POV: It's January 19th
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[email protected]replied to [email protected] last edited by
Those are valid criticisms, but can equally be applied to all of the rest of our main social media platforms.
I’m not seeing a big difference here between TikTok and YouTube except that one is not able to be influenced or backdoored by the US government and the other is.
In essence the optics here look an awful lot like the US simply doesn’t like other nations mining their citizens data that they want for themselves, and having foreign control of the type of news being fed by their algorithm.
Just remember that before Snowden dropped a dime on the NSA, similar suspicions sounded pretty wacky too
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[email protected]replied to [email protected] last edited by
Good luck criticize a user’s choice of platform hoping to get them to leave.
“You really shouldn’t jump rope on the train tracks. It’s not safe.”
“What’s not safe about jumping rope? Everybody jump’s rope.”
“It’s not jumping rope that’s the problem, it’s the train tracks.”
“I think I’m smart enough to know if a train is coming. It’s not like the train is coming for me specifically. It’s not like I’m important. I don’t have anything important that the train could take from me anyw-“ splat
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That last part is becoming less and less relevant .... someone is spying but it isn't for the benefit or under the control of a country. More and more, the spying is meant more for the purposes of commerce and finance, for money and control. For business interests which is what major governments mainly represent.
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Chemical Wonkareplied to [email protected] last edited by
All American social networks are also spyware
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TikTok have complied with every single inquiry and request of the government, like the censorship of covid deniers, info about neo nazis including their private messages…! The inquiry of the congress pretty much started with this
Its probably facebook that bribe… I mean donated to both parties to make this happen
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Chemical Wonkareplied to [email protected] last edited by
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[email protected]replied to [email protected] last edited by
But… US companies are allowed to sell the data of citizens to other countries? Do they want some taxes before they give arbitrary your info that is literally unusable for anything aside from customizing ads
This argument bleeds from so many wounds! With how much could have Cuckerberg bribe both parties?
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And as soon as the government wants it, most companies hand it right over.
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[email protected]replied to [email protected] last edited by
Right? Now do Facebook.
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Americans complaining about other countries meddling in their affairs is such a hilarious hypocrisy. You guys have been the worst for ruining other countries around the world.
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[email protected]replied to [email protected] last edited by
I found it interesting that this tiktok regulations hit peak fervor around the time that youths were using tiktok to full grasp the severity of the israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
We need broad regulation for social media in the US, not cherry picked fervor for political reasons.
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And it doesn't matter who or why, either - as soon as someone hoards other people's data, someone else will try to steal it.
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[email protected]replied to [email protected] last edited by
This article from 2024 gives a pretty good rundown as to why using this reasoning to ban Tiktok will set a very bad precedent:
Legal experts say a TikTok ban without specific evidence violates the First Amendment
The Justice Department is expected to argue that its clamp down on TikTok is about national security, but Constitutional lawyers say there is no way around grappling with the free speech implications.
NPR (www.npr.org)
If the govt cared about your data privacy, they would create data collection regulations that they could then use to ban tiktok if/when they violate them.
Disclaimer: I am not saying Tiktok is a great app with zero issues. This is a concern about causing long term problems by using a short term easy solution.
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Well, at this point, the line between business and government in the US is almost non-existent.
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[email protected]replied to [email protected] last edited by
"It's okay that the CCP pushes propaganda because billionaires do it too" - Tiktok defenders
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[email protected]replied to [email protected] last edited by
That was the catalyst that made them realize they didn't have the sway to control the narrative on tik Tok and that they had to destroy it.
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Problem is that insta also had the same content and plenty of folks saw it there too.
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[email protected]replied to Chemical Wonka last edited by
Jokes on you, I use lemmy
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[email protected]replied to [email protected] last edited by
It'd be much more surprising to see the Awmerican government manipulating the algorithms etc to push propoganda narratives whereas it's a pretty safe assumption that's the case on tiktok.
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