While all of that might be true, YouTube is also a for-profit cesspool of trash content, hate speech, and misinformation. An entire generation of gen z manosphere Nazi bootlickers got where they are watching “gaming videos” on YouTube.

It auto plays by default and their algorithms are dogshit, so you might start watching an educational video with your kid, but end up on a flat earth video fifteen minutes later, or much much worse.

When my son was younger, we severely limited his YouTube time and closely monitored what he was watching on it. Most parents don’t do that.

I dislike legislation like this too, but we’re not talking about PBS or a library here. Kids truly shouldn’t be on YouTube unattended.

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I was thinking the same thing reading the article! It’s a greasy kind of respect, but the hustle is impressive in its audacity. There are 195 recognized countries in the world this dude could have falsely claimed to represent, but he went the extra mile and made up Seborga and West Arctica.

Incredible.

Fuck off with this sea-lioning bullshit. The Nazi salute and AFD promotion were international news.

Seriously, what are you getting out of this? It’s like arguing the sky isn’t blue.

Same. They’ve always done this shit, but installing windows - and then uninstalling or disabling all the cooked-in bloat and spyware - has become so ridiculously tiresome that I just said fuck it and went Linux full-time.

Every update or service pack, it starts all over. There’s no such thing as a clean windows install.

Nobara was up and running in like ten minutes with no fuckery at all, and it’s no nice not having to fight my OS on everything.