What else do you want the government to ban? How about we as parents take a little personal responsibility.
Very unbased, not 1st principals take IMO.
Hopefully TikTok will be banned as scheduled.
“And even if parental controls worked and parents chose to shield their kids from bad stuff, they can’t because TikTok’s content moderation is poor. An internal study found that the “leakage rate” (of bad stuff getting past moderators) is as follows: 35.71% of “Normalization of Pedophilia” content; 33.33% of “Minor Sexual Solicitation” content; 39.13% of “Minor Physical Abuse” content; 30.36% of “leading minors off platform”; 50% of “Glorification of Minor Sexual Assault”; and 100% of “Fetishizing Minors.” For those who think that social media is relatively harmless, we urge you to read the quotations and internal studies described below, in which employees of TikTok discuss the vast and varied harms that they are causing to literally millions of American children each year.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/jonathanhaidt/p/industrial-scale-harm-tiktok?r=7ew6d&utm_medium=ios
Discussion
Should we continue to allow free will to run its course? If so, entire generations of children will be cognitively harmed in relation to consuming content on TikTok.
This is strictly my opinion.
Parents are the will of the child until they are 18. I agree with the premise that Tik Tok is terrible, but the government does not need to direct my parenting choices.
Agreed. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
It’s a tricky subject. On one hand you have an app more addictive than most street drugs. But on the other you have responsibility and liberty.
Parents should not allow their children on any social media in my eyes. Err on the side of freedom imo (which is hard when so many parents are criminally negligent).
I could go either way.