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  • Beyond a Free-for-all, ID-checked gates, or a sanitised platform there's a fourth option: you declare what you want less of and your own software enforces it against the platform's preferences.
    by SuoDuanDao
  • There's only 3 options for the internet:

    1. free for all

    2. locked down with ID checked age gates

    3. sanitized with no adult content at all

    If we put responsibility for keeping kids safe on companies we will get 2 or 3. The only good option is that parents need to actually parent their kids.

    by consensus1
  • Texas judge rules heroin marketed as child safe so parents could get back to doing their own heroin was not child safe after all.
    by philipallstar
  • My son is trying to get me to get him a phone. His is reason is because all the 5th graders have them on the bus. Im so worried about these damn phones. It seems like this is how this generation of kids loses their innocence these days. Like here is a little box full of gossip and porn and things to envy over...idk maybe im just too damn worried lol
    by hefner1456
  • People talking about addictiveness but from what I can tell this is all about how effective the content filters are. Tiktok being held liable for the efficacy of its controls is a much bigger issue than this one case.
    by cosmicgadget
  • TikTok isn't even safe for adults, let alone children.
    by pmdr
  • > Liu also said Texas had established that TikTok's "Restricted Mode" did not work as advertised and exposed minors to content the company said would be filtered out.

    I don't use tiktok, can someone explain what the restrict mode was advertised as vs does? If it's like any social media limiter it's perhaps a softer thing (time limit) than a hard thing (ie, designed to put the onus on the user).

    by tolugenius
  • It blows my mind that parents let their children use these platforms with these safety features.

    I just found out yesterday that my cousin lets their 5ish year old have a TikTok account, but they have to allow or deny anyone who follows. How absurd is that. It doesn't block anything about what they view (I assume they relied on this safety feature), and there's no way that vetting who can follow (family and friends) is safe enough. The alternative is my younger cousin not having access to TikTok at five years old. Seems like a completely fine alternative.

    I imagine the average person just doesn't think about the potential implications of giving your child a TikTok account at that age.

    by jjice

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