““To us it means that the manufacturer recognizes that this toy can cause chaos or injury or death,” said Plakas.”
AKRON, Ohio — The family of Ethan Liming is considering a lawsuit against social media platform TikTok.
Detectives said that led to a fight and Ethan was repeatedly punched and kicked. He died at the scene. “His loss will forever leave a hole in the Liming family but it is the Liming family’s prayer that Ethan would not have died in vain,” he said. “They hope that the circumstances of his death will alert our community, our society, to the clear and present danger that result when social media platforms target the youth of our communities and encourage them to engage in very reckless and dangerous actives that result, and will result, in more tragic death.
But he and his associate, Elisabeth Jackson, said firing it at unsuspecting bystanders is a trend that TikTok made popular, it’s called the ‘Splatter Ball Challenge.” “The more reckless, the more dangerous the presentation is on the internet, the more people watch it and that drives the profit for social media platforms,” he said. “All they care about is profit and they sacrifice children in our communities.”It is a toy-gun that is advertised for 14 years and older. The box the toy gun comes in has a warning label that reads: Do not brandish or display this air gun in public- it may confuse people and may be a crime.
He said that suing a social media platform can be tricky because the problem that some plaintiffs’ lawyers run intoe is a federal law called Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
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