> If I had a child, I would have severe qualms with it.
Yeah, I'm skeptical. If you had a child, you'd be so spread thin with keeping your kid healthy and safe, while paying for it all, that the licensing of some software they use would be the least of your concerns. You'd be worried that his girlfriend might be manipulative, if he's smoking too much weed, if he's partying too much, if he is being bullied, or if saving up for the PS5 is a wise use of his summer job funds, most likely.
For the last few years, there have been complaints that Youtube Kids has issues where the algorithm stumbles onto content using cartoon characters in ways that are disturbing for young kids.
Do you think imaginative play is supposed to be from whole cloth? I thought that was half the point of children’s media, to give raw material for children to synthesize into imaginative play.
My kids play very different when they are not given media. They can create their own stories. They dig in the mud instead of grabbing some dirt and calling it thomas.
I loved Thomas as a kid and will let my kids watch it, but if you actually watch the plots they have very odd morals to the stories and are generally male chauvinist. But trains and it's generally harmless IMHO as long as you discuss the shortcomings with your children.
I can tell you right now they're just gonna default to Zoom as that's the service that is mostly talked about, and probably the easiest to set up and use. Even my grandmother knows how to set up a Zoom meeting.
