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Discussion on: Tiktok is getting banned in the US. Will this affect US jobs?

 
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yellow1912

You are right regarding kids. But doesn't that mean banning tiktok make lots of sense now? In the end its target audience are of very young age.

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Sean Antony Brunton

I think it's a great app, and it gives me lekker giggles and brightens up my day, really. Although I wont post anything myself on the platform, maybe a comment. However people seem to get upset at different opinions (it's natural). That is what causes the discord, its already there without having politics in the picture, now you throw the volatility of geo-politics on a platform like that? Just looking for trouble, it won't go away though. Maybe politics should have something like DEV lol.. keep the two separate. I love social media for the lekker giggles, but then it is destroyed by a marketing of politics. Only reason why I won't use social media, the good of it is quickly destroyed by the marketing of politics. I think all the yankee government must do is put a high age restriction. Make "channels" for social media, make different platforms for kids, like how I use to watch cartoons every afternoon or on a Saturday. When the channel said "this is PG16". My mom (RIP) and my dad use to chase us out of room. Like Tik Tok -PG16, and the kids parents have to pay for it for a special subscription. The parents can monitor what kids are watching. All children who get cellphones ought to have their own RICA system, and a child must present identification (this should be so essential). Once your kids are 21, well then it the child's decision to use a more unregulated internet. I'm all for the autonomy of people on the net, just not for kids. It's your elections now yeah? I would ban it to, can't have crazy civil unrest during elections. The world cannot afford America to plunge into another civil war. I apologize if I sound like a chop, but it is something which deeply concerns me.