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    Mum believes son 'into every challenge possible' died in online dare gone wrong
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    Mum believes son ‘into every challenge possible’ died in online dare gone wrong

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    1. Decided2change on

      I think this is fine in cases where there is a suspicious element to the death, but also I would like the reverse to happen and have the parents social media disclosed to social services/police

    3. StalactiteSkin on

      Whenever there’s a story about a kid dying due to an ‘challenge’, evidence of said challenge never materialises. There’s never videos found of others doing the alleged challenge, or other incidents of it going wrong.

      I think that, sadly, many parents are unable, or unwilling, to recognise when their child is dealing with mental health issues. Banning social media or smart phones won’t do anything to combat that; parents need to be more attentive to their children.

    4. Inside_Field_8894 on

      Stupid boot didn’t look after her kid so everyone else’s privacy is at risk.

    5. 3106Throwaway181576 on

      ‘Online challenge’ is media code for killed himself on purpose.

      Funny how this article comes out every 6 weeks about a different kid yet I’ve never heard or seen what challenge they’re on about…

      It’s immoral that so many media outlets let parents go down the rabbit hole like this with their denial and copium

    7. remedy4cure on

      This is what happens when you let your kid get raised by an iPad whilst you and a bottle of white wine get better acquainted with netflix.

      I don’t remember the teletubbies or freakin pingu telling me to drink tide pods.

    8. Lorry_Al on

      >Ellen’s petition demands that parents have the right to access their children’s social media “both when the child is alive and if they are deceased”.

      Eff off.

    9. Tuckernozz on

      Social interactions should be in person until 16-18. Social media causes far too much harm then good. If kids want phones it’s fine, but bullying could be bad in school before social media. Let them watch shit videos without social constraints

    10. csgymgirl on

      Blaming a kid’s suicide on a tiktok challenge feels like it’s become the new “death by misadventure”, where they weren’t *”really trying to kill themselves, they were just experimenting””* excuse that we used to see.

      I don’t think the parent saying “they weren’t trying to kill themselves, there were no signs they were depressed” is ever a good insight as half the time there is a suicide people respond with the phrase “it was the last person you’d expect”.

      I don’t think social media at the moment is good for the younger generation, but I think stories like these are just scapegoating it.

    11. weirdhoney216 on

      Read the article and there’s no proof at all these kids died from “online challenges”, it’s just what the parents “think” might have happened

    12. Scarletowder on

      Unfortunately, it seems from the impartial evidence that poor child committed suicide. There was quite a lot of scandal around his mother’s past and present attention seeking.