Is YouTube to blame for Russell Gortzig's burns?
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Making the leap that her son burned himself while imitating a YouTube video disposes her or her son of the personal responsibility that goes along with using any tool or from reading any source of information.
We would not hold Craftsman responsible if he had hurt himself using the circular saw or TimeLife responsible if he had read how to use it in their Woodworking series of books.
She should be held responsible for the lax supervision and apparently, minimal or absent restriction placed on her teenager.
YouTube is not culpable in this case. The site did not encourage nor promote irresponsible behavior.
Ermann, M. David; Williams, Mary B.; Shauf, M.S. (Eds.). Computers, Ethics, and Society. New, York: Oxford University Press, 1990; 2nd ed., 1997.
Patterson, Philip and Wilkins, Lee. Media Ethics: Issues and Cases. Dubuque, IA: Wm. C. Brown, Publishers, 1991; 2nd ed., 1994; 3rd ed., 1998.
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The argument that YouTube made me do it is completely fallacious. I saw someone jump off of a bridge in a movie once so I am going to jump in real life and hopefully someone sues the movie producers. Ridiculous.
This is the lazy, easy, counterproductive answer to this problem. The better and more productive answer, is how do I monitor my childs activities better? How can I explain right and wrong behavior to them? How can I teach them about accountability and responsibilities for decisions? The wrong answer is blame YouTube, blame the next person. This cycle can go on forever and will never teach anyone anything.
Use this as an example to teach your child what is acceptable and what is not. Use this as a starting point to have your child (AND YOU) understand taking responsibility. Blaming YouTube solves nothing, and helps no one. Stand up and learn from this, dont hide.
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Maybe we could think of a way to verify that a child is over the age of 18 before we allow them to watch a video like this? I mean one where it's not typing 08 08 80 into an "age check" box (like on any beer/cigarette website).
If she somehow gets away with blaming YT for this I'm gonna be so flippin' furious.
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M$Was he chained down and forced to do it?? probably not did it of his own free will therefore his own fault.
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