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Utah sues TikTok, alleging it lures children into addictive and destructive social media habits

Utah sues TikTok, alleging it lures children into addictive and destructive social media habits::Utah has become the latest state to sue TikTok, alleging the social media company is “baiting” children into addictive and unhealthy habits.

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apnews.com /article/utah-tiktok-lawsuit-social-media-children-2e8ab3cfc92b58224ed9be98394278e0

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I mean, they’re not wrong but Instagram, Facebook, etc should also be in that lawsuit.
- Because Meta ain’t Chinese and makes large donations to both political parties.
Will they apply same logic to….lets say a 200 billion dollar hedge fund disguised as a ~~cult~~ religion?
- Not sure if referencing Crypto scams, MLMs, or the Mormon church. All are common in Utah
Mormonism is far worse
- I bet they're losing a lot of their kids from their religion because of what's on there. That was my immediate thought.
- It's possible for more than one thing to be bad, we don't have to pick just one of the two.
  
  "worse" generally means more bad than another thing that is also bad.
- That's not true at all. Are members of the Church of Jesus Christ misguided in how they treat their fellow members and their youth? Yes. But its fundamental teachings (not the toxic traditions of the members) are one of peace, love, and hope. This type of comment is rude, and offensive, and if it were regarding another group this kind of comment would be downvoted. But because it's against a religion it's ok to shit on their beliefs? This sentiment only breeds toxicity, and if we really want to help others who are affected by the toxic behaviors of all groups, we need to start with ourselves and how we treat (and look at) those whose beliefs differ from our own.
  
  blah blah blah blahhhhhh is all i read.
  Nah mormonism isnt even a religion its an evil pedophilic cult and all who willingly follow it are dumb cunts who all can go fuck themsleves. They are not misguided you dumb fuck they are brainwashed into believing bullshit made up by a grave robbing con artist out of desperation to make money. An evil cult that restricts progress and keeps its congregation blind and dumb.
  Yah this comment is meant to be rude, offensive, and disrespectful to mormonism and mormons good job champ for figuring it out.
  your comment is so fucking dumb holy shit.
  
  This is total nonsense. Educate yourself, start here. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_teachings_on_skin_color
Good. Now sue the rest of the social media companies for the same thing.
- Facebook lures middle aged women into......
I wouldn't take issue with this if X, Meta (for Instagram,) and Google (for YouTube Shorts) were getting sued as well. But I don't think TikTok should be singled out.
"We're going to be the ones who indoctrinate your kids" (Utah was founded by Mormons, oops I mean The Corporation of the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Gotta use the actual name.)
They should treat these social media companies like they did the silk road creator.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
TikTok lures children into hours of social media use, misrepresents the app’s safety and deceptively portrays itself as independent of its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, Utah claims in the lawsuit.
Arkansas and Indiana have filed similar lawsuits while the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to decide whether state attempts to regulate social media platforms such as Facebook, X and TikTok violate the Constitution.
Research has shown that children who spend more than three hours a day on social media double their risk of poor mental health, including anxiety and depression, the lawsuit alleges.
The lawsuit seeks to force TikTok to change its “destructive behavior” while imposing fines and penalties to fund education efforts and otherwise address damage done to Utah children, Reyes said.
They will impose a digital curfew on people under 18, which will require minors to get parental consent to sign up for social media apps and force companies to verify the ages of all their Utah users.
They also require tech companies to give parents access to their kids’ accounts and private messages, raising concern among some child advocates about further harming children’s mental health.
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- They will impose a digital curfew on people under 18, which will require minors to get parental consent to sign up for social media apps and force companies to verify the ages of all their Utah users.
  This is laughable. I played this game before with my own kids. I would find their new Myspace account and have it removed. They would just go to a friends house whose parents didn't care and sign up for a new one. It was a back and forth. Then my now-ex started arguing with me about it once the kids started whining about it. Now they are grown and can do whatever they want. It was a battle I was never going to win, but if Utah thinks they can manage this, I would love to watch. Gonna go make some popcorn.
  
  Utahns are ACTIVELY playing this game with porn sites right now. Curious as to how that’s working for them.
  
  Trying to split the internet into "adults'" and "children's" sections is never going to work — not without a mandatory ID system that nobody wants — nobody who isn't attached to a spy organization or totalitarian regime, at least. You can't treat it like alcohol or tobacco because nobody's giving away alcohol and tobacco for free; we restrict access primarily at the point of sale. There's no point of sale for social media, and no comparable way to restrict it.
  However, what you can do is regulate advertising to the point where the dark patterns used by data-harvesting platforms like TikTok, Google, Facebook, etc. are simply not commercially viable. The EU is moving in that direction already.
for some reason I feel like this has no legs

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