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YouTube Kids Has Videos on How Reptilians Rule the World, Moon Landing Was Fake (gizmodo.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: YouTube Kids, the supposedly child-friendly version of YouTube that's been shown to often play host to troves of slop content and disturbing videos, apparently was showing videos from British conspiracy theorist David Icke, a guy who believes reptilian aliens secretly control the world and are responsible for the Holocaust. According to a Saturday report in Business Insider, searching for the term "UFO" on YouTube kids turned up a video purporting "to show a UFO shooting at a chemtrail." The suggested followups for that video featured a number of Icke's clips, including a nearly five-hour lecture on how aliens built the pyramids and secretly run the planet through a ruling class extraterrestrial-human hybrids. The video also delves into a number of other conspiracy theories, including claims Freemasons indulge in human sacrifice and President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by his own government.
According to Business Insider, "Two other conspiracy theory videos by Icke appeared in the related videos, meaning it was easy for children to quickly go from watching relatively innocent videos about toys to conspiracy content." Searching for the term "moon landing" also resulted in a number of conspiratorial videos emerging, including one making the claim that CERN's Large Hadron Collider had opened a portal to another world that an unfortunate employee then vanished in.
According to Business Insider, "Two other conspiracy theory videos by Icke appeared in the related videos, meaning it was easy for children to quickly go from watching relatively innocent videos about toys to conspiracy content." Searching for the term "moon landing" also resulted in a number of conspiratorial videos emerging, including one making the claim that CERN's Large Hadron Collider had opened a portal to another world that an unfortunate employee then vanished in.
I thought YouTube had already turned their whole website into YouTube Kids by demonetizing anything for adults.
But other things also, to be sure.
What a moron. Everyone knows the Holocaust didn't happen.
That's OK.
In the 90's I once heard someone boast that the Internet is the place where religions go to die...
Little did he know that the Internet is where even more bizarre and unsustainable ideas such as Flat Earth and Lizard rulers go to get new life and willing meme hosts.
Here is a nice sensible documentary:
Shrek saves children from Auschwitz - a Documentary
Santa Claus. Everyone chooses their own lies to tell children. It is a very important aspect of properly raising youth. From an early age it teaches them that everyone will lie to you. After all, studies show most people lie more than they tell the truth.
... Reptilians Rule the World ...
Have you seen photos of our World Leaders and Corporate Overlords? Many of them probably keep really young spouses hostage so they can leech youth from them while they sleep.
Of course, like all reptiles, they love their sunshine.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
The difference between the "alternative" and conspiracy media in the UK and the US outlets like Infowars is that David Icke actually challenges the prevailing political power structure, where Infowars supports and is used by the prevailing political power structure.
This is a complete reversal for conspiracy media in the United States. Until very recently, it was always hostile to those in power. Today, it is the tool of those in power.
You are welcome on my lawn.
they are very entertaining. The best(worst) are the contrail conspiracies.
was real.
At the time, the technology to fake the moon landing didn't even exist.
That, and can you really ask 300-400,000 employees to keep something secret? No.
Why shouldn't the kids see these videos? It's not like it's porn or bloody murder. So they get to see a kook, and their parents get a lot of questions for a week.
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
Google needs to stop being greedy and spend money on staff to vet EVERY video. After all, that service isn't free.
We have "Trump is a Russian Agent" stories 24/7, and people screeching about "millions of people will die" from the sea level going up by an inch over a hundred years. Those are precisely as plausible and responsible as David Ickes lizard people, yet we are intentionally indoctrinating kids about it on a daily basis as a matter of policy
Well, that one is true, or just as likely, assassinated by the mob.... Presidents aren't just randomly assassinated by random individuals. This 'lone wolf' conspiracy theory that you people float is no more valid than any of the other conspiracy theories. You have to at least go with what is plausible if you expect to be taken seriously.
This idea that childen, people are stupid and we have to protect them is bullshit. The only stupid people are stupid people and you sure as hell ain't gonna stop them from being stupid.
