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What was particularly bad about India's situation?

• preciousoo 3y ago
  I believe children were killing other children /themselves based on TikTok trends (don’t remember full details)
  • cipheredStones 3y ago
    Does "children are killing each other because of what they saw online" sound more like a real thing or more like a moral panic to you?
    • mangosteenjuice 3y ago
      This isn't the 1990s. The majority of kids with access to smartphones are online now.
    • preciousoo 3y ago
      https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/tiktok-challenge-boy-hangs-self-wearing-mangalsutra-bangles-kota-rajasthan-1553087-2019-06-20 https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/tiktok-challenge-boy-h...
    • thaumasiotes 3y ago
      India had a military exchange with China and banned TikTok alongside several other Chinese apps in retaliation. Their official justification was "national security concerns". preciousoo is, charitably, just making things up for no reason.
      • preciousoo 3y ago
        I very much remember reading such an article around the time they banned TT, but maybe said article was fake news, as it's hard to find any mentions of it now.
      • dd_xplore 3y ago
        Well National security isn't wrong considering the huge amount of data being siphoned off to the communist party.
  • PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y ago
    that's a pretty bold statement, can we get a link backing that up?