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Well, I don't know then, this is super odd because here's the wayback for the launch of YT red and it says $10/mo with GPM included. The earlier pages archived all say "coming soon" and this time frame lines up with wikipedia's launch date as well as the prices listed on wikipedia. I really don't understand what's going on here then https://web.archive.org/web/20151031015519/youtube.com/red

EDIT: I just went and found my sign up confirmation from 8/1/2017 and the price was $10/mo and included YTM

Those services can either be blocked outright or use the parental controls provided by those services. None of this justifies big brother style government over reach. Additionally to me, the kids you need to protect are the really young ones. Teens ideally shouldn't be browsing adult content but it's far less damaging to them than young kids. And young kids don't need steam or unrestricted Netflix etc. They're also far less skilled at bypassing this stuff.

Yes I know what Google play music was, I used it in HS...I also have had premium since it was launched as YT red. I don't recall the price ever being $8 though. It was $10 at launch and it's always included the music for that price. The hike to $14 had nothing to do with music. I'm in the US though so maybe regions are different? I had my $10 price for years after the price increase...only somewhat recently did they bump me to the new price.

I did some looking online and red launched alongside YTM for $10/mo in October 2015.

Probably should write letters to our senators then. I personally opt out every time I fly and I'd be disappointed if that option went away.

YTM has basically always been bundled with premium. They recently raised the prices for grandfathered users but at the time the YTM bundle was introduced the premium price did not increase IIrc.

Children of the age they're trying to protect are children that probably shouldn't be on reddit

...those all use DNS too...apps use DNS to connect to their servers. DNS is used by basically everything internet connected, not just websites.

Routers have parental controls, if your kid can figure out how to bypass that then they can figure out a VPN and it's a moot point anyway. I have no idea what 3 button system you're talking a out here. I don't even get the analogy you're trying to make.

This isn't a physical place, this is the internet. Parental controls exist specifically for this situation. Also at least personally, my parents did not let me go anywhere solo when I was 12...so 12 year old me would've never made it to a strip club.

Just to play devil's advocate. Until rust gets a production ready GCC backend or LLVM gets more esoteric HW support there are probably some platforms that cannot run rust. That being said... realistically I think by the time rust becomes a large enough part of the kernel for it to matter the issue will have been sorted out as there are already 2 GCC implementations of rust in development...

Hmmm, that's a hard one for me. They're both very bad but personally having to submit ID makes me less comfortable...that being said I wouldn't call government censorship a win either. Maybe the main reason I find ID to be more concerning isn't because of some objective reason but rather because it's in your face rather than being in the shadows and humans don't do well with threats they can't see. Ultimately I think you might be right and I'm not advocating for either...just saying that currently the US cyber laws make me feel less ICK... although that might be a very subjective viewpoint. I think the real take away is all western nations seem to be going down a kinda bad path but that also isn't new unfortunately.

I'm not sure how take it down is related. It is unfortunate how broad the scope can be but in my opinion it's still less of a violation than being required to dox yourself to use services.