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Utah sues TikTok, alleging it lures children into addictive and destructive social media habits

Utah became the latest state Tuesday to file a lawsuit against TikTok, alleging the company is “baiting” children into addictive and unhealthy social media habits.

TikTok lures children into hours of social media use, misrepresents the app’s safety and deceptively portrays itself as independent of its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, Utah claims in the lawsuit.

“We will not stand by while these companies fail to take adequate, meaningful action to protect our children. We will prevail in holding social media companies accountable by any means necessary,” Republican Gov. Spencer Cox said at a news conference announcing the lawsuit, which was filed in state court in Salt Lake City.

CaptFeather ,

I mean I have issues with TikTok but parents could also just like not let their kids use it. Parental controls are a thing. I don’t understand why people get so upset at social media companies for trying to get everyone they possibly can to use their apps as much as they can since it’s how they make their money lol. They’re corporations, not charities - don’t expect them to do the right thing.

sour ,
@sour@kbin.social avatar

i don't understand why people get upset at nestle for taking and reselling water

it's how they make their money lol

they're a corporation not a charity

Lightor ,

I hate my state.

KillAllPoorPeople ,

“We’re just looking out for the best interest of our children!”

A bunch of 35-45 year old Lemmy users bashing something they don’t use but something the kids do. Just like their boomer and silent gen parents.

You guys fucking suck. I’d say I hope you all have sad, pathetic lives, but I know you all already do.

vaultdweller013 ,

Im 23 and think its annoying, admitedly my response to things that annoy me is to want to stab it. So… maybe im not the target demographic.

SmoothIsFast ,

It’s a Chinese spying and propaganda machine. Fuck off…

KillAllPoorPeople ,

Can you explain how? All I see are lesbians and black people.

And why does China spying on me matter? It’s better than the West, no?

SmoothIsFast ,

Fuck off troll

KillAllPoorPeople ,

How am I being propagandized by TikTok?

Why does China having every single last drop of my information (they don’t even, barely a sliver) matter?

You need to back up what you say. Your Western brainwashed idea of common sense and obvious xenophobia/racism ain’t an objective truth in the world.

SmoothIsFast ,

Yeah go suck xinnie the poohs dick troll

KillAllPoorPeople , (edited )

Still got nothing. You only have fear. You sound like those parents in the 1980’s screaming about the devil when a kid dared to listen to Twisted Sister.

SmoothIsFast ,

Go suck more authoritarian regime dick, dumb ass. If I have to explain why authoritarian regimes who want to usurp global power by 2040 harvesting your data is a bad thing, you should just go check yourself into a mental institution. Like I said fuck off troll

Lightor ,

You ok?

Killercat103 ,
@Killercat103@infosec.pub avatar

I hope they win. I mean TikTok is not the only one. Not even close. But I hate platforms like these and would like to see some backlash.

alsu2launda ,

Nothing will happen, a notice will be issued and TikTok won’t give a fuck. Don’t forget it is literally owned by CCP. Why would it fear some US state.

Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow ,

The same reason NY and California can make a law and the entire industry shifts to comply? If you get banned in Utah it won’t be long before the rest of the US.

Lightor ,

So we should have the government shut down things we don’t like? Can no one see how this is a bit of a slippery slope, establishing this pattern. What if they decide lemmy needs to go and use the same reasoning.

JokeDeity ,

Downvote me all you want, but this is the way. That shit needs banned or some extreme restrictions need to be implemented. IMO it’s literally dumbing down our entire country.

alsu2launda ,

Not happening anytime soon.

Lightor ,

So limit freedom of speech that we think is dumb. No way this could backfire.

meliaesc ,

I’m completely fine putting strict age restrictions on social media.

Lightor ,

And who decides that. And who decides what is classified as “social media”? Once you give the govt this power they will be able to use to pretty liberally.

CoderKat ,

All websites where you can post comments and all multiplayer video games are social media to some degree. And would become so to an even more degree if you ever somehow magically banned kids from more mainstream sites (which is a comical pipe dream that might actually make the sites more appealing).

So basically, they’re proposing the internet be blocked for minors. No, they don’t actually mean that. You see, they want the sites they dislike to be blocked. Like Facebook. But not the things they use like Lemmy. You see, they’re better than you, so the things they like are okay. It’s just the things you like that are dumb and harmful.

JokeDeity ,

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

meliaesc ,

Your assumptions are very odd. I’m also fine with disabling comments and interaction on the entire internet for certain ages. Is it feasible? No, but I don’t think it’s infringing on rights or censoring information to require a somewhat developed brain to engage with the scientifically proven harmful aspects of “social media”.

JokeDeity ,

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

erranto ,

Local opium is better than Chinese opium.

moneyinphx ,

Can TikTok sue the Mormon church for “baiting” children into addictive and unhealthy habits?

Death_Equity ,

Only the Scientologists could win in court against the Mormons.

Karyoplasma ,

I would watch that TV show. How many seasons are you planning?

Death_Equity ,

One ok-to-good one, a solid second season, and then like 10 seasons of dragging the premise out long enough that the later seasons are a different genre, there has been 3 musical episodes, and a pretty racist allegorical twist that reveals the real enemy was another religious group that is part of an arc that never has a payoff for the final season.

The movie will air on Tubi and will be a prequel that is basically unwatchable unless you have seen all 12 seasons and 100%'d the lootbox mobile game that is exclusive to the Sony Xperia Pro II in Guam and West Taiwan.

There will be an ARG before the pilot airs. Don’t bother trying to play it, you won’t figure it out before the kids whose parents have a multicolored puzzle pieces sticker on their car.

dezmd ,
@dezmd@lemmy.world avatar

Not in Utah they couldn’t.

Death_Equity ,

You think they couldn’t blackmail Mormons? They will have more leverage than Atlas to rock their world before their afternoon audit.

Starb3an ,

Something something glass houses, something something throwing rocks

potterpockets ,

Good thing Mormons have never been known to bait children into addictive and unhealthy habits.

flipht ,

They can sue a company doing the corporate media thing very successfully, because it doesn't directly fund them....but they can't hold gun manufacturers, oil and gas companies, etc. accountable for actual harmful effects.

Is social media good? Hell no. But it isn't illegal. These kids can literally work in factories again, be married off to pedos, and these people are faking outrage to distract from all of that.

Greyghoster ,

Chinese parent company stands out here. Not sure what that has to do with parental controls and excessive time spent unless they are alleging that the Chinese government is trying to waste Utah kids time.

mojo ,

Why do they hate freedom so much?

badbytes ,

Yeah because UTAH is so good to their youth.

expr ,

No, but they’re also not wrong here.

tallwookie ,

they’re not wrong but it seems like more of a failure of parenting than anything.

ThePantser ,
@ThePantser@lemmy.world avatar

If we could trust all parents to make healthy decisions we wouldn’t need laws forcing kids to go to school or COPPA.

Jaysyn ,
@Jaysyn@kbin.social avatar

A bunch of fastfood execs just started sweating profusely.

pete_the_cat ,

I thought that was their default state.

ThePantser ,
@ThePantser@lemmy.world avatar

That’s just the meat sweats.

Pandemanium ,

Fun fact, back in the 80s, cigarette companies owned most of the food production companies. They are responsible for creating most of the addictive natural and artificial flavorings. When they got slapped for making cigarettes addictive, they quickly sold off all their food holdings because they didn’t want to be held financially responsible for making those addictive too.

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