Florida officials pitch TikTok ban for kindergartners to 12 graders: They’re calling it “Digital fentanyl that rots and robs child development.

[Ineedmoney504]

All social media should be banned for children until they reach a certain age.

And honestly it should be banned for many adults but that won't fly so nvm.

It's amazing watching this stuff rot somebody's brain in real time.

This is funny coming from us the internet age people.

We all was on Facebook before we was of age, looking at porn and pirating everything lol

Kids will just fake they age like we been doing.

 

[GnauzBookOfRhymes]

Facts. No children should have social media in any form. But what makes Tik Tok worse than any other platform?

I remember being at a family function a while back and seeing a cpl younger kids on their phones. The thing that was incredible to me was that they were swiping so quickly from one video to another. Each video was just a few seconds so it was so fast. And the videos weren't necessarily related to the same or similar topics. It reminded me of how someone in the hospital might act if they have one of those morphine drip buttons. I understand wanting to watch a show, movie, music video or even playing video games. There is some sense of continuity....there seems to be some potential "reward" whether it's listening to a song you like, finding out the ending to an interesting show or beating someone at a game. But flipping CONTINUOUSLY through 30/40/50 straight videos, each of which are less than 10 seconds long, just seems like something else is happening.

 

[jdubnyce]

No socials before 18

 

[Animal House]

To all those saying this is a good idea I feel what you’re saying BUT as we see with Florida, they keep making these demands for change of society where does it end?


All I’m saying is be careful

 

[Ineedmoney504]

If TikTok was an American company I wonder if it would be getting this same smoke

I think part of it that China is giving us kids a different algorithm them they own.

They kids are getting educational algorithms while us getting love and hip hop lol

I think the tic tok, ig reel and YouTube shorts are all to addictive for kids anyway.

 

[VoxSphere74]

Republicans are doing this because TikTok is run by the Chinese. IG, Snap, Facebook though are run by manipulative machiavellian cacs and do just as much damage but because cacs control them they don't care.

So this is just politics.

 

[8WON6]

I don’t have a tik tok but can sumone explain how it’s any worse than Vine, Twitter, Insta, YouTube shorts etc?

it's the China part of tiktok they don't like.

Instagram is much worse than tiktok. Aside actual government type agencies using Twitter to disperse information to people, you could argue twitter is worse than TikTok too.

 

[Ineedmoney504]

it's the China part of tiktok they don't like.

Instagram is much worse that than tiktok. Aside actual government type agencies using Twitter to disperse information to people, you could argue twitter is worse than TikTok too.

shyt you know the government got Facebook/ig by the balls. And can make Zuckerberg do what they want him to do also. They have no control over tic tok tho

 

[FS4LFE]

I don’t think under child under 16 should be on social media unsupervised.

 

[Sad Bunny]

fukk YouTube shorts. Demonic portal.

How so?

I don’t really watch them but see them all the time.

 

[Ineedmoney504]

How so?

I don’t really watch them but see them all the time.

For one it’s a cheat code to get views cause you break a 1-2 hour interview down into 50 parts so what you woulda got in that one video, you now got 50 videos of that same viewer count and 50 ads watched

On top of that it just keep ya you addicted going from one to another.

I drive for a living so I check out a lot of shorts and I like it, but it’s some addicting shyt is you watching shorts of full on fukkery and not learning nothing

 

[Neo. The Only. The One.]

 

[GnauzBookOfRhymes]

It's not even close to being the same thing. The internet has fundamentally changed in the last 20 years. When you and I were growing up, we had Myspace and Blackplanet, but those sites weren't filled with psychologically destructive algorithms aimed at keeping us looped into a never ending cycle of "likes" and "content". The internet for us was about communication, talking to each other. Message boards like the coli are a throwback to that era. That's not what Tik Tok is. Tik Tok is there to specifically influence the human mind - and not in a good way.

Adults are crashing out behind social media algorithms. If adults can't handle it, children definitely can't.

Damn what you said at the end about adults crashing out over social media algorithms is profound.

You're absolutely correct. It's a fukkd up world out there.

 

[Ineedmoney504]

It's not even close to being the same thing. The internet has fundamentally changed in the last 20 years. When you and I were growing up, we had Myspace and Blackplanet, but those sites weren't filled with psychologically destructive algorithms aimed at keeping us looped into a never ending cycle of "likes" and "content". The internet for us was about communication, talking to each other. Message boards like the coli are a throwback to that era. That's not what Tik Tok is. Tik Tok is there to specifically influence the human mind - and not in a good way.

Adults are crashing out behind social media algorithms. If adults can't handle it, children definitely can't.

I’m not saying it’s the same at all. I’m saying the kids will just lie and say they over 18 like we did with porn and everything else on the internet we needed to get around a age verification

 

[Mowgli]

How so?

I don’t really watch them but see them all the time.

For kids it just leads them down a rabbit hole to inappropriate videos. Even for kids.

One minute it's Minecraft videos the next it's morbid humor about people dying