• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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    2 years ago

    You can’t educate dementia away. You can educate youth away, but that takes years, which would effectively be a ban for them. TikTok is not a tool for its users, it is a tool for a for profit corporation and by extension their associated foreign dictatorship.

    Absolute freedom should not extend to harming each other.

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      2 years ago

      TikTok is not a tool for its users, it is a tool for a for profit corporation

      That pretty much describes every corporation in existence.

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        2 years ago

        Some of them provide utility and some don’t, which is why we don’t allow children to drink, smoke, or gamble. If a company providing those goods and services targets those demographics it gets political action.

        Welcome to the nuance of society and the modern world.

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      2 years ago

      TikTok is one of hundreds of vectors to swindle the senile and I doubt it’s even in the top 10.

      Grandpa needs to have someone else handling his finances. It’s not the governments job and let’s not pretend this bill is about keeping grandpas money safe.