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Parents are not the ones exposing their children to Tiktok. Most kids go to public school. Hopefully further elaboration is not needed for HackerNews readership
by BaculumMeumEst 4y ago
Parents are not the ones exposing their children to Tiktok. Most kids go to public school. Hopefully further elaboration is not needed for HackerNews readership.
"Teaching common sense" sounds very effective for young children with developing minds notorious for making terrible decisions. If only those parents had thought of it sooner.
- lillecarl 4y agoI don't see any argument here, kids go to public Schools and get shown TikTok. But it's not like TikTok hasn't made headlines for some time now. An engaged parent might talk to their kids about not doing the stupid things they find on TikTok. I'm not saying TikTok is right in promoting harmful things, it's like the town square lunatic on steroids, but at the end of the day kids are going to be exposed to stupid shit through all their life (as you say) so if it's not TikTok it's something else, teach your kids not to choke themselves to death intentionally.
- bergenty 4y agoCalling TikTok the town square lunatic is not an apt analogy. The town square lunatic is isolated, can’t reach a lot of people and doesn’t have peoples attention for very long. There are legions of crazies online that have banded together to really push terrible propaganda that very few adults, let alone kids would be able to resist.