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TikTok Serves Up Sex and Drug Videos to Minors
- vanillax 5y agopaywall
- throwaway87823 5y agowho cares? that's internet. they will find porn and violent videos sooner or later.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- robbedpeter 5y agoIt's up to parents and culture and individuals. No state solution can meet the parameters of privacy and do anything impactful with regards to content filtering, and we should be fed up with "but think of the children" as a prelude to further losses of civil liberty.
- Ekaros 5y agoAnd there really isn't any effective ways to stop them from finding this type of content. And I don't really trust any automated moderation methods either... Only realistic option is curated content, but by whom and with what political agenda? And what is the point, they can find it outside anyway, as there is no real way to lock down everything.
- mngnt 5y agohttps://archive.is/N1nJn https://archive.is/N1nJn
- webmobdev 5y agoIt's not just TikTok, Youtube also has similar problems: - The disturbing YouTube videos that are tricking children: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-39381889 https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-39381889 - YouTube is reportedly pointing kids to thousands of disturbing, violent, and inappropriate videos: https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/youtube-is-reportedly-pointing-kids-to-thousands-of-disturbing-violent-and-inappropriate-videos/articleshow/61569050.cms https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/youtube-is-reportedly-po... - On YouTube, a network of paedophiles is hiding in plain sight: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/youtube-pedophile-videos-advertising https://www.wired.co.uk/article/youtube-pedophile-videos-adv...
- peanut_worm 5y agoNo child is going to be mentally scarred for seeing softcore porn or someone doing a bong rip. I don’t think there is anything that bad on TikTok that a teenager cannot handle it. It says in the article that parents have to approve accounts for children under 18 anyways. If you let your kid on the internet without supervision they are probably going to see the worst things imaginable, thats the price of unfettered communication. Don’t let your kid on TikTok if you want to shelter them.
- qwertyuiop_ 5y agoThe CCP found an effective way to manipulate an entire generation.
- AustinDev 5y agoI still don't understand how most people on HN don't realize TikTok is a tool of the CCP to manipulate the West.
- shostack 5y agoSerious questions: how is it manipulating people? To what end? Is there any proof of this? I don't doubt the government could get them to do what they want. But what would it manifest as?
- rvz 5y ago> TikTok is a tool of the CCP to manipulate the West. If you're going to say such claims they must be substantiated with strong evidence. Do you have such evidence to substantiate this? 'Search it up' isn't evidence.
- AustinDev 5y ago>https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/04/politics/tik-tok-black-lives-matter/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/04/politics/tik-tok-black-lives-... This was the easiest to find although I support the cause. The point is that cause is somehow divisive in the USA and promotes discord and in-fighting, which is objectively in the interest of the CCP.
- csb6 5y agoThe CCP is not mentioned once in the article, nor are its supposed plans for TikTok, nor are any attempts by TikTok to stoke political division. In fact, TikTok briefly (supposedly by accident) hid posts related to Black Lives Matter. Presenting examples of social turmoil being shown on TikTok does not prove that TikTok was created to cause turmoil. Another explanation is that people simply post about social turmoil on social media, and one popular social media platform is TikTok. Twitter had all of the same content about protests, etc. Does that mean Twitter is controlled by the CCP?
- csb6 5y agoThis is a headline straight out of 2005 (or 1995): “The World Wide Web is Serving Up Sex and Drug Pictures to Minors”. Very much a moral panic headline. I wonder what material impact seeing a video of boobs or people doing drugs actually has on minors. Like are they supposedly thinking, “I am going to go have unsafe sex now because I saw people do it on TikTok”? Social media is so ephemeral and detached from the actual physical acts depicted in it that I don’t see how seeing “immoral” posts would materially affect a child’s behavior. If your kid is receiving and retaining subliminal moral instruction from browsing social media it means they are not getting it from elsewhere.
- unmole 5y agoTobacco companies deployed agressive product placement in Hollywood to make cigarettes cool. Because they knew that people are more likely to engage in behaviour that is seen as cool. While there isn't corporate action pushing drug use, its depiction in popular culture does have the same effect.
- dhanna 5y agoI’ve been looking at porn since I was 11. I feel hypersexualized but there was no stopping me from going on Bangbros lol. Kids are going to expose themselves to this material out of curiosity and hormones.
- legerdemain 5y agoIn our family, we've given our kids dumbphones and (I kid you not) pagers. They can play with their friends' phones, but that's obviously pretty limited. And thanks to Covid, we've been much better about getting the kids to keep to themselves and focus on classes. They're 11 and 9, so we'll see how it goes when they get older.
- RobLach 5y agoYah, because it's cool.
- orloffm 5y agoThis is obviously an anti-China propaganda piece. It's not that Xi is throwing TikTok-preloaded Xiaomis onto Amish villages from the sky. That "WAP" song was THE mainstream last year, and it's widely known that Snapchat, for example, shows ads/stories that are way beyond what would be considered normal to show to kids.