TikTok Sued By The State Of Indiana Over Child Safety Violations

The state of Indiana is suing popular social media app TikTok for endangering children. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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The state of Indiana is suing popular social media app TikTok for endangering children. Wow. There's something to this story.

Yep.

Okay. As you know, I handle, I handle sex trafficking all over the country. Matter of fact, I just gave a speech in London about it two weeks ago because it's become such a problem in London. So, as I look at this story, if we're sitting here believing that what China is doing with, with TikTok is benevolent. That hey, we're just looking at the business aspect of it. There is some really good information that tells us they know exactly what's going on with human trafficking and sex trafficking.

Yeah. A hundred percent. And, and this lawsuit specifically, it, it doesn't get into those issues. I, I think as it progresses, they're finally gonna.

Oh, that's, that's where it's going now.

But, but they kind of did a little superficial, like, hey, you're, you're exposing them to mature content and, uh, you're stealing their data.

Mm-hmm.

Which is a huge problem in and of itself. But you're right, the bigger issues are the ones that are gonna come out and hopefully, I, I think maybe this lawsuit was filed the way it was to get to the discovery point.

It is.

To be able to get their hands on that.

This is that first step.

Yeah.

I can tell you this is, it's, it's, you're gonna see states do this. The DOJ is, does what the DOJ does, just like the opioid crisis. They have to be pushed and cajoled and beat over the head and say, and shamed to do anything. Back, back to the tobacco case that we've started, the opioid case that we started, 87 pharmaceutical cases that we have started in this law firm, every time we go to the DOJ and say, look, here it is. PFAS, here, here it is, it's all here for you. Go prosecute somebody. They don't have the guts to do it. The, I don't know whether it's a lack of talent. What I'm reading right now is it potentially is a lack of talent. But the states can be more effective on this. There's already three states that are already going after TikTok, and you've got the government at least saying you can't use this pro, you can't use TikTok on our government sites. Right?

Yeah. Alabama just a couple days ago, became the most recent state to, to join in on that. And we're already, you know, it's great that Indiana's filed this lawsuit, but we're already so behind Europe.

Oh, completely. Explain. Explain that. People don't understand what you just said, but that's very true.

You have countries all across Europe, the, you know, the United Kingdom kind of leading the way. They've been sounding the alarm about TikTok.

Yeah.

They have been doing these investigations. They're already in the process of preparing, I think the $29 million fine.

Mm-hmm.

On these companies for what they're doing to children and what they're exposing them to. And we are just at the point where we're saying, okay, well, we're gonna now launch investigations. They're concluding theirs and we're just launching ours.

Farron, here's what they're concluding that scares us, scares the hell outta me. They're concluding that they're using the child's contact with TikTok to get into the parent's systems. They even have it, come on parent, sign up with your child so you know what you're doing.

Yeah.

What that leads to is they're getting into the entire household. All of the information in the entire household now becomes at the, at the fingertips of China. Not only that, but there's, there's, there's so much material showing that what they're showing in America, they're not allowed to show in China where it comes to children. You can't show the caliber of things you're showing in, in the US or Canada or South America. You can't show that in China because they know it has some really destructive and very dangerous possibilities. Right?

Yeah, absolutely. And again, Europe leading the way on this.