Agree with everything you say and it started a web search on Wikipedia.
First off, does he have to provide evidence for his claims? From wikipedia on burden of proof, the burden of proof falls on the challenger of the status quo. Yes, to us the status quo is aliens don't abduct people, but living in Roswell during the 1970s the status quo could of been aliens have abducted everyone. Point is status quo changes depending on social and temporal setting.
So how can we demand evidence on anything other than a consensus of our social setting?
He has the argument of ignorance as we in this discussion do not have the means to proof he wasn't abducted by aliens. Now I accept that the argument of ignorance is a fallacy but I'm new to philosophy and am still working on understanding why it is a fallacy, other than just accepting it as a rule.
The videos mentioned in the article seem to purpose made to scare kids under nine who want to see their favorite cartoon characters.
Limiting the discussion to YouTube, Google needs to acknowledge how many children spend time browsing videos on their site and make a YouTube Kids with only approved providers and strict moderation.
I prefer having a physical book. Flicking through pages to reread sections, highlighting and margin notes are not yet seamless with the reading app I'm using.
But Getting a tablet has increased the amount I'm reading by at least a factor of 4. It is now so easy to buy books after reading a recommendation online. The free sample feature makes it so I don't buy a book I won't like, And the built in dictionary has me looking up new words without pausing my reading flow.
Physical is great but I don't think I'll ever go back for reading fiction. Having said all that my kids will be getting physical books. The distractions in electronic devices is something I'm still struggling with.
Wirth's law is a computing adage which states that software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.