your picture, or your SS card to verify yourself. This is already implemented in the U.K., and it will be implemented on other sites like Spotify.
People in power need a hobby because they have too much time on their hands. First, you want to censor games (even though AO games don't get promoted), then Texas wants to censor anime, and now this. YouTube already has age restrictions. What's wrong with that? Speaking of that, it went overboard, I mean, the site put an age restriction on videos of the news covering fights and women dangling their shoes. Really?
If you believe the rhetoric of this is done to protect kids, you're a fool. There are so many reasons why this is BS. First of all, why didn't you protect Millennials from Chunky?
My editor: Come on, that's not a fair question. Kids like to get scared, remember Goosebumps?
Me: That's the thing no one talked about, how the Goosebumps books or series gave them nightmares. Plus, the recent movie makes the series look goofy.
Kids were the only ones talking about how scary he is, and yet Hollywood keeps making movie after movie with his ugly mug. Movies about killer dolls are not bringing the Horror genre a lot of money, so why do they keep making movies about them? Now there is the Mandela effect with him, where he's not as creepy as we remember. You know what, if you don't think Scarface can carry a Batman movie, then a horror movie of a killer doll shouldn't be greenlit.
Second mass shooting, despite no news report of one happening in two or three years (as far as I know), we've done a bang-up job of protecting them from that. I already explained what people can do to stop this from happening; if you're not doing it, then we shouldn't make a big deal about mass shootings. What about protecting kids from their parents? I mean, I'm tired of seeing a certain group of women traumatizing their kids by getting arrested or manhandled in front of them for no reason. Why don't you pass a bill that says if you want to be a parent, you have to undergo a psych evaluation or take a parenting class? What about kids who are homeless and being trafficked? What are you doing to protect them from that?
I can't believe you will draw the line with kids being exposed to inappropriate images and not the other things I mentioned. Last I checked, monitoring what kids should or shouldn't be exposed to is the parents job! Really, what kids should or shouldn't be exposed to is debatable, but I digress. This is why our youth is messed up, because people are not doing their part or overstepping their boundaries. I already talked about how teachers and parents do this to each other, so I'm not going to repeat myself. Speaking of teachers, they talk about how kids can't read. I know they don't care about that because that's what they wanted, I mean, people smart enough to do their job but not question or rival the hierarchy. If I'm wrong about that, what are you going to do to fix that?
To the people who agree with the AI algorithm, how will you protect the user's information? YouTube is not above being hacked; look at what happened to the Tea app. Heck, you can't protect us from spam calls or emails. You don't think this will encourage more identity theft? Just admit that you're doing this to sell our info. What about music that has more influence over anyone than what you watch or see. What are you doing about the other music sites?
Bottom line is this; stop messing with the human experience or nature. Getting in trouble comes with the territory. We bond by talking about doing things that we shouldn't have done. When I was growing up, there was a porn channel on cable. I didn't know what it was at the time because the picture was fuzzy. To the people who did things that they shouldn't have done, growing up, did it ruin your life? If the answer is no, then that's my point. I mean, you can't tell people to work past their childhood trauma and then give them a backhanded compliment by making a big deal about it after the fact. If we can work past our trauma, then losing our innocence is not that bad. I'm not saying we shouldn't protect our youth's innocence, but you can't keep flip-flopping.
I hope this censorship nonsense blows up in their face. Then again, I was wrong about Nintendo Switch 2 being the lowest-selling console. That's all I have to say about this subject for now.