TikTok Should Be Banned

‘I feel like someone encouraged her’: Girl, 12, found dead at her Argentina home after practicing viral TikTok 'blackout challenge' – aunt says she was found hanging by a rope and friends watched her kill herself on livestream

Milagros Soto died at her home in Santa Fe, Argentina, on Friday after doing the viral TikTok 'blackout challenge'
The 12-year-old girl is said to have received a link from a classmate before participating in the dare
Soto placed a rope around her neck while she held her breath and twice tried to remove it and failed
She tried a third time and was unable to get the rope off before she died
The child's death was caused by 'mechanical asphyxia by hanging' and 'there are no signs of abuse or third party intervention'

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Budwick · 70-79, M

@Darksideinthenight2 [quote]U cant ban tiktok when they not legally responsible.[/quote]

Yes, I can. I already did.
Any site promoting dangerous behavior on the part of our kids should be banned.

Yvonne · 22-25, F

@Darksideinthenight2 The site should be responsable to delete any content produced by kids and especially content that encourages (self) harm.

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Budwick · 70-79, M

@Darksideinthenight2 I'm OK with that.

Budwick · 70-79, M

@Darksideinthenight2 [quote] Sw doesn't delete that shit.[/quote]

I've never seen one here.

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Yvonne · 22-25, F

@Darksideinthenight2 These dangerous challenges are nearly exclusive to TikTok.

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Budwick · 70-79, M

@Darksideinthenight2 DARK - Are you unusually slow or something? I JUST said - I've never seen a dangerous challenge here.

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Budwick · 70-79, M

@Darksideinthenight2 [quote]They encourage all kind of stupid shit that could result in death[/quote]

Do you think that behavior should be banned?

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Budwick · 70-79, M

@Darksideinthenight2 So you think that behavior should be banned?

OogieBoogie · F

@Budwick You do remember why EP shut down right?

Was EP responsible for what happened?
No...it was crazies who used the site that fucked it up.

I agree tiktok has bad shit on it, but it also has educational, funny, artisric and clever stuff on it too.

You are doinf what generations ago said about popular 50's and 60's music, "its destroying our kids, leading them into irresponsible behaviour"....yet i bet you rocked out to it anyway.

Tik tok is just a modern version of what EVERY generation faces - peer pressure.

Yes , those stupid posts should be taken down, and repeat offenders even banned.
But you dont throw the baby out with the bath water.

Part of growing up is learning about logic, self, calculating risk, independence, forethought and such .

The saddest part of all this is - why did she lack in self confidence or critical thinking so MUCH ....that she never once considered this a stupid idea and ignored it ?

My daughter uses tiktok all the time, (and has done for YEAR), but for art, jokes, life hacks, music, memes and lgbqt+ awareness, fashion ideas, animé and cosplay.

Anything can be bad if you illuse it.