Utah has become the latest state to sue TikTok, alleging the social media company is “baiting” children into addictive and unhealthy habits.

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.

  • Karyoplasma
    2·
    9 months ago

    I would watch that TV show. How many seasons are you planning?

    • Death_Equity@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 months ago

      One ok-to-good one, a solid second season, and then like 10 seasons of dragging the premise out long enough that the later seasons are a different genre, there has been 3 musical episodes, and a pretty racist allegorical twist that reveals the real enemy was another religious group that is part of an arc that never has a payoff for the final season.

      The movie will air on Tubi and will be a prequel that is basically unwatchable unless you have seen all 12 seasons and 100%'d the lootbox mobile game that is exclusive to the Sony Xperia Pro II in Guam and West Taiwan.

      There will be an ARG before the pilot airs. Don’t bother trying to play it, you won’t figure it out before the kids whose parents have a multicolored puzzle pieces sticker on their car.