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I hate tiktok as much as anyone else but this is not the way to do this.
They just banned it using "think of the kids" and without establishing any laws to actually protect the kids. You see how unserious and corrupt this appears? Populist authoritarian drivel like this should not be applauded even if you agree with it.
This abomination should be banned everywhere to somewhat mitigate the current brainrot rates.
So true. Same goes for X, insta and Facebook.
in memory of this, I'm starting another Tor relay! :)
The government is not wrong tbh. Young people are addicted to social media and scroll endlessly all the time, and I have myself came across, mildly put, disturbing content. I deleted most of my social media and use the bare minimum to only keep up with some remote friends.
I also don't buy the argument that it's censoring because it's just one of many many channels people can freely communicate. TikTok alone does not mean democracy. Also, the same way it can support democracy, so can it be used to demolish it by repeating false claims to make them appear truthful. And if you add AI on top which can generate convincing images and videos of whatever...
Prohibition has never really worked for any addictive thing so far. What makes you think that it will work for social media?
In my opinion, education is the better investment.
They already have the drug. Education is going to do nothing. They need rehab;this is much more helpful, making it less accessible to future children. Worst case they get more tech literate finding their way around the bans
Yea, but you gotta educate the next generation and not only children are affected by this addiction.
Meaning if you ban for children, they have no way to educate themselves and when they suddenly get access, the addiction hits even harder.
Some rehab may be required, but forced rehabs generally don’t work, you have to get the affected person wanting to go.
You can educate and ban. That's what my school did... Teach you the real issues with drugs, not just the dare shit lol
Quite a lot of kids and teenagers have the same reaction to taking away their phone, as addicts have when taking away their drugs. I don't think education can solve problems that are already affecting peoples mental and physical state. Not giving kids TikTok is same as not giving kids to much sugar. In small doses and controlled yes, but nothing you would give them free unlimited access to.
First of all, how is not giving and not giving too much the same?
Kids aren’t stupid, explain why it is bad/dangerous, best before first install of tiktok. And TikTok is not the only place in the web with shorts, hell even twich has them now. You need to educate your kids before letting the ho into WWW alone.
With a good education, you can get your child rejecting too much sugar on their own, btw.
Kids aren’t stupid
Well, they ain't smart either... Even adults know better but still many end up in situations that are preventable if you have just some small amount of rational thinking. Also... you first need to know it yourself, to be able to educate your kids. Most parents didn't grow up with TikTok nor do they use it themselves. How to educate your kids about dangers you yourself don't know or understand?
Kids are like a white paper, experience is what makes a kid “stupid” / “smart” or just to who they are.
But yea, I agree, that many adults have not the education they would need to educate a kid properly. There should in my opinion be support from society (like with government founding) that ensures parents can get educated enough. The society would profit highly from such efforts, I think, as well educated people can look after themself and are less likely generating costs that society (through taxes) has to pay compared to less educated people.
Government can get the similar effect with a ban, without spending a dime. Kids will grow up to be normal people who can actually work, be normal, and pay taxes. Same thing, but cheaper.
Regulation would be way more impactful. If something is illegal anyway, you will still get it, but completely unhinged. I mean setting up a VPN isn’t too hard.
Kids aren’t stupid,
Kids aren't necessarily stupid. But, same as the adults who they grow into, most are.
I refuse to believe that most people are stupid.
Hope you agree that not well educated is not the same as stupid.
Of course. Education has not much bearing on intelligence. I know college educated people who are idiots. I know highly intelligent people who haven't touched a lick of education past highschool.
Though, I still believe most people are stupid.
Or they are just not educated enough on how one does critical logical thinking and not educated enough about the philosophy of scientific thinking.
Wait, I guess critical logical thinking is part of scientific thinking 🤔
no. Education doesn't make a dipshit smart. It can make them better informed. Better able to make good decisions. But it doesn't magically make smart.
Why are you now suggesting education makes a person intelligent? you weren't before...
Big win for libs in albania. Ban TikTok!!!! \s \s \s
Quoting the Men in Black OST: "it's for your own protection"
Oh no, won't somebody think of the influencers
i'd be more worried about the citizen journalism exposing much of what is happening on the ground that governments don't want you to see (aka gaza, for example)
yeah but for every bad things social media uncovers we have a longer list of bad things it causes. It helps uncover gaza but look at the lists of ethnic cleansing and genocides facebook helped.
There is no shortage of platforms that allow for that. Lemmy, reddit, blue sky, etc. it is not hard to adapt
Yet TikTok is where the people are. Lemmy is Mostly empty :)
People will move around. There'll always be a replacement
I'd be more worried if there wasn't any other platforms where media can be posted to broader audience
Influencers make money from the platform and in most peoples' capitalism-riddled brain, "the government is ripping up your paycheck" is more alarming than "the government is silencing its people".
