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TikTok ‘directs child accounts to pornographic content within a few clicks’
(www.theguardian.com)
Daily reminder to stop using TikTok 🤗
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2025
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applies to most for profit social media
applies to ~~most~~ all for profit social media
Social media is pretty unhealthy, honestly. Especially when used excessively, no matter if it's for profit or not.
Even non-social media. Find some local newspaper that can't afford a website but cares about their readers
ok thanks
I didn't look back after switching to rednote the first time Tiktok was threatened.
I wouldn't exactly put any trust in rednote either
If they showed millions of children pornography, the CEO would probably be in prison.
As for rednote being used to amplify narratives supported by the CPC, as an American, that is preferable to any other sizable social media I have access to except discord, where the same occurs except at the behest of the US.
At least when I report nazis on xhs, they get banned.
13 year old kid: "Yea! That was what I was looking for!"
One more lever to force age verification / personal identification of users.
The problem is that they're being served adult content despite the site knowing they're underage, so age verification wouldn't help at all... If anything, this is a demonstration as to why age verification isn't a good solution.
If anything, this is a demonstration as to why age verification isn't a good solution.
Won't stop surveillance state bad actors from arguing exactly the opposite, though.
You're absolutely right, but it's not like facts matter anymore in this regard.
How about you force age responsible onto the parents? Or at least tax them.
With this kind of thing there needs to be more help than that, because there isn't social consensus (yet) around keeping kids away from personalised-algorithm-controlled services. That means there is intense pressure on parents to let their kids use tiktok, instagram and so on, and if they resist that pressure they're forcing their child into isolation from the socialising that's going on on these platforms.
There are two acceptable options I see, but both require societal change which probably can't happen without top-down intervention:
- get kids off these services altogether
- let kids carry on using them but enforce at least that accounts which are self-declared to be minors are not shown the kind of unacceptable content we're talking about.
(It may be that 1 is the only acceptable option but I haven't seen anything robust on the harms so far).
"Forcing age responsible" (if I understand that...) onto parents is no use if they do the right thing and make sure their kid's account is marked as under 18 but it then receives mature content anyway.
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I dns block TikTok and they kids aren’t allowed on any meta properties. I expect that there will be more pushback in the next couple years.
My challenge truly is figuring out how to arm them to be able to process and critically evaluate social media without exposure to it. Truth in andvertising, and recently AI.
Increasingly I think that it’s a matter of educating them about the risks, like drugs and alcohol. As if that works, unfortunately.
Teach them mechanisms of psychological control and propaganda–how-to, so they recognize when it happens.
Increasingly I think that it’s a matter of educating them about the risks, like drugs and alcohol. As if that works, unfortunately.
i mean just because our generations (i'm assuming you're somewhere within 20 years of me) completely fucked that up via overexaggerating risks doesn't mean we have to do that to the next ones. we can fuck up in our own special way.
I truly appreciate you, you are doing a stand up job. Thank you for being a parent. I wish you could teach the other clowns in this country.
i mean, yeah, but also kids are going to figure out how to get on the more accessible parts of the internet that we really would prefer they don't go on. there's part of me that thinks yeah, make a law but make it toothless, so you have to earn your porn. learn how to vpn or tor or whatever. computer illiteracy is a problem.
Your same argument can be used about kids figuring out about getting around the show a government i.d. to access "adult sites"
i'm glad we're agreeing. i think. kids need to learn how to get around government id checks
Yes that will make the world a better place and usher in a new era /s
But its ok. We are making adults provide ID so they can access adult material theyre legally allowed to access- UK government.
Are we talking like actual porn on tiktok or just women dancing in bikinis? Because one of those used to be called the MTV channel, and the other was always being accessed by teens with a few clicks.
The search function immediately suggesting very rude videos and rude girls etc, probably softcore but weird to recommend to accounts set up as 13 year olds with age restrictions
The difference I suppose is deliberately looking for it vs the algorithm feeding it to them
Actual nudity was never allowed on tiktok. But kink is fine.
Tiktok was taken over by fanatical Zionist Larry Ellison.
When conservatives run something, children get fucked.
There's porn on tiktok? Have I been missing out??
Not porn. More like borderline sfw softcore. For a kid it’s more than enough though.
I can't tell if you're being facetious or not but perhaps you don't remember when the biggest "stars" on tiktok were 15 year olds dancing in bikinis....
That's not cool but also not porn.
🤮🤮🤮 I have watched maybe 3 tiktok videos in my life
That’s the new MAGA feature
When i was younger i got my kicks from the murdoch press newspapers, smh, lock those things up
I'm shocked! Shocked!
Lol speedrunning
I fucking hate tiktok. Never understood how this braincaser got allowed into the EU in the first place. Maybe I am just an old angry dumbass, but when I first started using it in my marketing team back in 2019, it just shouted cancer every post I saw. This thing should never been allowed for children. Also, read the terms of the app..
Guardian minimises Israeli genocide while holding Russia to account as it should
Anyone remember when tiktok was called musically? It was basically a dispo for pedos