{"id":3225,"date":"2021-10-11T17:39:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T15:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/11\/take-back-control-of-access-to-tiktok-brief-letters\/"},"modified":"2021-10-11T17:39:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-11T15:39:54","slug":"take-back-control-of-access-to-tiktok-brief-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/11\/take-back-control-of-access-to-tiktok-brief-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Take back control  of access to TikTok | Brief letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok | Children\u2019s books | Child refugees | Travelling fairs | Duels<\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t TikTok that\u2019s letting kids see inappropriate posts, it\u2019s their parents (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/oct\/08\/revealed-anti-vaccine-tiktok-videos-viewed-children-as-young-as-nine-covid\">Revealed: anti-vaccine TikTok videos being viewed by children as young as nine, 8 October<\/a>). There are controls that can stop young people signing up; it\u2019s up to their parents and guardians to use them. I suggest a \u201crevert to defaults\u201d on kids\u2019 devices once a day, or as often as necessary. Then get TikTok to deal with the liars. Take back control, people!<br \/><strong>David Reed<\/strong><br \/><em>London<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 I fully agree that \u201cgood children\u2019s books are not a luxury\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2021\/oct\/08\/the-guardian-view-on-childrens-books-take-them-seriously\">Editorial, 8 October<\/a>). In common with many children\u2019s authors, self-publishing had to be my route. Now, five books and 16,500 sales on, I\u00a0regularly delight in such feedback as: \u201cI had to read your book to my child five times last night!\u201d Lacking\u00a0celebrity, and\u00a0doing\u00a0all our own marketing, we self-publishers soldier on.<br \/><strong>Sue Wilkins<\/strong><br \/><em>Matlock, Derbyshire<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/oct\/11\/take-back-control-of-access-to-tiktok\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/dab295b3549d54d3d1fc529ef962d5f9c6f25efa\/0_83_3500_2099\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b78114a0e60f155a70f422689bbc5a28\" title=\"Take back control  of access to TikTok | Brief letters\" \/>TikTok | Children\u2019s books | Child refugees | Travelling fairs | Duels<br \/>\nIt isn\u2019t TikTok that\u2019s letting kids see inappropriate posts, it\u2019s their parents (Revealed: anti-vaccine TikTok videos being viewed by children as young as nine, 8 October). There are controls that can stop young people signing up; it\u2019s up to their parents and guardians to use them. I suggest a \u201crevert to defaults\u201d on kids\u2019 devices once a day, or as often as necessary. Then get TikTok to deal with the liars. Take back control, people!David ReedLondon<br \/>\n\u2022 I fully agree that \u201cgood children\u2019s books are not a luxury\u201d (Editorial, 8 October). In common with many children\u2019s authors, self-publishing had to be my route. Now, five books and 16,500 sales on, I\u00a0regularly delight in such feedback as: \u201cI had to read your book to my child five times last night!\u201d Lacking\u00a0celebrity, and\u00a0doing\u00a0all our own marketing, we self-publishers soldier on.Sue WilkinsMatlock, Derbyshire Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TikTok | Children\u2019s books | Child refugees | Travelling fairs | Duels It isn\u2019t TikTok that\u2019s letting kids see inappropriate posts, it\u2019s their parents (Revealed: anti-vaccine TikTok videos being viewed by children as young as nine, 8 October). There are controls that can stop young people signing up; it\u2019s up to their parents and guardians &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/11\/take-back-control-of-access-to-tiktok-brief-letters\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Take back control  of access to TikTok | Brief letters<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}