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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.
What a moron. Everyone knows the Holocaust didn't happen.
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.
... 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.
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.
Climate change could easily turn parts of the Middle East from dry to a high humidity. The difference is if it's high humidity you can't sweat and die in the shade even if young and healthy. Suddenly vast areas become uninhabitable, and nuclear powers like Pakistan and India are at high risk. No, a bit of ocean rise won't kill people, but turning a nuclear power into a wasteland that then needs to chose between invading other countries or die off, or even just the changing regions that supply food, is almost guaranteed to cause hundreds of thousands or millions of deaths. It could even start a nuclear war. That's why the military has been taking this seriously as a real cause of instability for the last 30 years.
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.
We do it with religion, which is just as ludicrous as snake aliens controlling people through chemtrails and chlorinated water, so either take down all the religious content as well or fucking grow a pair and leave it all up.
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.
Presidents aren't just assassinated by random individuals.....except for McKinley, Garfield, Lincoln(can argue that's technically not random,but it was no great conspiracy), and the attempt on Reagan. So yes, Kennedy most likely was just an assassination by a random, crazy indiviual.
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
>> 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.
One gets around this with actual measurements on the quality and length of life.
It's getting better, and, as long as people are economically free to solve problems, they will be solved faster than they become serious, and conditions will continue to improve.
The error in the so-called Chicken Little warnings was refusing to recognize this process works, and so well you can make predictions with it on the quality and length of life, price of commodities, and so on.
Actual measurements.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
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
Even been to Houston in August?
Kids TV and conspiracy theories are perfect viewing for stoners. Are they screwing up the algorithms?!
They should only allow content from respectable people like Louis Farrakhan!
It issss abssssssolutely a ssssstupid thing to believe.
Kids certainly shouldn't be subjected to the truth about the moon landings.
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.
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.
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.
It was Father.
Power cut out as they approached 40 TeV, the room got super cold, and when power was restored Father was gone. In the chair were Father's clothes and effects. If you don't know who "Father" was, or what the LHC is actually doing, you need to wake the fuck up. Remember the recent explosions at the LHC?
I know you clowns won't go look into it, and will instead wallow in your ignorance, so I'll offer you the quickest summary possible:
The people in control of the LHC and CERN are basically replicating Doom (the video game).
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...
Looks clean shaven, possibly mute though.
Security footage here
> 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."
Even if it means more food, changing weather will change where it grows. Once prosperous regions can go infertile, and arid regions fertile. This will cause mass refugee problems and or outright war. That's where the real risk is and why the US millitary has been taking it seriously for 30 years now.