POV: It's January 19th

bcovertigo

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...

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The user you are answering to isn't making "the other party" any kind of moral hero, it's literally just criticizing TikTok.

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It sold for $44 billion dollars, so it was definitely worth that to the people who cashed the check. It doesn't matter what we think it was worth, that's how enormous their payday was. Motherfuck, I should have coded that shit back in the day!

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Yeah. American apps are trash like that

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Imagine trusting an app owned by billionaires that just paid off the government to remove their competition.

You're an idiot if you trust any social media platform at this point.

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A dollar is only a good price for an elephant if you need an elephant and have a dollar.

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Can someone explain to me how it's worse for a foreign government to have your information than your own government having that same information? Your own government is far more likely to actually be able to do something about you.

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Not a foreign gov. China.

This is analogous to the diff between Ireland having nukes and Russia having nukes.

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That's too bad, I was hoping regulatory capture would help youtube get back on its feet now that it's a failed platform.