You don’t ban pipes, because they can be used to make pipe-bombs. You ban making pipe-bombs. Your proposals are so broad they would ban way too many things that are ok.

Ok, I see your point. You think that videos or random kids dancing on TikTok or kids you don’t know doing theater are somehow valuable are should be protected. Personally I don’t know who enjoys those videos and I think banning all of them achieves the desired goal without sacrificing anything of value. I thought that only other kids watch those videos and that everything about it is harmful. It basically trains easy to influence kids to fight for internet points, teaches the the wrong values and promotes bullying. You clearly think that having kids on TikToc have some benefits. We’re not going to agree about this.

As for phones, if we have science proving that they are harmful to kids I don’t see how they are different from cigarettes or alcohol. Then again, we let parents fuck up their kids in many different ways so I guess you’re right here and we should leave it to them. Their are free to take care of their children if they want to and we can’t force everyone to be a good parent anyway.

Football fans would willingly go to a gulag to watch the World Cup. They went to Qatar without any hesitation. 99% of people don’t take politics, human rights or morality into consideration when planning entertainment.

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No, I don’t mean prompting users. Typical ways to increase conversion rate are locking popular features behind the subscription (like you need premium account to comment), making some content available only to premium users or limiting the amount of content you can access as a free user (like only 2h per day). So far I’m still watching videos on youtube without even creating an account and without ads (ad-block).

Is it because it’s not how they make money now?

Sorry but you’re completely missing the point. You can’t compare 5% conversion rate of a subscription-first model and ad-first model. Youtube is optimizing their business around ads, they are definitely not doing everything they can to increase their conversion rate. ChatGPT on the other hand is aiming for as high conversion rate as possible. I don’t know if 5% conversion rate is high or low for ChatGPT but comparing it with YT simply doesn’t make sense.

I was thinking all night and my bet is on this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgr_RzCdlAg

That’s cute but seriously, who do you think will take over after Trump dies?

I asked Claude for the data (hehe):

“YouTube is primarily an advertising-driven business model (73% ads vs 27% subscriptions), while ChatGPT operates as a subscription-first business (84% subscriptions vs 15% API/other revenue).”

See the difference?

Youtube and search have ads as the main revenue source, not subscriptions. It’s not a fair comparison.

Are they so angry with him they are ready to voter for a democrat? No? Thought so.

“Once upon a time in America, there was a tyrant. And Congress rejected him totally. The tyrant, of course, was King George III”

Constantly spewing bullshit like that is exactly why your democracy crashed. When everything is part of some mystical “greatest nation in the world” fairly tale it’s hard to recognize and defend truly important values.

Congress didn’t reject the King because he was a tyrant. American elites rejected the King to establish new system where they could reap all the benefits. Then they enslaved people and committed genocide to enrich themselves. It was greed, not bravery that motivated them.

Back in my day we would program using office hole puncher and going to a library every time we needed to look up some API information.

Most people could live without youtube period. But what the fuck would be the reason to do it?

You don’t know why it would be good to stop exploiting children for clicks and ad revenue? Do you think a 12 yo can consent to live streaming their life for the whole world to watch?

Even so, the much more ridiculous one to me is the second one.

Cell phone bans are now common in schools. More and more research shows phones are bad for development.

https://www.newsweek.com/overcoming-our-denial-about-smartphones-effect-kids-opinion-1926025

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451958821000622

But you want to give them to kids why exactly?

I would be surprised if majority of people couldn’t live without watching kids on youtube but who knows, maybe you’re right.

I’ve been thinking about it and here’s my proposal:

• total ban on hosting/streaming videos with kids below 16. Anyone uploading content with kids is immediately banned. Platforms hosting content with kids are prosecuted.
• treat mobile phones like cigarettes. Parents giving phones to children < 16 are fined. If you want to track your kid get him a smart watch.

Who’s with me?

Is this real?

“For my next youtube video I will help to sponsor the brutal regime of the Taliban. Like and subscribe!”

Shit. Do worry then.

Don’t worry everyone, Trump only has 1296 days left in the office.