alt Hacker NewsThere are so many things wrong with this story before you even get to the headline.
From the information in the article, I can’t really blame Google for this one. This was a series of deliberate blunders on the part of the father. The first blunder was letting a 9 year old have a YouTube account.
Putting aside whether a 9 year old should be making videos, the father should have been the one with the account and managing the channel.
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wccrawford • today at 12:08 PM
The article doesn't call it out very loudly, but...
"to a company credit card the father had saved to his own Google account, which his son also used"
It sounds like the son didn't have an account. It was just the father's account, with billing info attached with no limits.
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Yes and showing the kid how to spam others when he's unhappy with not having as many viewers ad professional streamers is also questionable.