Parents told to delete social media apps to prevent kids from seeing Hamas atrocities — Facebook, X, TikTok and other social media services have been filled with graphic imagery

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• RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The only way to stop kids seeing bad videos on the internet is not let them on the internet.

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  • GuyDudeman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Israel’s social media propaganda campaign has been super well-funded and is geared to really make people think that Hamas are the only bad guys here.

    Just last night I was watching youtube with my kids and there was a commercial that showed horrible stuff in support of Israel.

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    • SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah I got those ads multiple times last night along with a random maga conspiracy ad about how a bad event is happening soon and everyone should buy gas masks.

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  • Candelestine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    tbf, getting it off the major mainstream platforms would make it less likely for the really young’uns to stumble on it.

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    • RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, they should use niche sites like 4chan instead.

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    • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That only works if you’re the ultimate hipster and avoid anything popular simply because it’s popular.

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  • killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So you’re saying there’s no way to stop it?

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    • lud@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Pretty much no, if a child wants to see the videos.

      Deleting social media apps would help immensely against accident exposure, though.

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• avater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They should delete this crap regardless those atrocities because these apps simply suck and not only the kids, the adults too.

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• bappity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  if any kids are still on X it’s 100% the parents fault at this point. the place is a shithole

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t think the problem with social media is the Israel crisis…

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• Gorgeous_Sloth@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Kids shouldn’t be on social medias though.

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  • Boogiepop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not sure any of us should, tbh

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    • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Quick! Everyone get off Lemmy!

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    • BURN@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The internet was a mistake

      It brought a lot of good, but it’s destroyed multiple generations ability to concentrate and interact in good faith. I don’t think we’d necessarily be better off without it, but I think the world might be a better place

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  • GladiusB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yea. Good luck on that. Just like everything else some parents let kids do it and then the whole peer pressure things happen. Plus how the hell are they going to learn to be responsible when they are old enough unless they have some sort of exposure.

    Abstinence is a novel concept but it is not at all practical. Kids are part of society and will be part of the adults within a decade. I think it’s far better to teach them how to navigate what is going on rather than throwing blinders on them.

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  • Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I thought parents from my generation would be better equipped to ensure their kids have safe use of technology but somehow they are even more clueless than my parents were. Yet my grandpa has dementia but can use his Linux computer to bet on horse races online. Most people are just not fit for internet exposure or computers and phones in general and will get more fucked up by it and there isn’t any realistic solution.

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• Gingerlegs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Israel, cool. Palestine…DELETE IT!

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  • paintbucketholder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wait, I don’t get this argument.

    You’re saying parents are cool with it if they’re kids see atrocities committed by Israel, but as soon as a Palestinians terrorist group commits atrocities, parents don’t want their kids to see it - implying parents want to protect the reputation of Hamas?

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    • dmonzel@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      implying parents want to protect the reputation of Hamas?

      Wow, you totally missed the point. OP is implying parents should be ok with Israeli violence, but not ok with Palestinian violence.

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• schwim@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m not saying this sarcastically but with honest confusion, is the warning from an entity or group that hasn’t spent a lot of time on the internet? I’m not young by any stretch of the imagination and people have had very easy,almost accidental access to horrific imagery and media since the advent of the internet. Fake titled gore on Napster, image boards, etc.

  I will say the quality/detail of the content has gotten disturbingly more clear. That part makes it more disturbing to me. The Ukraine community has a shocking amount of drone video where it’s like a front row seat to the last seconds of someone’s life.

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  • trash80@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The article isn’t very specific.

    American and Israeli parents say they have received messages from schools, temples, synagogues and peers following the Hamas terror attack urging them to delete social media applications off their kids’ phones.

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• AWittyUsername@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What about Israeli atrocities?

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  • Land_Strider@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They have to go about this route to reach the kids so kids won’t see stuff, but nevertheless hear about them to have an opinion:

    Israeli Government: ‘Genocidal rage face under the reasonable face mask’ We have a right to defend ourselves by bombing civilians because of x reasons

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    U.S. President: Our allies have a right to defend themselves against terrorist attacks

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    Mainstream media: Holocaust survivors facing the same horrors at the hands of Palestinian terrorists must take every measure to defend themselves

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    Parents watching mainstream media only: Look how these barbarian Arabs without blue eyes and blonde hair are causing never before seen atrocities

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    Kids

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  • Wakmrow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My tiktok feed is incredibly unkind to Israel with the footage of children either dead or weeping at the hospital beds of their parents. That is why this is happening. That is why they shut off the Internet and electricity in Gaza and that is why they want you to shut off your Internet as well. If you see what is happening in Gaza there’s a real possibility that global public opinion turns incredibly hard on the Israeli government.

    I’ve seen about 5 reporters break down crying on tiktok. I watched a doctor treating a patient learn about his children dying in an airstrike. This isn’t even graphic content. It is the raw human emotion and fear. Palestinians are putting out their goodbyes on social media and it’s heartbreaking.

    The Israeli government is a far right fascist government and it knows it can’t survive without Western support. This time it’s already well out what they’re doing. Even their defense of saying they have to fight against Hamas is ringing hollow. You can’t decry the death of Israeli civilians and then the world watches you bomb ambulances on Facebook.

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  • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What about footage from war in the last decade or so?..

    They (those who wrote the article and those making such warnings) are just trying to stay in trend.

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• ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  lol, Zionist media pretending Israel isn’t currently pushing Palestine into the sea like they always said they would.

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• LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I haven’t seen a single graphic image of the conflict in at least 4 hours of swiping the past day or two.

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  • shasta@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Some people are better at avoiding ads than others

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  • newIdentity@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I haven’t seen graphic images in… basically forever. It’s been at least half a year

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    • Neon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      basically forever. It’s been at least half a year.

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  • atrios@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    its mostly on telegram, reddit enacted a sitewide ban on images from that conflict {even though there is plenty of ukraine footage) 5 days ago

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• Krompus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The messages from schools and Jewish religious institutions underscore the sense of fear that has taken root worldwide after Hamas terrorists stormed into Israel on Saturday, killing hundreds of people. Israel’s counteroffensive has killed hundreds thousands of people in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  American and Israeli parents say they have received messages from schools, temples, synagogues and peers following the Hamas terror attack urging them to delete social media applications off their kids’ phones.

  “It has come to our attention that deeply disturbing videos, including footage of hostages, may be spread across social media in the near future,” a principal at a public school in New York City said in an email this week, quoting from a message she said had been forwarded to her.

  The messages from schools and Jewish religious institutions underscore the sense of fear that has taken root worldwide after Hamas terrorists stormed into Israel on Saturday, killing hundreds of people.

  TikTok, which has community guidelines barring violent content, plans to add another layer of protection to the platform amid the conflict, including additional moderation resources, blocking hashtags that promote violence and proactive fact-checking around misleading narratives, according to a spokesperson for the Chinese-owned service.

  In recent years, leading social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter have come under intense scrutiny for hosting video, photo and audio content that might be harmful to teenagers and children, including images related to terrorism, gun violence, suicide and self-harm.

  In response, some platforms have rolled out stricter parental controls, assembled moderation teams and invested in automated systems designed to quickly spot harmful content.

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