TikTok Admits It's as Clueless on Teens as the Rest of Us

TikTok has announced that in the coming weeks, underage users' accounts will automatically opt into their new 60-minute screen time limit of the app and will be served a prompt to stop using the app at the one-hour mark - but they can re-enter their password to continue to use the app as the changes highlight a trend that a major tech company is self-regulating and implies that unlimited screen time is bad for kids, and the article argues the best solution for personal regulation of tech use is personal, familial or voluntary communal instead of regulatory ideas which would do too much or be completely useless.