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Should Youtube Be Banned For Kids Under The Age Of 13?

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A boy named Raymond Revero decided to light himself on fire. He saw a video on YouTube of someone lighting their shoes on fire, so he decided to try. He thought he would not get hurt so he did it for the video. Right when the burning hot fire gilded against his shoes the fire started to spread. It went up his body and he needed to go to the hospital for serious burns. Even though he ended up okay he still suffers the skin damage today. Youtube is a form of entertainment. Youtube is there for people to post videos for other YouTubers to watch. When people like you, or what you post on your account they subscribe to your channel. Getting more and more subscribers is what most YouTubers want. Youtube can be dangerous, but it can also be a great way to learn things. Youtube should be banned for kids under the age of 13 because there are dangerous challenges, inappropriate things posted, and people dying. First, there are dangerous challenges. For example, Makenzie Carro wrote, “What could possibly motivate kids to bite into a packet of toxic laundry detergent—or to …show more content…

In addition, the dangerous challenges on YouTube are becoming more and more viral, and when famous YouTubers do the challenges they do not know that their fans are trying the challenge. Next, when there are inappropriate things posted, kids who should not be seeing the inappropriate things otherwise learn things that parents may not want them to know, see, or hear, which can change how they act in the future.Finally, people are dying from the stunts that are spreading like a disease, when one person starts a deadly stunt, they don’t realize they are the creator for the challenge that is killing other people. To help youtube be blocked for the kids under the age of 13 you can sign a petition to go to the government to possibly get a law

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