POV: It's January 19th

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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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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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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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"It's okay that the CCP pushes propaganda because billionaires do it too" - Tiktok defenders

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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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Jokes on you, I use lemmy

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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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FreeDumb️

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The last panel also hurts us - fellow non-americans

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What kind of propaganda is the CGP pushing, exactly? Is it with us in the room, right now?

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Lemmy begs to differ

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This is not news,

This has been known for years.

I promise, the CCP does not need you to play devil's advocate; they advocate plenty well for themselves.

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The researchers found that while TikTok might not deliver more pro-CCP content, it did deliver less anti-CCP content than the rival platforms.

Umm, that's not really propaganda, homie. That's simple censorship. There's a difference.

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The very next thing said in the article:

The team next looked at engagement to see if this explained why anti-CCP content was performing less well. But it found that TikTok users “liked or commented on anti-CCP content nearly four times as much as they liked or commented on pro-CCP content, yet the search algorithm produced nearly three times as much pro-CCP content”. This didn’t happen on Instagram or YouTube.

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Yes. I already said it was censorship. Again: how is this pro-CCP propaganda? Do you understand the difference between censorship and propaganda?

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Yes. I already said it was censorship. Again: how is this pro-CCP propaganda? Do you understand the difference between censorship and propaganda?

If you don't think that suppressing content that goes against a point of view whilst simultaneously boosting content that agrees with a point of view is propaganda, I suppose you must think Twitter's recent developments over the past two years (or so? Time is getting fuzzy) are not a propaganda effort either.

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There are multiple instances pushing propaganda and most data can just be scraped by bots. It may be harder, but capitalism finds a way.