A bipartisan group of 14 attorneys general from across the country allege that the company uses addictive features to hook children to the app and that it has intentionally misled the public about the safety of prolonged use.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James said young people across the country had died or been injured doing TikTok “challenges” and many others were feeling “more sad, anxious and depressed because of TikTok’s addictive features”.
She cited a 15-year-old boy, who died in Manhattan while “subway surfing” - riding on top of a moving subway car. His mother later found TikTok videos of such activity on his phone, she said.
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Regulators have launched similar cases against Facebook and Instagram for their impact on young people’s mental health.
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The Federal Trade Commission, a government watchdog, accused TikTok in August of violating child privacy laws.
I think the guns and the trickle up economy are far worse. But this isn’t actually about mental health, but banning media that shows a non western narrative.
Is that why Meta is also being sued over the negative mental health effects of Facebook and Instagram?
They too are promoting a non-western narrative?
The opposite, actually. I do agree that the “ban unless sold” situation with tiktok stems from lack of control over the narrative due to the crackdowns we are seeing on college protests.
https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/12/21/metas-broken-promises/systemic-censorship-palestine-content-instagram-and
@SoupBrick
And why is TikTok (and all other non-Chinese social media) banned in China then? Non-Western.narraties? Palestine? Other reasons?
My friend, do you think China does not benefit from the destabilization caused by putting the USA’s blatant support of the ongoing genocide in Gaza on display for all the world to see? Does China have USA’s best interest at heart, no. Is this platform allowing the continued growth of Pro-Palestine support, yes.
Why is TikTok banned in China, my friend?
Censorship, what does that have to do with the current conversation of the United States attempts at censorship of the Pro-Palestine narrative?
@SoupBrick
So banning social media platforms for censorship is okay, but if you do the same for protecting children’s mental health it is not? Isn’t that weird?
Ah, a troll gotcha. Nowhere did I say China was good. That is just a bad faith take. I was hoping you were actually trying to learn. Don’t bother responding, you are blocked.
Car dependency has created a world that forces children to live online since they can’t do anything outside without their parents driving them around. So I just don’t see how banning TikTok does anything to address the root problem. Banning Tiktok does nothing to solve the root issue of lacking 3rd places and community.
Because they have Douyin.
They’re not trying to ban them though. And fines are nothing to a multibillion dollar company.
The federal ban is for ByteDance not TickTok.
And that’s unrelated to the states filing this law suit.
Which media show a non-Western narrative? TikTok? Facebook? Instagram?
The cable news networks are losing their chokehold on media. Young people can see the truth that the government and the media are lying about daily
Is this the reason then why TikTok is already banned in China, TikTok’s parent company’s home country? Because media there is lying?
Yay for china banning stuff! \s
Because they have Douyin.
Young people see news influencers on social media which are even less trustworthy than traditional news outlets.
It’s the “I did my own research” of news.
TBH the news that I get from social media is usually first-hand accounts and footage. It’s far superior to the extremely filtered and propagandized disinformation coming from capitalist media outlets.
I think any child could recognize the difference and that’s why media outlets want to ban the competition. This won’t make kids happier.
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