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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No empathy for grieving parents? Maybe I'm just getting old.
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.
Objectively speaking, young and impressionable minds are more susceptible to falling for dark patterns.
All the more reason for parents to be actively involved with their children, especially at those ages.
It doesn't cost you anything to refrain from using the word "morons" in this context... But I guess that's just the empathy.
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.
What kind of parents leave their children unsupervised on the internet?
/s? Or you don't have kids?
There is zero part of growing up that requires access to the internet.
I agree, but unless you don't let kids have friends, they will have access.
my parents tried many times to revoke my access.
The typical workarounds involved a trip to the dump to dig up some godforsaken machine, and maybe stopping by the library to burn an iso. Wireless adapter lacks an antenna? No problem, I'll rig up a coat hanger/paperclip/random piece of wire.
At that point, why do I need to be worried you won't do a suicide challenge?
wut
Follow your logic. If my guardianship tactics to cease you from doing choking challenges persist, am I to blame for your continued workarounds?
I love more so your implications that atomicbocks even has the privilege of getting them an internet accessible router.
Don’t let your kids hang out with those who have parents you don’t know and don’t trust. It has worked for Christian parents for decades and it worked for my lesbian parents growing up in the conservative south.
That's old news. Always online is slowly being pushed even by governments because it's easier to track citizens that way.
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.
Your parents need to get out of that retirement home and take away your Internet
What kind of helicopter parents snoop on their children?
You call guardianship “snooping”?
Did you lose your guardian’s trust or something?
no empathy for not being good parents. Now they are no longer parents.
Nope. Stupid is as stupid does. This is Darwinism at work.
Yup, they should just bury their kids and move on. That's the really smart move.
What a bootlicking psychopathic comment.
What a childish response to something you disagree with.
Both are at fault in this case. This is why I supervise my adoptees. I care too much about them than to let them pull dangerous stunts like these.
Tiktok should have also immediately sent law enforcement on the folks that started the challenge. Algorithms are algorithms, but even some trends are against their ToS.
and yet they take action too slow
After being choked unconscious there is about 7 seconds before brain damage will start to occur.
Ah, my unfun fact of the day
Lawyers for TikTok argued that the case should be dismissed under the First Amendment and the current law called the Communications Decency Act, which bars internet companies from liability for content by third parties.
Critics argue that the law is outdated.
Ya reckon?!
Did we just skip the “Run blindfolded into oncoming traffic TikTok challenge” between tide pods and choking, or have I not been paying enough attention?
Section 230 needs a paddlin’ now that it’s clear big tech controls every platform and every corner, and Trust and Safety is nothing more than a weak tea after-the-fact press release slash out-of-court settlement promising “changes”.