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OutForARip@lemmy.ca to World News@quokk.au · 14 days ago

6 families sue TikTok over deaths of their children after apparent ‘choking challenge’

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6 families sue TikTok over deaths of their children after apparent ‘choking challenge’

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OutForARip@lemmy.ca to World News@quokk.au · 14 days ago
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Six families are suing TikTok , claiming the company’s algorithm has a defect, is addictive, and targets minors with disturbing and troubling content.
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    As much as I truly believe that TikTok fucking sucks, so much that I have everything TikTok related blocked from my web browser, suing because your kids are morons is pretty fucking dumb.

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      Yup, they should just bury their kids and move on. That’s the really smart move.

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      No empathy for grieving parents? Maybe I’m just getting old.

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        You can have empathy while simultaneously realizing they obviously have no case.

        The article quotes an attorney representing the families saying that the videos were “material they can’t turn away from”. Come on, now. Those kids weren’t Clockwork Orange’d. Let’s return to reality.

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          Objectively speaking, young and impressionable minds are more susceptible to falling for dark patterns.

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            All the more reason for parents to be actively involved with their children, especially at those ages.

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          It doesn’t cost you anything to refrain from using the word “morons” in this context… But I guess that’s just the empathy.

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            It doesn’t cost you anything to refrain from using the word “morons”

            That’s why I didn’t use it.

            That was “Mastengwe”. Pay attention to who you’re replying to next time.

            That goes for all of the people who upvoted your comment, too. Shameful.

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              I should have put it differently, but “you” was meant in a general way.

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        7 days ago

        Nope. Stupid is as stupid does. This is Darwinism at work.

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        What kind of parents leave their children unsupervised on the internet?

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          /s? Or you don’t have kids?

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            There is zero part of growing up that requires access to the internet.

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              I agree, but unless you don’t let kids have friends, they will have access.

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            14 days ago

            scroll up🔼1🧵. I adopted an adult in my polycule.
            Want to adopt more.
            I am responsible enough to supervise their internet usage, and they know to ask me permission to record themselves online with masks & filters.

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              Your parents need to get out of that retirement home and take away your Internet

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      What a bootlicking psychopathic comment.

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        What a childish response to something you disagree with.

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