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Comment on TikTok must face U.S. lawsuit over the platform's viral “blackout challenge” that several parents blame for their children’s deaths, an appeals court ruled

some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I’m gonna take the side that tok is potentially liable on the algo argument but these parents also failed their children. Teaching your kids to avoid replicating unsafe internet content should be just as primary as looking both ways before crossing the road.

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winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
“If your friend told you to jump off a bridge, would you?”

-Any decent parent

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- Trafficone@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  "Bridge jumping challenge"
  
  TikTok shitposter
  
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Kissaki@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
As a society, we’re responsible for all our children. The point of child protection laws, and population protection in general, is to support and protect them, because often times, parents are incapable of doing so, or it’s social dynamics that most parents can’t really understand, follow, or teach in.

Yes, parents should teach and protect their children. But we should also create an environment where that is possible, and where children of less fortunate and of less able parents are not victims of their environment.

I don’t think demanding and requiring big social platforms to moderate and regulate at least to the degree where children are not regularly exposed to life-threatening trends is a bad idea.

That stuff can still be elsewhere if you want it. But social platforms have a social dynamic, more so than an informative one.

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