Let the majority enjoy the idiot videos, they are fun and entertaining, some of them are like a good schlocky b-movie
And videos on how Liberals want to save us everything they see as evil is a conspiracy? And videos on how conservatives have our best interests in mind on the economy isn't a conspiracy? Holy SHIT! Everything you see in video is a conspiracy theory? Hell even HILLARY was into conspiracy theories - remember "it's a right wing conspiracy!"
Hell how do we know David Icke isn't right? How do we know Trump is REALLY president and not someone else? Heck even the sun shining is a conspiracy theory! You just THINK it is, but it isn't.
The Truth is a Virus!!!
Americans are cattle: easy distracted stupid herd animals.
The problem with Icke is that he constantly speads an ANTI-WAR agenda, with well considered pro-Humanist arguments. The exact opposite of team Blair/Clinton/Merkel/Macron etc.
David Icke is the enemy of all Fabian (named as Ingsoc in Orwell's 1984) organisations, especially the BBC and Guardian newspaper (both of which were at the forefront of pushing Blair's Iraq WMD lies to the planet).
Icke's books are remarkable when you ignore the 10% of colourful fantasy all such thinkers seem to include. But it is the commonplace tactic of the state to ensure this 10% gets all the attention.
Meanwhile Google, the owner of Youtube, has purchased all available military robot design and manufacturing facilities, and is busy on a trillion dollar project to design and build the tank drone forces that are commonly refered to as "teminator-style genocide machines". In other words Icke and Google are on exact opposite sides of the moral spectrum- Google being (as it always has been) pure evil.
On google's 'child friendly' youtube, children are told that Hillary Clinton's holocaust of Libya was a "good thing". Letting you kids access the child-friendly version of youtube is like allowing them to spend time alone with a catholic priest.
You have underestimated the power of... stupid.
I know several Flat Earthers and there is no evidence you can supply them to convince them otherwise. They go so far as to Thank Jesus for revealing the Truth to them.
It seems that just mentioning YouTube in a story automatically conjures up a 15 point drop in the average IQ of its commenters.
Somebody has to get the tots up to speed on how things are done on the internet. I see it as inoculation instead of indoctrination.
>> The difference is if it's high humidity you can't sweat and die in the shade even if young and healthy.
Erm, you mean like a... jungle? Aka the place where you can grow crops/fruit with great productivity ? So ppl have not been living in jungles for milions of years ? And also ever heard of air conditioning?
But could someone check if there are some good videos of Jesus riding a dinosaur in the kids section?
I pretty mush only use youtube for (free) movies, music videos and Russian Car Crash videos.
Good to see legitimately educational videos being made easily available to kids online. It's like vaccination: expose them to just enough stupid for them to build up a sufficient tolerance.
There are no stupid questions, just stupid people.
Instead of removing the conspiracy videos, we need MORE of them.
Remember the Calvin & Hobbes comics, where the dad would make up nonsense about the past - like the world being in black & white until 1950 or so? Well Dads (and uncles) across time have reserved the right to feed kids the most outlandish nonsense about how the universe is or works.
Besides the LOLs, it provides great practical value for the kids as they learn to question EVERYTHING. I just see conspiracy videos playing into that grad tradition.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
These things did carry me to the psychiatric center and take anti-psychotic medicines.
I'm ill for the rest of my life.
In America, some of the alternative media is nationalistic, and anti globalist. Trump happens to fit their views, so they support him.
Kids TV and conspiracy theories are perfect viewing for stoners. Are they screwing up the algorithms?!
"Global warming" = more CO2 = more food.
I love global warming, because I like people getting enough food and not dying of malnutrition (like in communist Venezuela).
YouTubeKids has episodes of G.I.Joe? Sick!
They should only allow content from respectable people like Louis Farrakhan!
It issss abssssssolutely a ssssstupid thing to believe.
This should be a great way to teach kids critical thinking skills. Get them to ask questions, learn about motivations behind videos, maybe even begin to question advertising efforts in the future, etc... Instead, we'll probably see more censorship as the industry continues work to dumb-ify the next generation and control the narrative.
Only a pea-brain would want to censor youtube in any way, shape, or form. You might think that Reptilian Overlords are utter nonsense. I might think that most government propag, er, information is bollocks. Caveat Emptor.
