If you are under 13 years old, you cannot participate in TikTok. This preventive measure comes shortly after the YouTube scandal harboring comments from pedophile groups.
A few weeks ago the social network TikTok began to prohibit users who have not reached the age of 13 from creating a profile or generating content. It is a very strong blow for this platform that has been very successful among young people in recent months. By focusing on a young audience it was inevitable that even children would be interested and thus exposed to certain dangers.
For your safety, nothing under 13 years old on TikTok, the video network of the moment
Although this change in their policy is not an action they have taken freely. This is a response to a ruling from the Federal Trade Commission a few weeks ago on children's privacy laws. The measure is retroactive and many young people have seen their accounts and videos deleted.
From now on TikTok asks users to enter their date of birth. This is how the application knows if a user meets the minimum age. Although deep down it is easy to enter a date that says you are over 18 years old despite not being true.
TikTok has also had to pay $ 5,7 million and implement the changes mentioned as a fine for violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. Although they will allow those under 13 to view some videos that have been previously selected if they see that they are suitable for them. All this comes a few days after the recent Yotube crisis when seeing that many pedophiles take advantage of the algorithm to search for videos of minors and comment on children in compromised positions. YouTube has already taken care of removing comments and monetization on those videos among other measures, and we can hope that apart from TikTok, more social networks will introduce changes to protect minors.
Source. The Verge
