Comment by phreack | Hacker News Reader

Comment by phreack | Hacker News Reader

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I'm sure this is already happening. I've caught some acquaintances' kids running around watching YouTube on their phones and the funnel gets them watching the most bizarre, awful, poisonous content you can't even imagine. It's absolute nonsense that has got to be generated by AI narrated by computer generated voices and featuring loose knockoffs of popular characters running around in weirdly random directions (mostly farm animals).

It's very scary how violent these kids get when I take it away from them, who are otherwise the sweetest. I'm afraid of how their generation is going to turn out after being so attacked by the media they unwittingly consume in their childhood.

Parents and govt have to clamp down hard and fast on this shit or there's going to be issues. Major major issues. It's not 'a mistake' that 'the algorithms' teach American kids to smash up their schools, it's cyberwarfare and we're losing.

I really thought HN was safe from people blaming “the internet” for school shootings

I'm blaming cyberwarfare operations carried out by foreign adversaries, to be clear. Not some nebulous 'internet.' Targeted and deliberate actions carried out by nameable and identifiable parties.

We're skirting "old man yells at cloud" territory here

For one these videos are hilarious.

on the other hand you wouldn't be bothering them if they went to a museum of surrealist art

If anything blame the parents for not teaching boundaries.

And ultimately:

> It's very scary how violent these kids get when I take it away from them

stop stealing acquaintances' kids' property it's rarely a good look for a grown ass man to sidestep parents.

> It's very scary how violent these kids get when I take it away from them, who are otherwise the sweetest.

Every parent who reads this is getting a full, hearty laugh, thank you.

Surely it can't be worse than Finger Family or other such crap?

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