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Families sue TikTok after girls died while trying ‘blackout challenge’
- raxxorraxor 4y agoIs this really the fault of tiktok though? Wouldn't a specific peer group be really responsible? Such challenges existed long before social media, the latter just made it easier to find. I understand the families suing them but I think there is just no technical solution to this problem. It is either disallowing social media until a certain age or letting random people connect to each other. Some of those might have stupid ideas of course. Sure, you could also increase surveillance on these platforms or ban content it attracted teens in the first place. It is an overall unrealistic expectation to have that social media can be child safe and have low wage worker moderators take care of your children. Because on this scale the usual internet moderation doesn't work anymore. What I would immediately support is to have algorithms suggest the ever the same content. Many people will immediately complain, but I would prefer a precise way to search. That maybe would dampen the addiction. Perhaps children at that age just shouldn't get a smartphone. No realistic option if all their peers have one as most parents know. You can add an ID check which would drive most users away pretty quickly and this just doesn't work for most platforms.
- pietro72ohboy 4y agoTikTok’s entire business is built on amplifying and broadcasting a select few “popular” voices, it is not unreasonable to expect that TikTok ensures that there isn’t some patently dangerously advice in these videos. If they can master content distribution at scale, they must be asked to use some of their profits to police and control some of this content at scale. You cannot build a money making megaphone and then claim that everything yelled into said megaphone is free speech and shouldn’t be stopped.