Utah became the latest state Tuesday to file a lawsuit against TikTok, alleging the company is “baiting” children into addictive and unhealthy social media habits.
TikTok lures children into hours of social media use, misrepresents the app’s safety and deceptively portrays itself as independent of its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, Utah claims in the lawsuit.
“We will not stand by while these companies fail to take adequate, meaningful action to protect our children. We will prevail in holding social media companies accountable by any means necessary,” Republican Gov. Spencer Cox said at a news conference announcing the lawsuit, which was filed in state court in Salt Lake City.
I hope they win. I mean TikTok is not the only one. Not even close. But I hate platforms like these and would like to see some backlash.
So we should have the government shut down things we don’t like? Can no one see how this is a bit of a slippery slope, establishing this pattern. What if they decide lemmy needs to go and use the same reasoning.
Nothing will happen, a notice will be issued and TikTok won’t give a fuck. Don’t forget it is literally owned by CCP. Why would it fear some US state.
The same reason NY and California can make a law and the entire industry shifts to comply? If you get banned in Utah it won’t be long before the rest of the US.