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

L4sBot · 9 months ago

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

@FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works · 9 months ago

They will impose a digital curfew on people under 18, which will require minors to get parental consent to sign up for social media apps and force companies to verify the ages of all their Utah users.

This is laughable. I played this game before with my own kids. I would find their new Myspace account and have it removed. They would just go to a friends house whose parents didn’t care and sign up for a new one. It was a back and forth. Then my now-ex started arguing with me about it once the kids started whining about it. Now they are grown and can do whatever they want. It was a battle I was never going to win, but if Utah thinks they can manage this, I would love to watch. Gonna go make some popcorn.

@Crikeste@lemm.ee · 9 months ago

Utahns are ACTIVELY playing this game with porn sites right now. Curious as to how that’s working for them.

@GenderNeutralBro · 9 months ago

Trying to split the internet into “adults’” and “children’s” sections is never going to work — not without a mandatory ID system that nobody wants — nobody who isn’t attached to a spy organization or totalitarian regime, at least. You can’t treat it like alcohol or tobacco because nobody’s giving away alcohol and tobacco for free; we restrict access primarily at the point of sale. There’s no point of sale for social media, and no comparable way to restrict it.

However, what you can do is regulate advertising to the point where the dark patterns used by data-harvesting platforms like TikTok, Google, Facebook, etc. are simply not commercially viable. The EU is moving in that direction already.