https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/22/parents-exploiting-chi... In 2017, a family was investigated over the making of YouTube videos on its channel DaddyOFive (175m views), in which the parents “pranked” their kids by screaming in their faces and making them cry hysterically. And another family was charged with child endangerment for putting their eight-year-old and his nanny in the bed of a pickup truck and haring around a small town in southern California (1 million people watched the video). This week, when welfare officers in Arizona visited the house of the woman who runs Fantastic Adventures, a channel that has racked up more than 250m views, they found a household of traumatised children who alleged they had been pepper-sprayed and locked in cupboards for forgetting their lines. Online, meanwhile, they were shown doing endlessly jolly things and performing like ponies. [...] There are more pressing regulatory issues around YouTube, and the child exploitation racket, unless there is provable abuse, is probably impossible to curtail, not least because it is the natural end point to the universal dynamic that we are all content providers now. ____ La facilità con cui ci si affretta a giustificare queste aberrazioni (it is the natural end point to the universal dynamic that we are all content providers now) mi lascia sempre perplesso. Forse qui, più che la censura, funzionerebbero bene le tasse. Tasse per la piattaforma per ogni visualizzazione di video che presenti minori, e tasse ancora più salate per gli utenti che li caricano, in modo tale da rendere fortemente antieconomico lo sfruttamento dei bambini per entrambi gli sfruttatori. Giacomo