Tik Toc police

Post by **Niner** » Sat Jan 17, 2026 2:59 pm

There is a story today about what Tic Toc in Europe is starting as a new policy of speech control for children and teens. It's only a matter of time before it happens in the US as well. A lot of people in public office in the US, both left and right wing, want to control thought online. When it comes to children or teens all of these high minded people are united in support of proper supervision. However, now that we are in the age of people needing to be protected from thinking about what is designated as wrong information, the next step to be accepted by the public, for their own good, is restricting free speech for adults too. I wonder how that is going to work out. Here is a bit of the new super control of children and teens on Tic Toc in the news:

TikTok emphasized its commitment to ensuring an "age-appropriate experience" for all teens, even after they've passed age checks, using automatically-applied settings to protect them from inappropriate content and contact.

Content flagged up as unsuitable for teens was "filtered from their experience," said TikTok, noting that teen accounts automatically had more than 50 preset safety, privacy, and security features and settings

For older children, TikTok said it blocked under-16s from direct messaging.

A 60-minute screen-time limit is enforced for under-18s who are also unable to receive notifications "after bed time."

"To help ensure that teens are in the right experience for their age, we also use technologies that help predict whether a person falls within a certain age range (e.g., 13-15). If the estimate doesn't match the date of birth provided at sign-up, a moderator can review the account and place it into the correct age experience," the firm added.

Now what happens for adults that a lot of our political hacks see no wrong in and want to see coming next? Block messaging if it contains anti whatever is considered heresy? Fifty preset safety and privacy and security restrictions to keep people from having views considered wrong or prejudicial to sacred in groups? Biden tried it with facebook and after a bit of push back backed up a step or two and Trump is good with it now too....now that he is elected and as long as it isn't about him or someone says negative things about his Zionist friends and how they are treating the Gaza civilians.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News ... 768568699/