Comment on YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives

• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Bummer that they’re necessary, but they are.

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  • Virtvirt588@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah bummer that big daddy fascist leader is necessary, but they are.

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  • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They are not. It’s not the governments job to parent the nations children, (and conveniently erode our privacy in the process)

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    • krashmo@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How is this argument different from “it’s not the governments job to provide healthcare / education / social services”

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      • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Providing healthcare and social services is not inherently about controlling how people think and what information they have access to.

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  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t think they approach necessity tbh. At best, they’re a bandaid, and a crutch for parents.

    But the drawbacks of the laws that have been implemented so far, and are trying to be, as vast overreaches that give a false sense of security with no real benefit. They also do that by placing even more information into the hands of the very companies causing the problem in the first place.

    That’s where regulations would focus in an ideal world, limiting the companies from causing the problems in the first place, not slapping bad patches over them.

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  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Nanny

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