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YouTube Kids App Still Showing Disturbing Videos (bbc.co.uk)
YouTube says it is "very sorry" after more disturbing videos were found on the YouTube Kids app. From a report: BBC's Newsround found several videos not suitable for children, including one showing how to sharpen knives. Another had characters from children's cartoon Paw Patrol on a burning plane. YouTube has been criticised for using algorithms rather than human curators to decide what appears on YouTube Kids. In 2015, two child safety groups complained after disturbing videos were found on the YouTube Kids app. YouTube said it needed to "do more" to tackle inappropriate videos being seen by children. Newsround had arranged for five children to meet Google's Katie O'Donovan. They spoke about distressing videos they had seen on the main YouTube website and app. The videos included images of clowns with blood on them, scary advertisements and messages telling them someone was at their door.
The problem with teaching children useful life skills is that it promotes independence and self-sufficiency.
These are both things that are wholly incompatible with the ideology pushed by the leftists who run the mass media (including social media sites) today.
Leftist ideology requires there to be a large, passive, dependent population that is ruled over by a relatively small leftist elite.
Leftists want people who will need to rely on the state for literally everything, including something as basic as sharpening a knife, assuming the people within such a state are even allowed to possess something like a knife to begin with.
When people learn valuable life skills such as how to perform repairs, how to build stuff on their own, and how to defend themselves from dangerous situations, they quickly realize that they don't need the state, and hence they don't need to depend on the leftist elite.
So it's no wonder that we see leftists try to crush anything that might enable everyday people to be responsible, independent and self-reliant.
Widespread responsibility, independence and self-reliance are among the most harmful things there are to leftism and the leftist narrative, and that's why leftists fight so hard to keep people inept, unskilled, and dependent on the state.