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by mc32 2480 days ago
What do their own folks who have children think? There must be some internal pressure on that issue but probably one of those things that get ignored.

Why don’t we hear about their internal protests to management and sit outs, etc? If they’re getting fined, it’s more than just public opinion and advocacy it’s preventing illegal activity.

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Do googlers let their [young] children use YouTube? I thought parents in tech were usually more restrictive on what they allowed their kids to spend time on
Maybe not YouTube proper, but I would hope Googlers let their kids watch YouTube Kids. It would be a damning review on the product if its own engineers refuse to let their children use it.
There have been several high-profile articles in respectable magazines and newspapers lately which detail how the "tech elite" very often send their children to special schools with little or no technology, and severely limit their own children's access to technology at home.

Meanwhile, they make billions off of feeding lowest common denominator content to everyone else's children.

Probably a lot of eye rolling at the fine and whispy statements to each other like, “ they don’t understand, it takes time for the algorithms to get this stuff right.” Typical group think. They can feel like they’re doing good without actually doing it.