Within just a few weeks ago, users of TikTok, under the age of 18 will no longer be able to use the tool in order to increase artificially the eyes, in order to increase the volume of the lips, or to change the color of the skin. However, these filters, which are intended to establish the effect of the comics, as well as those that add to wish lepurushi, or the nose, the dog will not be affected. The platform, which has a billion users, announced the change during a forum on security at the headquarters of its european in Dublin, as reported by the Guardian.
There have been concerns about the firm than the filters of a beauty – some of the offerings from TikTok, the other created by the user – are the exercise the pressure on the teens, particularly the girls. By failing to achieve the ideal of beauty is to enable the filters, a lot of girls would have suffered the negative consequences of emotional. In a social network as well as TikTok, which represents almost all of the context of the social, of some of the young people, a feeling that these will in turn lead to the results in a very unfortunate the depression and the problems with mental health.
TikTok announced a the strengthening of the system block a user under 13 years of age, that you try to bypass the limitations of the age. These moves come ahead of the rules, the more intense use of social media by a minor in the United kingdomthat's expected at the beginning of the next year, as well as The Online Safety Act and the need to comply with the provisions of the final of the European Union the safety and dezinformimin on the platforms of the social. At present, the platform lifts approximately 20 million accounts have to be set up from the minors, and every community around the world and we back out of the Creature.
The ability of juveniles to waive the restrictions in the use of important and potentially the most dangerous of the TikTok is a major concern for institutions. Equipments Setter, manager of public policy for the safety of the children at TikTok, said: “It is hoped that this will provide us with the ability to detect and remove the account soon.” At the same time, and the users blocked by mistake will be able to appeal, as the procedures are automatizuara, and is based on the algorithms of machine learningand , as a consequence, the subject of “false positives”.
“The obstacles” and the new filters, the beauty, and the verification of the age, part of a round of rules concerning the way to safety on the internet made by them in the social, before the regulations are less strict. Last week Robloxplatform of the popular video games, with 90 million users to date, announced that it would limit the access of users to the new content, violent, vulgar, or scary, in response to concerns about the care, use, and sharing of images to be inadequate. Instagramhowever , the recently introduced “the accounts of both” to give parents greater control over the activities of their children, as it has the ability to block the use of the app during the night.
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