Comment on More than a dozen states in the US have sued TikTok, accusing the social media platform of helping to drive a mental health crisis among teenagers

SattaRIP@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Steve@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is that why Meta is also being sued over the negative mental health effects of Facebook and Instagram?

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  • SoupBrick@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The opposite, actually.

    hrw.org/…/systemic-censorship-palestine-content-i…

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    • tardigrada@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      @SoupBrick

      And why is TikTok (and all other non-Chinese social media) banned in China then? Non-Western.narraties? Palestine? Other reasons?

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      • SoupBrick@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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?

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  • SattaRIP@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They’re not trying to ban them though. And fines are nothing to a multibillion dollar company.

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    • Steve@communick.news ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The federal ban is for ByteDance not TickTok. And that’s separate from the states law suit. They’re unrelated.

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• tardigrada@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  banning media that shows a non western narrative.

  Which media show a non-Western narrative? TikTok? Facebook? Instagram?

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  • DancingBear@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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

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    • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Young people see news influencers on social media which are even less trustworthy as traditional news outlets.

      It’s the “I did my own research” of news.

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      • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        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.

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    • tardigrada@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is this the reason then why TikTok is already banned in China, TikTok’s parent company’s home country? Because media there is lying?

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      • homicidalrobot@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Because they have Douyin.

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      • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yay for china banning stuff! \s

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  • SattaRIP@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    TikTok

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