Mason 🏃‍♂️✂️ on Twitter: "I actually spent some time a while back looking into this, and my conclusion was that "Youtube is radicalizing everyone" is an almost entirely manufactured meme that fed a lot of tribal interests too well to fail… https://t.co/FmDxdeayMD"

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This was my experience. As a preteen and teenager, I was teaching myself web crafting and actual programming (C++, PHP, a dash of JS). But I was only allowed 30 min of programming or 30 min of TV. Drove me crazy!

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I had to disable a net nanny, which I wish I could say required mAd hAX. I actually just persuaded an adult friend in Singapore to walk me through a troubleshooting process until we cracked it

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I can't pretend that my online activities were kosher even then, I can't imagine what a set of perfectly nice parents would do with a child like me todayhttps://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/970028880986652672?s=20 …

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Tbh, mom had reasons to try to childproof the web. As an actual child I used to bait adults in AOL chat rooms into sexting me & then tell them I was law enforcement. The sociopathy faded but my general aesthetic for evil has remained largely unchanged

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Austen Lamacraft‏ @AustenLamacraft Apr 13

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Some kids will watch quantum mechanics lectures or knitting tutorials some of the time. But a lot of time is spent watching actual crap on youtube, which is kind of weaponised television

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"Quantum mechanics lectures" are absolute trash if a child isn't particularly interested in them. Virtually anything they would choose themselves would be a better use of their time.

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In my life I've learned about 8,000 times more by exploring my whimsical interests of the moment than through any forced lecture or involuntary project.

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I'm certainly not talking about anything involuntary. Agency is the holy grail, isn't it? But I'd rather have no youtube than no agency.

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Unsupervised Youtube does seem dangerous for kids. Youtube's algorithms lean heavily toward exploitative clown shit that seems guaranteed to make kids incredibly stupid. Within an hour of following suggested vids from quantum mechanics, a kid will end up at Logan Paul.

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Mason ‏ @webdevMason Apr 14

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I'm assuming you actually believe the sentiment behind this — Why? Where did you first hear it, or from whom? What's your experience with Youtube search/recommendations, and how would you change it?

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I actually spent some time a while back looking into this, and my conclusion was that "Youtube is radicalizing everyone" is an almost entirely manufactured meme that fed a lot of tribal interests too well to fail

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  The problem is the opposite: it's mostly a depressant not a stimulant (and by mostly I mean by pure weight of content)
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