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I'm not sure I understand, you mean someone would randomly stumble upon minors and then accidentally exploit them sexually? Or that TikTok makes it easy to find

I'm not sure I understand, you mean someone would randomly stumble upon minors and then accidentally exploit them sexually? Or that TikTok makes it easy to find them because it'll just present minors to you after you've swiped right on some meme dance once? I'd imagine that predators don't really need a recommendation engine to stumble upon them since they're actively looking for them. Are you suggesting they're becoming predators by accident because Tiktok showed them videos of minors?

Sakos 4y ago
Once TikTok realizes you like young girls, it'll show you more young girls. If it realizes young girls is all you care about, it will literally show you nothing else. That's a pedophile's dream right there. Chances are higher than we'd like that some of these girls are vulnerable and might mistakenly build contact with a predator which might lead to sexual exploitation.
- luckylion 4y ago
  Right, but pedophiles don't need TikTok to find children they can prey on. They'll join games, they'll join streams, they'll find them on Twitter or Instagram, on Facebook or whatever else there is. TikTok may be a more convenient platform because it's better at understanding that someone wants to see preteen girls or whatever, but it certainly isn't turning people into pedophiles or creates a situation that isn't also on any other platform. I don't think there is much anyone can do. The platforms will kill any proposal of online identification and age-gating because they'll lose money. The parents have often given up fighting their kids over media usage. And everyone else has no influence over the children, the platforms, or the predators.
- GaryNumanVevo 4y ago
  So in this situation, you were or weren't seeking out young girls in the feed? Because it sounds like TikTok was just picking up on _your_ preferences here.
  - Sakos 4y ago
    Nah. My main interests on TikTok were pretty women and funny videos. Which is why it was disturbing to me that it would keep trying to show me girls that were way too young.

Sakos 4y ago

Once TikTok realizes you like young girls, it'll show you more young girls. If it realizes young girls is all you care about, it will literally show you nothing else. That's a pedophile's dream right there. Chances are higher than we'd like that some of these girls are vulnerable and might mistakenly build contact with a predator which might lead to sexual exploitation.

luckylion 4y ago
Right, but pedophiles don't need TikTok to find children they can prey on. They'll join games, they'll join streams, they'll find them on Twitter or Instagram, on Facebook or whatever else there is. TikTok may be a more convenient platform because it's better at understanding that someone wants to see preteen girls or whatever, but it certainly isn't turning people into pedophiles or creates a situation that isn't also on any other platform. I don't think there is much anyone can do. The platforms will kill any proposal of online identification and age-gating because they'll lose money. The parents have often given up fighting their kids over media usage. And everyone else has no influence over the children, the platforms, or the predators.
GaryNumanVevo 4y ago
So in this situation, you were or weren't seeking out young girls in the feed? Because it sounds like TikTok was just picking up on _your_ preferences here.
- Sakos 4y ago
  Nah. My main interests on TikTok were pretty women and funny videos. Which is why it was disturbing to me that it would keep trying to show me girls that were way too young.