Kids certainly shouldn't be subjected to the truth about the moon landings.
There is some truth in there. I agree with the part about Kennedy being taken out by our own government. And also that the pyramids and other structures around the world were built with the help of aliens (humans using borrowed alien tools to do the actual work on behalf of what they perceived as gods). I dunno about the other stuff, especially the Freemasons. There are, no doubt, some aliens walking among us but I don't think they are doing anything more than zoological studies here.
"When I was a kid"
Mentally you still are. Ever been married or have grown up kids now? No? You're a child.
When I was a kid, "First Men in The Moon," was an excellent documentary about insects inside the Moon that the local TV station ran on Saturday afternoons in the 1970's.
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Mentally you still are. Ever been married or have grown up kids now? No? You're a child.
I have a friend who is on his fourth marriage and fourth set of kids. I guess that would make him a mature adult.
More than you, Chris. You know what AC stands for? Always Chris!
I don't know why this is particularly worrying. There are lots of children's stories that are more horrific and less believable: Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk etc. That's providing you look at the originals and not the heavily sanitized Disney versions.
Most kids are smart enough to realize that the world is not run by reptilian aliens in the same way that they don't worry about running into an evil witch who eats children and lives in a gingerbread house every time they go into a forest. As for the few that are not perhaps it is worth exposing them to this sort of thing while there is an adult around to point out that it is just a fairy story so they can learn that not everything they hear is true.
Since you assume everyone is Chris, maybe AC should be "Always Clueless!"
....invented Youtube Kids to brainwash them!
It's only fair, Chris, you assume everyone is Creimertard! BTW, I think that's a pretty funny word, I wonder if you came up with by yourself?
YouTube Kids, the supposedly child-friendly version of YouTube that's been shown to often play host to troves of slop content and disturbing videos, apparently was showing videos from British conspiracy theorist David Icke, a guy who believes reptilian aliens secretly control the world and are responsible for the Holocaust. According to a Saturday report in Business Insider, searching for the term "UFO" on YouTube kids turned up a video purporting "to show a UFO shooting at a chemtrail." The suggested followups for that video featured a number of Icke's clips, including a nearly five-hour lecture on how aliens built the pyramids and secretly run the planet through a ruling class extraterrestrial-human hybrids. The video also delves into a number of other conspiracy theories, including claims Freemasons indulge in human sacrifice and President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by his own government. According to Business Insider, "Two other conspiracy theory videos by Icke appeared in the related videos, meaning it was easy for children to quickly go from watching relatively innocent videos about toys to conspiracy content." Searching for the term "moon landing" also resulted in a number of conspiratorial videos emerging, including one making the claim that CERN's Large Hadron Collider had opened a portal to another world that an unfortunate employee then vanished in.
I have to wonder if this has anything to do with Google engineers thinking they're more clever than they really are, when it comes to trusting their precious algorithms. Unless of course, someone's doing this stuff manually. But just in case this is the feature and not a bug, that someone at Google / YouTube WANTS kids seeing this kind of stuff, it asks to be answered, and so I shall on a completely unrelated website in the form of a humorous musing:
Reptilians DID rule the Earth, until about 65 million years ago, when the entire planet's population of mega-fauna, a kind of reptile-oid known as the dinosaurs, ran smack right into something we used to call the K-T Boundary, (not sure what they call it now, I think it's been renamed to something else,) a moment in time when the surface of the earth became, ironically, frozen in time, by becoming briefly very hot. The K-T Boundary is also a location in space, in a sense. Though it's all over the planet, in places left untouched by geological action (not subducted into the Earth,) or erosion, forming a thin geological stratum (so a location in terms of where it's deposited vertically in the layers of the Earth,) as a function of time itself. Since then, anyway, reptilians have taken a back-seat to mammals, who have come to dominate the dry parts of the world, at the scale we are ourselves most familiar with.
