i m just laughing because i know it doesn t work. not many. laura . it s like when apple put on the screen timer, you can easily, easily navigate around it. and i think that while any change to help protect children is necessary, and welcomed, it s like putting a bandaid over a much larger issue. here we are facing an issue where online spaces are not safe for young people to inhabit. therefore, we need to take regulatory action to make those spaces safer because these companies cannot self lead. as we ve seen. emma, how addicting. tiktok. i mean, you re of the generation that i just seen kids scrolling at the coffee shop. they scroll, scroll, scroll made. it seems like four hours. you know, laura , i can only speak to my personal experience and what i see around me. but what i can say is that it is by far one of the most addicting and scrolled algorithms that i ve seen in my friend group.
held responsible for the death of a 10 year old girl who participated in a blackout challenge. also known as the choking challenge. tiktok actively pushes on her feet. section 230 was never intended to shield companies like yours from amplifying dangerous and life-threatening content to children. do you consider this to be a good faith? moderation section 2:30 is a very complex, you know, yes or no. we are very focused on safety. joining me now, emma lemcke, founder of a log off movement. last month, she testified in front of the senate judiciary committee about the harms of social media and thanks for being with us tonight. do you believe the ceo when he says that tiktok is very focused and takes very seriously safety? you know, allure first, thank you for having me. i think that tiktok begins to take it seriously when
they begin to fall into the national landscape. of discourse. i think that a lot of these harms have been experienced for years across the platform. they can be seen in the case of the ten year old girl who sadly passed away from these deadly tiktok challenges. so i think that a lot of these actions are too little, too late. well, tiktok ceo emma also touted some of the apps protective measures that they claim we re going to keep teens out of trouble. watch this. we spent a lot of time adopting measures to protect teenagers. many of those measures are firsts for the social media industry. we we forbid direct messaging for people under 16 and we have a 60 minute wash time by default for those under 18 , we have a suite of family planning tools so that parents can participate in their teens experience and make the choices they are right for their family . emma, 60 minute role. how many how many kids are abiding by the 60 minute rule? it s a does that work?
that s the truth. is that the ccp has access right now to any data they want that belongs to us. and that s why i say, again, this is a backdoor for the beijing government into our private lives. into our personal security, into the heads of our children. and we ve got to close that door. the only thing to do, laura , is to ban it. you mentioned the biden administration. tiktok. it s not stupid. they went out and hired a pr firm that was founded by biden administration people. they are trying to purchase the democrat party right now. why are all of these corporate media outlets now rehearsing tiktok the lines for them? it s because tiktok is out there pushing this. they re out there buying influence of the democrat party. let s put it to vote. let s just see what the tally is . let s see who s willing to ban this thing. senator , thank you so much. now, separate from the national security and data collection concerns is what tiktok is doing to our kids. last year, federal judge in
and getting hammered by both parties, the london and harvard educated mr. chu kind of kept his cool. it was almost like he knew that in the end, biden would never sign a bill banning tiktok in the law. it was just a few weeks ago that the white house had come up with a middle ground suggesting that biden s sell tiktok. then that would mollify concerns of both parties and americans across the country. well, so much for compromising with the chinese today. just hours before that hill hearing, china gave the symbolic middle finger to biden, announcing that it was rejecting the idea of selling. tiktok. i wonder why now will the establishment ever learn that you cannot meet china halfway on any issue like this? their aim is simple. it s to conquer the united states in any way they ultimately can through influence, presence, what have you. and this would mean it would