TikTok A social media menance

[HONDO74]

Viral TikTok school threat rumors: Students arrested nationwide as officials track down social media posts
Unverified rumors of general threats to schools spread on social media across the country Thursday.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/viral-tiktok ... s-arrested

At least a dozen students were arrested Thursday and Friday in connection to threat rumors on TikTok and other social media apps that went viral Thursday, according to local officials and reports.

Students across the country made unverified threats to schools on social media apps including TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram on Thursday, prompting schools and other local officials to take action.

Heightened precautions taken amid threat rumors led to a number of student arrests on Thursday in Miramar, Florida; Palm Coast, Florida; Frederick, Maryland; Naugatuck, Connecticut; Watsonville, California; Lake Geneva, Wisconsin; Wyoming, Ohio; and others, according to local police departments.

Three of the arrests involved 13-year-old males who shared threats on social media in Palm Coast, Frederick and Naugatuck. The Miramar arrest involved a 16-year-old male who is accused of bringing a firearm onto school grounds. A 14 year old was arrested for making direct threats in the city of Wyoming, according to FOX19 Cincinnati. The juvenile arrested in Watsonville made direct threats on Instagram on Thursday that police believe were related to the TikTok trend, police said.

The Lee County Sheriff's Office in Florida arrested three teenagers on Thursday for making shooting and bomb threats to schools on social media.

[E7]

Maybe they who enabled the deeds of these young people need to be hammered! Kind of like leaving a loaded gun where others can access it!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Maybe they who enabled the deeds of these young people need to be hammered! Kind of like leaving a loaded gun where others can access it!

Hilarious......you mean actually hold parents accountable? They're the ones clamoring for protection of their little dears and darlings from TikTok (really?), Instagram, Facebook, etc.

Of course, the flip side is that if Gov't intercedes then it's infringing on parent's rights and personal freedoms (to be stupid, probably...).

I'm agreeing with you, but it's not a 1 dimensional problem with a 1 dimensional solution.

[v8vega]

I have TikTok on my iphone, some of them are really clever, I quit looking at it though as it really wears down your battery

[E7]

Of course, the flip side is that if Gov't intercedes then it's infringing on parent's rights and personal freedoms (to be stupid, probably...).

I'm agreeing with you, but it's not a 1 dimensional problem with a 1 dimensional solution.

When the parents aren't doing their job, perhaps the government should "parent" the parents!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Of course, the flip side is that if Gov't intercedes then it's infringing on parent's rights and personal freedoms (to be stupid, probably...).

I'm agreeing with you, but it's not a 1 dimensional problem with a 1 dimensional solution.

When the parents aren't doing their job, perhaps the government should "parent" the parents!

Right............so you're in favor of what kind of Gov't now?

[E7]

Right............so you're in favor of what kind of Gov't now?

Definitely NOT King Rufus!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Right............so you're in favor of what kind of Gov't now?

Definitely NOT King Rufus!

Wouldn't want the job. In fact, anyone that does should be immediately disqualified due to insanity.

[robert.]

Of course, the flip side is that if Gov't intercedes then it's infringing on parent's rights and personal freedoms (to be stupid, probably...).

I'm agreeing with you, but it's not a 1 dimensional problem with a 1 dimensional solution.

When the parents aren't doing their job, perhaps the government should "parent" the parents!

Right............so you're in favor of what kind of Gov't now?

Confucianism. Harmony through skilled judgment rather than knowledge of rules.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

When the parents aren't doing their job, perhaps the government should "parent" the parents!

Right............so you're in favor of what kind of Gov't now?

Confucianism. Harmony through skilled judgment rather than knowledge of rules.

I guess that might work if you live on island by yourself; sort of like a committee that actually gets something done.

[HONDO74]

This Should be interesting to see what happens.....

Seattle schools sue tech giants over social media harm
https://www.ky3.com/2023/01/08/seattle- ... edia-harm/

SEATTLE (AP) — The public school district in Seattle has filed a novel lawsuit against the tech giants behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat, seeking to hold them accountable for the mental health crisis among youth.

Seattle Public Schools filed the lawsuit Friday in U.S. District Court. The 91-page complaint says the social media companies have created a public nuisance by targeting their products to children.

It blames them for worsening mental health and behavioral disorders including anxiety, depression, disordered eating and cyberbullying; making it more difficult to educate students; and forcing schools to take steps such as hiring additional mental health professionals, developing lesson plans about the effects of social media, and providing additional training to teachers.

“Defendants have successfully exploited the vulnerable brains of youth, hooking tens of millions of students across the country into positive feedback loops of excessive use and abuse of Defendants’ social media platforms,” the complaint said. “Worse, the content Defendants curate and direct to youth is too often harmful and exploitive ....”

While federal law — Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — helps protect online companies from liability arising from what third-party users post on their platforms, the lawsuit argues that provision does not protect the tech giants’ behavior in this case.

“Plaintiff is not alleging Defendants are liable for what third-parties have said on Defendants’ platforms but, rather, for Defendants’ own conduct,” the lawsuit said. “Defendants affirmatively recommend and promote harmful content to youth, such as pro-anorexia and eating disorder content.”

The lawsuit says that from 2009 to 2019, there was on average a 30% increase in the number of Seattle Public Schools students who reported feeling “so sad or hopeless almost every day for two weeks or more in a row” that they stopped doing some typical activities.

The school district is asking the court to order the companies to stop creating the public nuisance, to award damages, and to pay for prevention education and treatment for excessive and problematic use of social media.

While hundreds of families are pursuing lawsuits against the companies over harms they allege their children have suffered from social media, it’s not clear if any other school districts have filed a complaint like Seattle’s.

Internal studies revealed by Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen in 2021 showed that the company knew that Instagram negatively affected teenagers by harming their body image and making eating disorders and thoughts of suicide worse. She alleged that the platform prioritized profits over safety and hid its own research from investors and the public.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

They just want to blame everyone else for their failure to take responsibility of their children.

I'm waiting for the counter-suit on parent's and school's failures to regulate and restrict access to idiocy.

[HONDO74]

They just want to blame everyone else for their failure to take responsibility of their children.

I'm waiting for the counter-suit on parent's and school's failures to regulate and restrict access to idiocy.

It's the school district that is suing..... Are they the failure ?

[ScaleCraft]

More than you know. Horrible.
They had so many students not return after the lockdowns, once parent's saw what was being taught on-line, now there is a big money issue, so what to you do?
SUE!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

They just want to blame everyone else for their failure to take responsibility of their children.

I'm waiting for the counter-suit on parent's and school's failures to regulate and restrict access to idiocy.

It's the school district that is suing..... Are they the failure ?

Today's schools generally are failures - teach kids how to pass a standardized test and not to how to think.