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‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Your TikTok addiction may have turned you into a psychopath. "Kids die all the time, what's the big deal?"

The gun rights crowd has better arguments about why their hobby is more important than kids dying.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

? I've never used TikTok...

But yes, kids die all the time for various reasons. When talking about individual causes, it's important to look at the impact on trends. Are more kids dying due to TikTok, or is TikTok merely replacing another cause?

Obviously no death is acceptable, but death will happen. The role of public policy isn't to prevent all death, but to address the bulk of it with the least invasive policy possible.