Despite platform’s limits on adult content, study finds it not only accessible but often suggested
TikTok has directed children’s accounts to pornographic content within a small number of clicks, according to a report by a campaign group.
Global Witness set up fake accounts using a 13-year-old’s birth date and turned on the video app’s “restricted mode”, which limits exposure to “sexually suggestive” content.
Researchers found TikTok suggested sexualised and explicit search terms to seven test accounts that were created on clean phones with no search history.
But its ok. We are making adults provide ID so they can access adult material theyre legally allowed to access- UK government.
Daily reminder to stop using TikTok 🤗
applies to most for profit social media
applies to
mostall for profit social media
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 difference I suppose is deliberately looking for it vs the algorithm feeding it to them
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.
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:
- 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.
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.
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.
Guardian minimises Israeli genocide while holding Russia to account as it should
That’s the new MAGA feature
I’m shocked! Shocked!
Anyone remember when tiktok was called musically? It was basically a dispo for pedos
I didn’t think that this needed to be said, but I suppose it does.
IT IS NOT OK TO FUCK CHILDREN,PULL YOUR DICK OUT AND DO STUFF TO THEM WITH IT OR MAKE THEM DO STUFF WITH YOUR DICK. IT IS NOT OK TO LURE KIDS IN WITH THE END GOAL OF FUCKING OR MOLESTING THEM. THIS IS VERY BAD AND YOU SHOULD NEVER DO IT. RICH WHITE PEOPLE, THIS IS MAINLY FOR YOU.
There, I hope that helps.
While I agree with your statement, that’s not really what this article is about.
I do tend to get off topic.
Hentai is just Japanese cartoons, right? RIGHT???
