Neurologist warns that while China protects its children from TikTok, Western children are being destroyed with developed addictions and functional impairments

Published January 30, 2023 | By NewsJive.com

Although the very popular Chinese social media platform among children all over the world, TikTok, has its pluses for kids as the new “toy” in the 2020s, it is said to even have its disadvantages, due to the fact that more and more children are spending to much time online on TikTok and other social media platforms.

While China has by new legislations restricted all social media use time to 40 minutes per day for Chinese children as a limitation, children in the Western world have basically no limitations at all and are unprotected.

According to a French neurologist, Michel Desmurget, this addiction that Western children have developed by using social media on unlimited basis, has already had an negative impact in comparison to Chinese children, in regards to reduced cognitive functionality, falling test scores on academic results, reduced language skills, concentration problems and intellectual impairment among many other things, the Remix reports.

“You can already see a significant difference between OECD countries and Asian countries. When China joined the Pisa program in 2009, which tests children’s abilities, it was a real electric shock for the West”, Desmurget told the German newspaper, Die Welt, and went on with similar comparisons:

“Even Barack Obama spoke of a Sputnik effect, referring to the trauma Americans experienced when the Russians sent the first satellite into space before they did. That’s exactly what then drove the United States to create NASA and launch massive space programs.”

Desmurget says that while China is protecting their children from using social media like TikTok, in comparions with the Western countries, that this will have an enormous implication on the future, including geopolitical consequences due to a weakening of the West’s economic and intellectual capacity.

“Social media is largely responsible for this (disparity in Pisa test results), at a time when China is rigorously controlling their use. The Chinese government limits the use of TikTok, which operates under the name Douyin there, to 40 minutes per day, and the time for video games for teenagers has also been drastically reduced.”

“Our European children, on the other hand, sit in front of screens for seven to eight hours a day.
The TikTok version that we know here in the West has no restrictions whatsoever, either in terms of content or time of use.”

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