POV: It's January 19th

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Polly wants a cracker

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This is a pretty sane explanation.

I'm also at least partially convinced that it's motivated by our social media giants' interest to "think of the children" their competition away.

Seeing as the order was basically "Get bought by an American corpo or get banned." They either plunder the competitor's insane data collection, userbase, and profits, or kick them off their corner.

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Now do one with Xinnie the Pooh

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I feel seen. LOL

I feel like with all the posts I ramble on (and TRY to pare down) in Lemmy, I could just have easily had a somewhat healthy blog going by now...that nobody would read because it wasn't on Medium or some other monolith. XD

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Neither he nor his country seem to be on their way out currently. Same old authoritarianism as usual.

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Hamas is being used as a pawn. Should read some Sun Tzu

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The interest your domestic and foreign corporate social media platforms have in you are VASTLY different. It's naive to equivocate them. Yes, TikTok should get "banned", which will just be pulling the app from the app store and likely still available as a web app maybe through a VPN. They're just going to create more friction in getting access.

Instead of advocating for spyware, perhaps we should be highlighting open alternatives?

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I've read Art of War. Do you have an actual point?

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The research lead me to an opposing conclusion unfortunately. tiktok+viral+heating in your search engine of choice shows results like these.

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Well yeah, but it's the US government which hasn't ever done anything problematic before. I'm sure it's for everyone's best interest. /S

Which if that were true, still wouldn't matter.

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I have news for everyone ITT: TikTok is not leaving the US. A friend works in their North America business division, and they are fully planning to split off a satellite company that is (at least nominally) US-based and compliant with local law. They have been working on the transition for many months.

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Imagine ~~using~~ ~~being unfathomably addicted to~~ trusting an app parented and developed in a country where you can't criticize your leaders.

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Well, yeah. That's why we know it should be banned.

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Twitter isn't and wasn't worth $44 billion.

Controlling the narrative is, though.

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Theys Americans is so dumb.

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This is my problem with it.

Social media, the big ones that everyone uses, are a blight on society. They are worse than cancer and they need regulation and control.

Really, the bigger problem is the monetization of data, and the ever-deeper orificices that they try to dig into for said data.

But I digress.

At the same time, they are private industries running a public (ish) forum.

Historically, we'd expect the forum owners to be responsible about the content they are presenting, and ensure that it doesn't reflect poorly on them or their community.

In other words...you wouldn't see the grocer keeping hate speech up on his community board...but if you did, I'm sure a lot of people would choose a different grocer.

The social media giants are taking a page right out of the book of Mormon, and gotten itself so engrained into modern society that trying to separate yourself from it will, at some level, result in social exile. That's bad.

Now theres a company backed by an increasingly adversarial nation-state that is in charge of a shit ton of that data. That's bad.

There's a lot of bad. Ultimately, it's a highly nuanced issue.

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You can also see it as retribution.

"Get bought by a Chinese entity or get banned" is the default posture of the Chinese government. BMW China is Chinese. Samsung China is Chinese. Panasonic China is Chinese. GM China is Chinese. If TikTok US is forced to be American, it wouldn't be the most unfair thing this week.

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While this may be true, this comment has strong "I have a girlfriend in a another school" vibes.

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Well, that's the law. If it helps you, I think China should ban Facebook... Oh, wait.

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You already are on lemmy...