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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • Broadcasting, publishing with instant and far reach, etc. with the power of the algorithms to amplify. Whatever you want to label it. I only used “broadcasting” for the 1 to many communication. Many being more than a handful of friends. Even a website posted in the 90s was likely to only get to a few friends. Discoverability would have been a huge issue for any one kids geocities site.

    It is different from word of mouth. It is another party amplifying the behavior you are saying already existed.

    That’s my point. And you just stated it. The difference is they can show the world and perpetuate the “challenge” by modeling it for thousands of others instead of just their local friends/kid in the neighborhood.

    you are discounting the power of the platform algorithms to connect these kids and to amplify the appearance of this behavior as normal.

    Even if we agree the volume of exposure to this specific “challenge” didn’t change, a company shouldn’t be profiting off it. They shouldn’t be participating. They shouldn’t be applying their technology to optimize and enhance the delivery of the challenge to all corners of the world.

    Now if you wanna discuss if this is undue burden on TikTok to monitor for these issues, that’s different.

    I just strongly disagree that “whatever, this isn’t new, this has been happening since kids were invented” is a valid argument about if a platform should be policing the content. And where does it stop? Can adults challenge children? Is that fine too, because that’s surely happened before the internet too?

    The following is maybe an extreme comparison to make, but kids have been showing each other themselves naked since the dawn of time, that does not mean TikTok shouldn’t monitor and address instances of kids posting themselves naked when it happens on their broadcasting/publishing/(whatever word you prefer) platform.