The whole idea of this is broken, since so much of our collective knowledge is locked away in YouTube/Reddit. It's making a law against children in libraries because there are adult books in it.

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inigyou 21 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's a problem. Reddit is already dead, half the subreddits are banned, half the remaining OG posts have been edited into random words in protest, 80% of content is now LLMs farming karma. Maybe we should have built human society on a more stable foundation?

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ilovecake1984 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

There is some okay stuff on YouTube.

There is nothing stopping people reposting stuff on platforms without social media elements and with proper curation and publisher responsibilities.

Most big YouTubers would love this to happen I’m sure.

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krapp a day ago | parent [-]

This will be a controversial statement here, but for better or worse, Youtube is a modern Library of Alexandria. It archives a significant amount of human knowledge and culture in video form, and for a lot of it, there is no backup.

Big, popular channels do push their viewers to alternative platforms like Patreon because of Youtube's censorship guidelines and arbitrary demonetization, but a lot of valuable content is on smaller channels where the owners may not have the wherewithal to transfer all of their content, much less their audience.

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ilovecake1984 a day ago | parent [-]

YouTube is very mixed.

Putting short form content on it was a mistake.

It’s only not trash if you use it correctly.

Watch some videos by some racists, you get fed videos making you racist.

It has all the negatives of social media.

Ideal the UK would just make platforms responsible as publishers.

This is the dividing line which should apply for under 18s.

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krapp 21 hours ago | parent [-]

> It’s only not trash if you use it correctly. > Watch some videos by some racists, you get fed videos making you racist.

So don't watch some videos by some racists, and curate your feed properly. I don't see why the government needs to get involved here.

>This is the dividing line which should apply for under 18s.

The problem is the dividing line won't stay there. A lot of people want social media regulated or banned outright for adults as well. The incentives to restrict freedom of speech and control narratives are all-consuming. Definitions will be intentionally vague so that they can apply to any platform that governments want to censor.

	▲	ilovecake1984 19 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Sure. But I’m just not that fussed about online freedom of speech. World was fine before it and will be fine after it.