TikTok sued for 'wreaking havoc' on teen mental health
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A bipartisan group of 14 attorneys general accuse the company of using addictive features to hook children.

A bipartisan group of 14 attorneys general from across the country allege that the company uses addictive features to hook children to the app and that it has intentionally misled the public about the safety of prolonged use.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James said young people across the country had died or been injured doing TikTok “challenges” and many others were feeling “more sad, anxious and depressed because of TikTok’s addictive features”.

She cited a 15-year-old boy, who died in Manhattan while “subway surfing” - riding on top of a moving subway car. His mother later found TikTok videos of such activity on his phone, she said.

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Regulators have launched similar cases against Facebook and Instagram for their impact on young people’s mental health.

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The Federal Trade Commission, a government watchdog, accused TikTok in August of violating child privacy laws.

  • SoupBrick@yiffit.net
    3·
    1 month 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 on display for all the world to see? Does China have USA’s best interest at heart, no. Is this platform allowing the continued growth of Pro-Palestine support, yes.

      • SoupBrick@yiffit.net
        5·
        1 month ago

        Censorship, what does that have to do with the current conversation of the United States attempts at censorship of the Pro-Palestine narrative?

        • tardigrada@beehaw.orgOP
          2·
          1 month ago

          @SoupBrick

          So banning social media platforms for censorship is okay, but if you do the same for protecting children’s mental health it is not? Isn’t that weird?

          • SoupBrick@yiffit.net
            6·
            1 month ago

            Ah, a troll gotcha. Nowhere did I say China was good. That is just a bad faith take. I was hoping you were actually trying to learn. Don’t bother responding, you are blocked.

            • tardigrada@beehaw.orgOP
              2·
              1 month ago

              @[email protected]

              Nowhere did I say China was good. That is just a bad faith take. I was hoping you were actually trying to learn. Don’t bother responding, you are blocked.

              It is a ‘bad faith take’ if one thinks that ‘China is good’? Is that right?

          • Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de
            1·
            1 month ago

            Car dependency has created a world that forces children to live online since they can’t do anything outside without their parents driving them around. So I just don’t see how banning TikTok does anything to address the root problem. Banning Tiktok does nothing to solve the root issue of lacking 3rd places and community.