It’s Ok now though cause TikTok was bought by Fox News.
If I ever have children, TikTok will be one of the first things I’ll have blocked for them.
Right before Facebook, Instagram, Xitter, and probably some other social scourges that I forget about.
Oh look, another company that knows it’s harming people and society, hides it and keeps on chasing profit and power.
Just remember tick tock is illegal for citizens to use in the country that invented it.
Yeah that’s because they have a state sanctioned version of TikTok that is controlled by an algorithm that police’s peoples speech and what they do and reports anything untoward to the proper authorities.
And now that Fox News has bought TikTok, the US has their own version of an algorithm that will police people’s speech and what they do, and most likely report anything untoward to the proper authorities.
Is TikTok really harming children, or is this just our generation’s “television/internet/video games are bad for children”?
Not only tiktok. My parents are addicted to facebook stories and YouTube stories ;)
The same algorithm…
What is more there a lot of Russian propaganda and misinformation. But in Poland that’s common in social media
Children are not the only ones being harmed here. This selective focus is only going to destroy the perception of other groups in terms of harm. Teenagers, young people, old people are also being harmed here - it is by design, and its everyone.
I bet this is related to Palantir facial recognition. Seems like identifying people and feeding it into some database is very important lately.
They tried warning us about fb over 10 years ago and nothing happened
25 years ago. Every study on social media and mental health back then showed it was bad.
Then literally Web 2.0 is the problem. All social media stops existing if we go back from Web 2.0.
let’s just go back to dial up internet.
I wouldn’t say nothing happened. Young people migrated off of it and it’s now the lead gasoline of the social media world
Yeah but young people didn’t migrate off it because it was harmful
They migrated in part to instagram which Facebook bought and made even more harmful than Facebook itself
Yeah ig is the worst part of Facebook, just people curating what they want people to think their life looks like
This is in stark contrast to… Facebook???
At least Facebook has Facebook Marketplace.
Damn… money laundering though LIVE with its “gifts” I never thought about this. Everything else is wrong, at scale, but this surprised me.
I’m looking forward to the day when social media is heavily regulated and age-gated.
Age gated? You’d submit your driver’s license or identity to these sites?
Yeah, and that’s how you get shitty age verification laws.
It’s a double edged sword
Bummer that they’re necessary, but they are.
They are not. It’s not the governments job to parent the nations children, (and conveniently erode our privacy in the process)
How is this argument different from “it’s not the governments job to provide healthcare / education / social services”
Yeah bummer that big daddy fascist leader is necessary, but they are.
I don’t think they approach necessity tbh. At best, they’re a bandaid, and a crutch for parents.
But the drawbacks of the laws that have been implemented so far, and are trying to be, as vast overreaches that give a false sense of security with no real benefit. They also do that by placing even more information into the hands of the very companies causing the problem in the first place.
That’s where regulations would focus in an ideal world, limiting the companies from causing the problems in the first place, not slapping bad patches over them.
