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TikTok ‘directs child accounts to pornographic content within a few clicks’
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2025
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How about you force age responsible onto the parents? Or at least tax them.
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.
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:
(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.
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.
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.
Teach them mechanisms of psychological control and propaganda–how-to, so they recognize when it happens.