Re: Seriously furious!
I saw the docu as well. Quite sad to see kids behaving like that, but...
1. Blaming youtube isn't helpful... saying they should police things is easy to say, but hard to do in practice... do we blame google for indexing inappropriate material in their search index? I don't, because I know that noticing something is inappropriate is a difficult, hard and costly problem. I'm sure they do all they can to limit them, but it's not an easy problem.
Considering the massive volume of videos on youtube, what do they do? Pay people to watch them all and censor them? That would be a massive undertaking. Videos are probably uploaded at a rate faster than an army of workers can watch them all.
2. Blaming blue chip companies for advertising on websites is just misunderstanding how online advertising works. The companies highlighted in the docu wouldn't have any clue whatsoever what websites they are on. Anyone can find adverts for big companies on some network somewhere that doesn't bother approving websites.
It's a sad fact some people take pleasure in watching people in pain. If they weren't uploading sick videos to youtube they'd be emailing them to each other, or something else.
Technology can always always be used for good and bad. Blaming it when people abuse it isn't good in my opinion. Better to blame the people for being sick/stupid.
And in this case of course their parents for bringing them up without any morals.
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