Your Children Are Closer To YouTube Smut Than You May Think
YouTube is chock-full of great content for kids, which is why many parents feel comfortable handing their children a smartphone or tablet and letting them watch playlists of their favorite cartoons, music videos or educational content. However, research released yesterday for Safer Internet Day reveals that when kids watch videos on YouTube they "can be as little as three clicks away from inappropriate or adult content."
YouTube is chock-full of great content for kids, which is why many parents feel comfortable handing their children a smartphone or tablet and letting them watch playlists of their favorite cartoons, music videos or educational content. However, research released yesterday for Safer Internet Day reveals that when kids watch videos on YouTube they “can be as little as three clicks away from inappropriate or adult content.”
Kaspersky Lab reports, in a press release, that “Examining YouTube’s ‘suggested’ videos which sit visibly alongside clips or episodes of popular children’s television programmes such as Peppa Pig, Rastamouse and Dora the Explorer, researchers found that, on average, users are just three clicks away from content better suited to a more mature audience.”
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