TikTok is one of hundreds of vectors to swindle the senile and I doubt it’s even in the top 10.
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FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 6 months agoYou can’t educate dementia away. You can educate youth away, but that takes years, which would effectively be a ban for them. TikTok is not a tool for its users, it is a tool for a for profit corporation and by extension their associated foreign dictatorship.
Clent@lemmy.world 6 months ago
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 6 months ago
That pretty much describes every corporation in existence.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 6 months ago
Some of them provide utility and some don’t, which is why we don’t allow children to drink, smoke, or gamble. If a company providing those goods and services targets those demographics it gets political action.
Welcome to the nuance of society and the modern world.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 6 months ago
But they’re not disallowing children smoking, drinking, or gambling here. It’s more akin to disallowing children from drinking Smirnoff, smoking Marlboros, or playing blackjack and nothing else.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 6 months ago
Reigning any of them in is a step in the right direction.