Depends on age. Either way it's the parents job to keep their kids safe until they're $legal_age. Sometimes this might mean teaching common sense, sometimes it might mean not exposing your kids to TikTok.
It feels like common sense is a dying thing, could it be because we specialize further and further? I "can't cook" for example.
> Either way it's the parents job to keep their kids safe until they're $legal_age.
If someone sells alcohol to a minor they can be sued and will likely be in trouble if the child is harmed. It is the seller's responsibility to make sure they don't and it wouldn't enough to have a sign saying "please don't buy if you are a minor". They must actively check. Same thing with firearms. Even the (adult) entertainment industry works like that.
Here too tiktok "sold" a product to some kids, and these kids were harmed. Consequently they have some responsibility over that. Why should the IT industry get away with practice that would not be accepted in any other industry?
The role of parents is not to keep their kids safe at all costs. If it were then just keeping children locked up until their majority would be optimal parenting. Instead we as a society should thrive to make the world safe for those kids rather than just pretend it's the exclusive responsibility of their parents.
how can they do? everyone give their kid cellphone or iPad now, even they try to control this in early stages, if kids are different to other kids in school, they will bad and try to change themselves. finally, if someone upload videos that design to murder kids, it just will happen.
Parents are not the ones exposing their children to Tiktok. Most kids go to public school. Hopefully further elaboration is not needed for HackerNews readership.
"Teaching common sense" sounds very effective for young children with developing minds notorious for making terrible decisions. If only those parents had thought of it sooner.
I don't see any argument here, kids go to public Schools and get shown TikTok. But it's not like TikTok hasn't made headlines for some time now. An engaged parent might talk to their kids about not doing the stupid things they find on TikTok.
I'm not saying TikTok is right in promoting harmful things, it's like the town square lunatic on steroids, but at the end of the day kids are going to be exposed to stupid shit through all their life (as you say) so if it's not TikTok it's something else, teach your kids not to choke themselves to death intentionally.
Calling TikTok the town square lunatic is not an apt analogy. The town square lunatic is isolated, can’t reach a lot of people and doesn’t have peoples attention for very long. There are legions of crazies online that have banded together to really push terrible propaganda that very few adults, let alone kids would be able to resist.
This is school age. You have to assume that at that point someone they talk to will have access to anything on the internet or will pass any information they want. All the common sense and supervision will not save you from kids interacting, unless you plan to never let them out of the house.
It feels like common sense is a dying thing, could it be because we specialize further and further? I "can't cook" for example.