A pro-vaccine nonprofit said it had long ago written off YouTube because its videos were overwhelmed with anti-vaccine content and recommendations. The company just announced it has “disabled comments from tens of millions of videos that could be subject to predatory behavior,” meaning, essentially, videos portraying children. Awful videos have found their way onto YouTube Kids, repeatedly. It’s a business that can’t, for example, seem to deal with a highly visible Nazi problem. YouTube, in 2019, is seen as ubiquitous, powerful and also untamed. The satanic music panic is understood by moralizing critics and worried parents alike as the corruption of children animated as much by commercial motives as by ill will or evil. It bears some resemblance, too, to the now-vintage fears of back-masked satanic messaging in rock music, a phenomenon that likewise became more common only after the broader culture had begun panicking about it.
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