It’s no longer a secret that TikTok is the favorite social network of young people. As the Utah Department of Commerce Consumer Protection Division puts it, the mobile app has become synonymous with “youth culture.” In this deeply conservative state in the American Midwest, as everywhere else in the world, young people are spending money. Watching the platform’s videos for hours.
The problem, according to judicial officials, is that “these kids (and their parents) don’t know that. TikTok lies about the security of its app and forcibly manipulates them into accessing and viewing the app, without regard for the dire impact on their mental health, physical development, and family and social life.”
This American state wants to stop TikTok’s actions on its territory
TikTok has more than 1.6 billion active users worldwide, including 150 million in the United States. While there will be $10 billion in advertising profits in this country alone in 2022, TikTok ‘incredibly lucrative’. According to the Salt Lake City court, the methods used to accumulate this nest egg are fraudulent and harmful to young people. For Governor of Utah“By collecting users’ data and monopolizing their time, TikTok extracts value from its users and turns it into advertising dollars.” Company lies about the security of the app He would knowingly make children and adolescents “addicted”.
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Additionally, Utah officials consider: TikTok is too close to the Chinese government. No one yet knows whether this complaint against TikTok will actually come to court and what the consequences will be for the company if the justice system decides in favor of the plaintiffs, but it is clear that the bad influence and the methods used are obvious. platform Attracted attention all over the world.
