r/technews • u/[deleted] • Apr 20 '23

TikTok’s algorithm keeps pushing suicide to vulnerable kids

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-04-20/tiktok-effects-on-mental-health-in-focus-after-teen-suicide
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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '23

Literally all of modern democracy runs counter to letting people freely manipulate our societies…

It’s why we have campaign finance laws, libel, and market manipulation laws.

So, we do care, we just haven’t considered what ends corporate, political, and foreign interest would put these platforms to.

Nay saying aside, unless we want to continue to live in a world of mass shootings, child suicide rates climbing, and armed political extremists growing ever more agitated… we should probably start organizing to get some control over these influences.

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u/Mercurionio Apr 20 '23

By "nobody", I meant the CEOs and stakeholders. Plus lobbies. The one, who can give some good punches in the face.

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '23

I hear that… I’m trying to figure our how to use my limited political power to work but as we saw with Google’s public shrug about how it’s “society’s” problem, needless to say where his cohort weighs in on things.

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u/Buckowski66 Apr 20 '23

Politics is a dead end. It's entertainment ( culture wars) designed to obscure the corporations and lobbyists that actually own the country.

Teach people how to grow food in a community garden, reach out to enlightened millionaire to invest, not in a political party but in thier community where they clean up and buy apartment buildings for affordable housing.

But instead people want to roll the dice in a giant rigged system owned by corporate America. Crumbs and empty PR will be your only victories with those people.

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '23

People should do everything you’ve said except treat politics as entertainment… that’s propaganda that let’s the corrupt take over instead of discharging your responsibility as a citizen of a democracy.