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.
Great! Now sue Facebook and Instagram.
I dunno, if they get a ruling here with a big enough splash this might actually spread to them too.
It’ll all depend on if they can establish a solid enough case centered around the addictive nature of the content presentation algorithm, and getting it banned in favor of something like chronological content ordering.
Good thing Mormons have never been known to bait children into addictive and unhealthy habits.
Yeah because UTAH is so good to their youth.
No, but they’re also not wrong here.
Utah. Sacred home of the Mormon cult. Is suing, unironically I might add, for the above reasons…
TikTok should countersue.
Somebody needs to bleed that cult ASAP. 🤷🏼♂️
They have hundreds of billions in assets, sadly. They’re not going anywhere.
Well, at least until someone commandeers their colony ship, right? 🤞🏼
We need the Scientologists to start shit with the Mormons.
I can’t see this surviving a first amendment challenge, but we’ll see.
It won’t, but that’s not the point. Gov. Spencer Cox is campaigning. Ever notice how politicians get real busy and start hitting hard with stuff like this when election season is near?
Think of the children. Vote for me or the gay Chinese Democrats will take your kids.
Mostly just a specific of ideology politicians, in my experience.
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winning at all costs with no ethics, you mean.
Exactly. That kind of politican.
(you’ll know you’re in a control state if you think I’m hitting at either party in particular)
I think it could be regulated to a positive effect. We regulate all sorts of things that are addictive, see gambling and substances. We also regulate speech on broadcast TV and radio. And, children should be given elevated protections to data harvesting which is what these companies are really doing. Do i expect the government to fuck this up? Absolutely, but don’t let people hide behind first amendment bullshit to avoid the conversation.
Note that I think it’s awful. This won’t fix it.
Can TikTok sue the Mormon church for “baiting” children into addictive and unhealthy habits?
Only the Scientologists could win in court against the Mormons.
I would watch that TV show. How many seasons are you planning?
Why can’t Republicans control their kids? Why are they always asking the state to do it for them?
The government they want less of at that.
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.
Something something glass houses, something something throwing rocks
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.
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If we could trust all parents to make healthy decisions we wouldn’t need laws forcing kids to go to school or COPPA.
Local opium is better than Chinese opium.
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.
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.
“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.
It’s a Chinese spying and propaganda machine. Fuck off…
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?
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.
