Comment on Parents sue TikTok over child deaths allegedly caused by ‘blackout challenge’
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 2 weeks agoYeah, it’s been going for decades but parents blame the website they let their kids sit on for hours instead of actually parenting and spending time with their kids.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Where have kids been posting videos for decades?
liyunxiao@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
If you think harmful memes didn’t spread before the internet, then you really have no understanding of human behavior.
The blackout challenge or variants have been around since at least the 1970s in the US.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I never said such a thing.
This is about broadcasting. Not word of mouth. If you can point to countless examples of broadcasting, please educate me.
liyunxiao@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
If you’re asking this and trying to argue this genuinely, then you’ve entirely lost the plot.
‘broadcasting’ doesn’t enter into this. Kids will do this regardless, and have done this regardless for much longer than the UK has had access to any type of video media.
The only difference is kids can now show their stupidity to the world… Which they have been able to do for the last 40 years to some extent. We don’t call a personal website broadcasting, because by no written definition could it be considered that. Neither is YouTube broadcast media, nor any internet thing (strictly speaking).
Neither is Tiktok, nor will be what comes after it, and so on.
Now we could change the definition of broadcast to mean any internet site or app and apply broadcast standards to it… but that just means the UK loses access to the Internet. No one would comply, because what power does a tiny island in perpetual economic decline have? If UK didn’t have any advertisers sites would already ignore it.