A bipartisan group of 14 attorneys general from across the country allege that the company uses addictive features to hook children to the app and that it has intentionally misled the public about the safety of prolonged use.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James said young people across the country had died or been injured doing TikTok “challenges” and many others were feeling “more sad, anxious and depressed because of TikTok’s addictive features”.

She cited a 15-year-old boy, who died in Manhattan while “subway surfing” - riding on top of a moving subway car. His mother later found TikTok videos of such activity on his phone, she said.

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Regulators have launched similar cases against Facebook and Instagram for their impact on young people’s mental health.

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The Federal Trade Commission, a government watchdog, accused TikTok in August of violating child privacy laws.

  • @Steve@communick.news
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    Is that why Meta is also being sued over the negative mental health effects of Facebook and Instagram?
    They too are promoting a non-western narrative?

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          My friend, do you think China does not benefit from the destabilization caused by putting the USA’s blatant support of the ongoing genocide in Gaza on display for all the world to see? Does China have USA’s best interest at heart, no. Is this platform allowing the continued growth of Pro-Palestine support, yes.

            • @SoupBrick
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              Censorship, what does that have to do with the current conversation of the United States attempts at censorship of the Pro-Palestine narrative?

              • @tardigrada@beehaw.orgOP
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                @SoupBrick

                So banning social media platforms for censorship is okay, but if you do the same for protecting children’s mental health it is not? Isn’t that weird?

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                  Ah, a troll gotcha. Nowhere did I say China was good. That is just a bad faith take. I was hoping you were actually trying to learn. Don’t bother responding, you are blocked.

                  • @tardigrada@beehaw.orgOP
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                    @SoupBrick@yiffit.net

                    Nowhere did I say China was good. That is just a bad faith take. I was hoping you were actually trying to learn. Don’t bother responding, you are blocked.

                    It is a ‘bad faith take’ if one thinks that ‘China is good’? Is that right?

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                    I think blocking is bad esp in a small community but that person clearly suffering from a made enemy syndrome. based on this exchange. i still don’t get the angel tbh.

                • @Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de
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                  Car dependency has created a world that forces children to live online since they can’t do anything outside without their parents driving them around. So I just don’t see how banning TikTok does anything to address the root problem. Banning Tiktok does nothing to solve the root issue of lacking 3rd places and community.

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        The federal ban is for ByteDance not TickTok.
        And that’s unrelated to the states filing this law suit.