Foul-mouthed Bert and Ernie take center stage in YouTube's app battle
by Sam Thielman in New York from Technology | The Guardian on (#9ATV)
Children's advocates point to video of duo performing Scorsese dialogue as they argue for a Federal Trade Commission crackdown on internet content for kids
A foul-mouthed Bert and Ernie are giving YouTube Kids an image problem. A video of the Sesame Street duo swearing is a key exhibit in a petition sent to US regulators on Tuesday calling for censure of the Google-owned app.
In an update to a recent complaint against YouTube filed with the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, the watchdog groups catalogued all the gross things kids can find using the app's search function.
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