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Comment on UK investigation to determine if TikTok fails to protect children from harmful content

Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Why is it always up to companies to parent children and not, like… parents?

Don’t get me wrong, I fucking hate Tiktok and the like but where’s the onus on the parents to actually look up from their own devices and take responsibility?

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monketman82@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Because they are too busy drooling at TikTok to do anything.

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Uranium_Green@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The thing is that tiktok isn’t parenting children, its exposing them to content which is detrimental to their mental health and is often very addictive and can be very isolating.

I have to ask, how do you parent your children, (especially older ones/ teenagers) without invading their privacy, especially if they’re already stuck in a harmful echo chamber, whilst still trying to bolster their independence?

It seems to me that you can have conversations and hope that your kid doesn’t go down the wrong route, but thats a lot harder if there are legitimate bad and indifferent actors pushing harmful content on these platforms.

Surely these platforms have a duty of responsibility as a content provoder in the same way I wouldn’t expect Cbeebies to be showing Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

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- Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I don’t know how to parent children and nor do I hope I’ll have to learn.
  
  But keeping them off harmful shit doesn’t seem too difficult if you deem them old enough to be granted unfiltered access to the combined knowledge of humanity.
  
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Codpiece@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Some of us are actively trying to parent as best we can, but kids are really good at finding loopholes and opportunities to do what they want to and circumvent restrictions.

I see companies implementing these changes to be a good thing. An extra safety net is never a bad idea.

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- Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Good on you! The keyword is some though. Parental controls have been on devices since they became ubiquitous, yet still today we get news stories of kids spending a month’s salary on mobile games.
  
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