States sue TikTok over app's effect on kids' mental health
States sue TikTok over app's effect on kids' mental health
More than half of American teens aged 13 to 17 use TikTok, the short-form video social media app owned by ByteDance, a Chinese company.
This is stupid "save the kids" grandstanding that will be thrown out of court.
Every generation has a "this new thing that frightens and confuses old people will kill your kids!"
Im too lazy to monitor my kids web activity so let's sue everyone with a website!
Are we just going to gloss over the fact most social media is the same platform?
Yeah, 100% about the mental health of younger people. I know whataboutism isn't a good argument, but there are so many other points I could suggest the nation starts if they were really that bothered.
Useless garbage. Should have been done 20 years ago. But parents are retarded when it comes to protecting their children. Every time. These idiots can’t protect their children in the richest country in the world.
Contrary to common sense, most (not all) of the studies I've come across indicate there is little to no impact on mental health from social media.
Also contrary to common sense, parents apparently no longer need to parent their children.
mental health risks are posed to teens and children
by compulsive TikTok use,including depression, anxiety, sleep loss and body dysmorphia.This is called Life.
Honestly, I'm more concerned with the distraction social media plays on adults. Parents should be guiding their children to know right and wrong. But, from what I've observed, it seems parents are too preoccupied with streaming services and social media (often simultaneously) to deal with raising their children. How the heck kids are even on social media to begin with is a concern.
You have no right to complain or file lawsuits after you let an iPad raise your child for ten years.
We all know that social media is designed to be addictive. People continue to use it while complaining that it's addictive and file lawsuits so the government can tell the service to be less addictive. You know as soon as it's made less addictive you're going to drop it for the next addictive thing. FCK, we are a dumb species.
That's... kind of how addictive things work. Willpower alone is not enough to avoid them for some people.
When has it ever been forced upon an industry to alter their product or service to make it less addictive? Hasn't it always been the burden of the individual to seek help for their addictions?
This lawsuit will go nowhere. You can't impose restrictions on an entire industry to target a small cohort. At best, you'll get parental controls. At the worst, you'll be required to sign in with a state ID. Devices already have parental controls. It's the parents who are failing to use the tools, and responsibility, they've been given.