Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Youtube Decides to Risk a Myspace Moment and Ban Comments on All Kid Videos" video.

Yes. I think in the long run, that more transparency will be coming. It makes for an incredibly intelligent distribution chain for everything from electrical power to getting your prescriptions delivered to your door. Do you have any idea how hard it is to keep fresh produce on the shelves with minimal waste? You've gotta KNOW how much you're gonna be moving and when. We're amazingly good at those calculations. I think they'll get better at tracking and we'll get better, as citizens, at protecting what's vital. You'll just consider Lifelock part of the cost of independent living. Lifelock or some similar ID protection service/app. But really, isn't a good idea that the Internet generally knows you're more likely to buy a tent than a chiffon dress? I don't mind a quiet banner that goes away and never takes up too much of the screen. It can actually be quite helpful to learn the name of a new outdoor-gear company in the USA. Sears and Roebuck and Montgomery Ward did as much to educate the public as to what was being made out in the world. Things people never even knew existed that they didn't even know they wanted 'til they saw one. But they don't need to know all your identifying information in order to know what ads to shoot your way. All they need is the screen handle. Any kind of purchasing information should be handed off to one outfit that handles your transactions for you, and only they need to know those. Outfits like PayPal, only less regressive. The people I buy from don't need my credit card for PayPal to tell them I'm good for it.
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@Mahaveez : I would think it wouldn't take a huge investment on the part of parents to make the cost of being caught very high and the likelihood of being caught very high. I mean, in a room full of 5-10-yr-olds talking about Barney or Pokemon or whatever kids talk about, these days, a pedophile is gonna stick out like a sore thumb, if they push the pedo or THEIR pedo agenda in any way. A parent can pretty easily monitor what their kids are up to with a good browsing-history that caches all the content, including the chats and asynchronous comment sections. The younger your kid is, the more you limit their online-browsing time, and the easier it is to read every single sentence they did. You can keep on top of your own kid pretty easily. I think there's a lot of learning they can do with their computers, but that doesn't have to mean they're accessing anything outside of the learning management system while doing so. As they grow older, take off the leash. I'm not sure what age that is. 10? 12? 16? How long does it take to teach 'em not to get into the car with strangers or even friends, without a parent-approved reason and parent-approved friend.
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@Viscous Shear : A platform closing down comments isn't an infringement of the 1st Amendment. Just because I post a math video doesn't mean I'm obliged to host a comment section with it. If YouTube or another platform closes down comments, it's not an attack on anybody's constitutional rights. It's just a stupid move by a platform that doesn't know how to act like a platform, which will cause the rise of new platforms, and that's OK.
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@usa320 : There aren't that many Antifa.
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@djmars1983 : This is one of those things where doing nothing is exactly the right thing. The worst mistake he could do would be to step in and use force on ANYbody. Instead, let these so-called platforms cut their own throats by crippling audience engagement. The reason they dominate, now is they are or were the best thing going. With every censorship step they take, they're ratcheting-down their relevance.
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