Why Doesn't 'Google Kids' Exist?

theodp writes "Slate's Michael Agger wishes there was a website his 6-year-old son could visit on his own to watch amateur Star Wars Lego movies and other stuff he's curious about. 'But I don't leave him alone on YouTube,' he laments, 'because I never know if some strange-ass video will appear in the 'Related Videos' section.' Agger suggests that Google should create Google Kids, a search engine that filters the Web for children. 'Think back to when you were a kid and your parents dropped you off at the library,' explains Agger. 'In the children's section, the only "inappropriate" stuff to be found was Judy Blume's Forever, which someone's older sister had usually already checked out anyway. Similarly, Google Kids would be a sort of children's section of the Web, focused on providing high-quality results based on age.'"

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society is composed of many people not least of which are families. families, unlike people without kids, represent the future of the country. as such, i would assert to you that the needs and rights of families outweighs your concerns. simply because your concerns have no future, since you have no kids

there is arguing about idealistic concepts in a vacuum of real world needs and wants

then there is the brutal reality of the situation

and the brutal reality of the situation is that without the breeders you obviously have contempt for, there is no future. you have to make peace with that fact, because it obviously goes against your way of thinking, yet is a fact which trumps your arguments: since you have no kids, your way of thinking has no future, and therefore deserves to be discounted. not logically discounted. naturally discounted. we aren't abstract thoughts in a cloud. we are biological vessels with expiration dates. this cold hard brutal fact represents a fundamental need of society that must be accommodated, or the society simply has no future

what do you value in life? well, without kids, those values will not survive in this world, and therefore have no future: brutal, but truthful

i know my opinion will not be popular on a site of asocial nerds, but i firmly believe that those who have children deserve more accommodation in society, simply because they are shouldering society's future. while others choose to be parasites and live off the benefits of society, without contributing to its future by having kids

yes, i am saying you are a second class citizen if you have the financial capacity to have kids, but choose not to. you don't even need the biological capacity: you can adopt. you don't need a heterosexual orientation: loving gay couples make great parents to tens of thousands of kids in this country

in modern american society, where parents are expected to work two jobs just to keep from losing the house, outsourcing some of that internet filtering effort is a perfectly valid request. and furthermore, the request will be listened to, since families have the balance of power here, as they should, since without them, there is no future for the country

if you are asking why and how this balance of power is obtained, the answer is simple: without kids, your point of view simply dies. i am not making an idealistic argument. i am referring to brutal truth: for all of your vaunted ideals and high complex abstract thoughts, you are nothing more than a crude biological vessel, and you have an expiration date. and you should give some thought as to your replacement. or otherwise, your thoughts will surely die. ugly, but true. if you have not made the effort to replace your soon to be dust vessel, that's a failure on your part. for now you are simply a point of view without a future, because you have no kids. and so your thinking is not logically discounted, but naturally discounted

the wants and desires of adults with children, to me, are more valid and more worthy of consideration, than the selfish needs and wants of those who can't be bothered to have children, out of whatever pathetic social defect that renders you unable to contribute to a family