6 families sue TikTok over deaths of their children after apparent ‘choking challenge’
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/6-families-sue-tiktok-over-deaths-of-their-children-after-apparent-choking-challenge/
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Mastengwe@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 204d
As much as I truly believe that TikTok fucking sucks, so much that I have everything TikTok related blocked from my web browser, suing because your kids are morons is pretty fucking dumb.
warbond@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 204d
No empathy for grieving parents? Maybe I'm just getting old.
damnedfurry@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 204d
You can have empathy while simultaneously realizing they obviously have no case.
The article quotes an attorney representing the families saying that the videos were "material they can’t turn away from". Come on, now. Those kids weren't Clockwork Orange'd. Let's return to reality.
lath@piefed.social · 16 pts · 203d
Objectively speaking, young and impressionable minds are more susceptible to falling for dark patterns.
damnedfurry@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 203d
All the more reason for parents to be actively involved with their children, especially at those ages.
Sinaf@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 203d
It doesn't cost you anything to refrain from using the word "morons" in this context... But I guess that's just the empathy.
damnedfurry@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 203d
That's why I didn't use it.
That was "Mastengwe". Pay attention to who you're replying to next time.
That goes for all of the people who upvoted your comment, too. Shameful.
Sinaf@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 200d
I should have put it differently, but "you" was meant in a general way.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social · 6 pts · 204d
What kind of parents leave their children unsupervised on the internet?
somethingsnappy@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 204d
/s? Or you don't have kids?
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 204d
There is zero part of growing up that requires access to the internet.
somethingsnappy@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 203d
I agree, but unless you don't let kids have friends, they will have access.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 203d
my parents tried many times to revoke my access.
The typical workarounds involved a trip to the dump to dig up some godforsaken machine, and maybe stopping by the library to burn an iso. Wireless adapter lacks an antenna? No problem, I'll rig up a coat hanger/paperclip/random piece of wire.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social · 0 pts · 203d
At that point, why do I need to be worried you won't do a suicide challenge?
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 203d
Don’t let your kids hang out with those who have parents you don’t know and don’t trust. It has worked for Christian parents for decades and it worked for my lesbian parents growing up in the conservative south.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social · 1 pts · 203d
I love more so your implications that atomicbocks even has the privilege of getting them an internet accessible router.
lath@piefed.social · 3 pts · 203d
That's old news. Always online is slowly being pushed even by governments because it's easier to track citizens that way.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social · -1 pts · 204d
scroll up🔼1🧵. I adopted an adult in my polycule.
Want to adopt more.
I am responsible enough to supervise their internet usage, and they know to ask me permission to record themselves online with masks & filters.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 1 pts · 200d
Your parents need to get out of that retirement home and take away your Internet
SourGumGum@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 203d
What kind of helicopter parents snoop on their children?
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social · 2 pts · 203d
You call guardianship “snooping”?
Did you lose your guardian’s trust or something?
Mastengwe@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 197d
Nope. Stupid is as stupid does. This is Darwinism at work.
eskimofry@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 204d
no empathy for not being good parents. Now they are no longer parents.
lath@piefed.social · 9 pts · 203d
Yup, they should just bury their kids and move on. That's the really smart move.
Rothe@piefed.social · 5 pts · 203d
What a bootlicking psychopathic comment.
Mastengwe@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 197d
What a childish response to something you disagree with.
AntiBullyRanger@ani.social · 1 pts · 204d
Both are at fault in this case. This is why I supervise my adoptees. I care too much about them than to let them pull dangerous stunts like these.
Tiktok should have also immediately sent law enforcement on the folks that started the challenge. Algorithms are algorithms, but even some trends are against their ToS.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 204d
and yet they take action too slow
workerONE@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 204d
After being choked unconscious there is about 7 seconds before brain damage will start to occur.
tomcatt360@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 203d
Ah, my unfun fact of the day
gladflag@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 203d
Ya reckon?!
mehrshad@piefed.social · 4 pts · 203d
Did we just skip the “Run blindfolded into oncoming traffic TikTok challenge” between tide pods and choking, or have I not been paying enough attention?
Section 230 needs a paddlin’ now that it’s clear big tech controls every platform and every corner, and Trust and Safety is nothing more than a weak tea after-the-fact press release slash out-of-court settlement promising “changes”.