I was driving the carpool+1 home yesterday and the kids were talking about Youtube. Every next sentence from Frost these days is "did you see THAT on youtube?" or "this on Youtube?" In the middle of the conversation it veered off into "Youtube is really inappropriate. They should have a way to lock it or something."
I interuppted to ask what was inappropriate about it. The answer was "its got SEXY things on it" (this is from 7 and 8 year olds) and we don't want to see it.
"Theres lots of inappropriate things on Youtube like Ads by Google = some of them say like "hottest geeky girls" and "see the worst car crash videos" and once I found a domino video that was called "HOLY CRAPS" why did someone call it THAT? To make it inappropriate?"
"Have you ever opened an inappropriate one by mistake?"
"No. We've just looked at the sort of bloody stick figure bashing and jumping off a cliff videos - Stick Stair Stunt and its a little video and we watched Animator versus Animation 1 and 2. Those are not the inappropriate ones.... those are the ones WE watch."
"What kind does Alex like?"
"Alex and me don't watch Youtube"
"And Eve?"
"Well, at Eve's we were watching songs by a band called Aqua and they were guys dancing around doing stuff. One was caused Dr Jones, one was Lollipop when people are just dancing around in space doing stuff. That's not inappropriate but Jaxie thought it was."
"So the real problem is the ads by Google and the links to search suggestions on the sidebar?"
"Yes, Youtube and Google give us inappropriate links"
"What do you think you would see if you did click those links?"
"If I clicked those links it would be a test to see who your girlfriend is and you might get to know about these hot sexy girls. GOD!!!" [exasperated look] They are JUST CRAPPY ADS. You should make them stop."
"So, I shall ask Daddy to figure out how to put on Safesearch."
"YES!"
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