YouTube found to push content about guns to children watching games videos

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Shit like this is how they push for the age verification (which ends up as identity verification).

This is why parents should monitor their children's online activities, along with other activities their kids do.

Yeah. Youtube is prob playing a willing part in propagandizing everyone, and even ok with setting this up intentionally to justify online identification laws. However, that's easy to stop if parents will parent.

[–]chadwickofwv 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That should be obvious. The games are very gun related. Did anyone think watching videos of Rust would get the algorithm to show them videos of kittens? That would be stupid. It recomends videos which are similar, which means channels like garandthumb which teach about guns, including proper handling.