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If I have to sum up everything about kid related entertainment I have read on here, it would be:

- Games of the kind we have played or we like to play now are good.

- The new markets kind of games are totally worst thing ever and steal money.

- Arcades and collectible card games we used to spend all our money into were totally different thing.

- The kiddy shows we grew up with were best thing ever. Nothing beats them and they have no fault.

- New shows targeted at kids are all totally boring. All the kids being into them are wrong and don't have fun.

- If current world contains something inappropriate or dangerous that did not existed before, it is outrage and needs to be stopped.

- However, the loss old inappropriate or downright dangerous things we grew up with will harm humanity forever. It is outrage that kids today have everything sanitized. Except stuff from the previous point that should not exist.

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Hypocrisy in itself doesn’t invalidate the point about the modern entertainment stuff being problematic. Even if what we grew up with had its own problems.

I was not pointing to hypocrisy. I was pointing to nostalgia and catastrophization being primary drivers of these discussions.

The most unbelievable thing about this site is to me the inability of users to recognize their language and aversion to, well, everything, is the same carbon copied rhetoric every generation has used to deride the technological Boogeyman of the day.

I take your point, but isn’t it possible that every generation was right because they feared that one day we’d go too far and weren’t sure if we were at that point yet?

And one day, we may go too far. We might have already.

I think that some complains about new generations are valid others are not. And as I had own kids I realized that when parents or teachers see an issue, they talk about, comment on it and then try to fix the issue. So sometimes, the observation is actually correct, but it makes adults to work on fixing it and sometimes they succeed. Some generations are more violent then others, some generations have more substance abuse issues. All generations are adjusting to the world they live in.

Moreover, in every single time and generation, you had mix of adults who had many different opinions on generations. One guy writing on the wall at the ancient Rome does not even implies all that much about general opinion of people in Rome.

But, "youtube bad" is not even complain about generation.

I’m sorry I don’t understand how your comment relates to the topic of different generations judging ‘newer’ technology to be somehow more dangerous.

There’s a distinct lack of Neil Postman in this HN comment section. given the arguments being made in favor of YouTube here, his most relevant retort would be “educational television doesn’t teach children to love learning, it teaches them to love television.”

It’s in some way the blind leading the blind; television and smartphone addicted parents rationalizing why it’s ok for their kids to be YouTube and IPad addicted.

Can't the other side of that coin be true?

Luddites ranting about the impending of society as a result of the latest tech?

The tech is a tool. Your example is key. I don't shove the educational tools at the kids and expect magic. I ask them what they're using it for.

The issue isn't the tech. It's the inherent generational superiority and absentee parenting.

You missed: Youtube is teaching your kids white nationalism.

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