Comment on "It's Silencing" - Albania Shuts Down TikTok.

• Fedditor385@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Quite a lot of kids and teenagers have the same reaction to taking away their phone, as addicts have when taking away their drugs. I don’t think education can solve problems that are already affecting peoples mental and physical state. Not giving kids TikTok is same as not giving kids to much sugar. In small doses and controlled yes, but nothing you would give them free unlimited access to.

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  • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    First of all, how is not giving and not giving too much the same?

    Kids aren’t stupid, explain why it is bad/dangerous, best before first install of tiktok. And TikTok is not the only place in the web with shorts, hell even twich has them now. You need to educate your kids before letting the ho into WWW alone.

    With a good education, you can get you child rejecting too much sugar on their own, btw.

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    • Fedditor385@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Kids aren’t stupid

      Well, they ain’t smart either… Even adults know better but still many end up in situations that are preventable if you have just some small amount of rational thinking. Also… you first need to know it yourself, to be able to educate your kids. Most parents didn’t grow up with TikTok nor do they use it themselves. How to educate your kids about dangers you yourself don’t know or understand?

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      • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Kids are like a white paper, experience is what makes a kid “stupid” / “smart” or just to who they are.

        But yea, I agree, that many adults have not the education they would need to educate a kid properly. There should in my opinion be support from society (like with government founding) that ensures parents can get educated enough. The society would profit highly from such efforts, I think, as well educated people can look after themself and are less likely generating costs that society (through taxes) has to pay compared to less educated people.

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    • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Kids aren’t stupid,

      Kids aren’t necessarily stupid. But, same as the adults who they grow into, most are.

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      • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I refuse to believe that most people are stupid.

        Hope you agree that not well educated is not the same as stupid.

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• Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  They already have the drug. Education is going to do nothing. They need rehab;this is much more helpful, making it less accessible to future children. Worst case they get more tech literate finding their way around the bans

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  • Petter1@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yea, but you gotta educate the next generation and not only children are affected by this addiction.

    Meaning if you ban for children, they have no way to educate themselves and when they suddenly get access, the addiction hits even harder.

    Some rehab may be required, but forced rehabs generally don’t work, you have to get the affected person wanting to go.

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    • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You can educate and ban. That’s what my school did… Teach you the real issues with drugs, not just the dare shit lol

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