As for UFOs, there are LOTS of UFOs; I saw one the other day. It was an airplane, but I can't tell you what kind. It was very high up. I certainly couldn't even tell you what company made it, or what company, group, or individual operated it. I can say unequivocally that it was unidentified, at least by me. Probably lots of other people also could not identify it. But I'm pretty sure the men and/or women on board or who paid for its fuel knew EXACTLY what it was, as likely did also, Air Traffic Control, SOMEWHERE. Now as for what most people actually mean when they say "UFO," as in a saucer or other oddly-shaped flying object from some other planet, that's a bit of a laugh. First, let's debunk the "it HAD to be ALIENS" nonsense in a sentence or two. One, just because you can't think of a way for something to happen without "aliens," such as the invention of the magnetron at the heart of a microwave oven, doesn't constitute proof of extra-terrestrial aliens, let alone their coming here at some point, if, that is, you do in fact think that; all it proves is you lack imagination, and are prone to falling for weak arguments. If you learn how things work, you'll find very quickly that humans could EASILY have invented it, withou
Our reign has gone on long enough. Indeed. Summon the meteors.
"including one making the claim that CERN's Large Hadron Collider had opened a portal to another world that an unfortunate employee then vanished in."
A bearded, mute employee?
It's almost as if it would be irresponsible to give your child unmoderated access to the internet
Psychologists all over the world agree that kids need fairy tales.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
The moon landing WAS fake - Joe Rogan said so! Are you calling Joe Rogan a liar?
They need to understand from a very young age that there is a lot of false information on the internet. If they end up watching these videos it's in large parts because they're interested in it. When they find out a few things they've been shown are false, they'll be more likely to start digging deeper for answers.
Stop trying to cover stuff; it only adds credibility to the lie.
I tend to rant.
How is that any worse than the entirety of the mainstream media teaching kids that the NRA kills people?
But this is what offends you. Moon bullshit.
Commies = anti russian. lol.
You Ivanbots are making it too fucking obvious. I see your Dear Leader was 're-elected' lol. Good on you. A trumph for democracy. Cowards.
Just like other libtard sites.
Freedom is popular!
Doesn't sound any crazier than videos of people telling kids that they are born in the wrong bodies and that it can be "corrected" through hormones and cosmetic surgery. I'm looking at you "Queer Kids".
Will you Silicon Valley liberals ever stop your war on Christianity?
We believe in baby Jesus, our personal lord and savior, who, along with his Father, created the Earth in six days, roughly 5,500 years ago, and made it flat so we wouldn't fall off of it. His reptilian angels watch over and protect the righteous from the heathen masses, such as yourselves.
As for the moon landing. How can anyone "land" on a painting in the sky?
Praise his name!
This reptilian aliens theme is not a new theory; remember "V"
;-)
I'd like to propose another hypothesis: Mr Icke, or those promoting his claims, have actually watched that Sci Fi series "V" way back when it ran.
And, this hypothesis further proposes that Icke was intoxicated somehow, so as to suppress his memory of it being a TV series.
The world is actually a simulation based in a computer matrix!
Self-importance and self-indulgence is the root of ALL evil.
I thought we already had our "Trumph" for democracy. And as far as "democracy" goes.. well, hey it really did go. Far far away. But that's OK.. Kids can amuse themselves with David Uckey and his invisible reptilian friends while Trumph keeps "draining the swamp". So which is the bigger pile if steaming bull droppings, anyways? If i had to choose i think I'd rather show my kids Yuckey than Trumpet.. Now the moon thing, though...
You root for a man he thinks sleeping with children is fine. Nice.
"You root for a man he thinks"
Chris, what kind of word salad is this?
Half of this thread is Creimer talking to himself lol. He's the new APK.
"including a nearly five-hour lecture on how aliens built the pyramids and secretly run the planet through a ruling class extraterrestrial-human hybrids", which is far less time than it takes to watch all 10 seasons of SG-1. Dr. Daniel Jackson would be proud.
"CERN's Large Hadron Collider had opened a portal to another world that an unfortunate employee then vanished in." Hopefully Gordon Freeman remembered his crowbar this time.
> the claim that CERN's Large Hadron Collider had opened a portal to another world that an unfortunate employee then vanished in.
Was his name, per chance, Gordon Freeman?
-- "This world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel."
Reptiians DO rule the world and moon landing was faked!