I wish them luck!

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Yes, you know the dozen billionaires that will be in the executive branching in 3 days, or the hundred or so billionaires that completely control the US government?

HEXN3T

Also why are the posts and comments so surreal

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Like the ones in the EU that just don't get enforced?

Btw, banning a platform can and should be a consequence for not adhering to robust privacy laws (for example after too grave and/or repeated offenses).

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Wouldn’t the same TikTok ban law just catch up to this one too?

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Banning apps as a consequence sure, but we know that this has everything to do with the second cold war and nothing to do with actual privacy concerns.

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Yeah and i love laughing at those people cry about it going away like bye

I'll stick to my FLOSS stuff like I've been doing since 2017. Fuck off corpos

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Yeah, I know. But again, Tiktok is not only bad for bad privacy (and inb4 the next strawman: no FFS I'm not saying Meta and Twitter are not doing the same shit or that them doing it is fine).

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Hum... The first one doesn't seem designed for that. It's just an afterthought use China added after it became popular.

And the second one is probably designed for apathy and "productivity enabling". It will certainly get a redesign now.

Meanwhile, some people seem to not want the apathy and "productivity enabling" apps from the US. Too bad there aren't many alternatives.

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That's nice that you enjoy a much less expansive library of entertainment and practically no social interaction. Most people think that's too large of a tradeoff in a world where corpos have all the information about you from birth.

Hope you trust your VPN provider, that's the most common single point of failure given your ISP is collecting and selling all of your data.

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I've been satisfied with IRC, that was social enough for me as an autistic kid yes. I've not had the luxury of developing a high standard of social interaction for my daily life.

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Yes, technically speaking as passed the ban could be enforced against any app controlled by a "Foreign Adversary" as deemed by the gov (so China, Russia etc.) and is determined to be of significant threat to national security.

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I'm in full agreement that it's one of the worst offenders in privacy violations. I'm not going to defend the company. I don't think the app should be banned though, politicians took the easy way out because they don't understand social media enough to regulate it and saw an opportunity to keep playing the geopolitics game. We need to organize and fight for privacy rights.

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I don't think the app should be banned though,

Why not? Again, privacy is not the only issue here.

We need to organize and fight for privacy rights.

One doesn't exclude the other.

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Potentially, but the ban was never about solving a problem it was about being seen doing something. The average old person voter who isn’t serially online has never heard of RedNote and probably won’t for many years, so the skeletons in congress don’t have to address it.

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Possibly, if you're American. The rest of the world will continue to have access.

Buelldozer

Election Interference so blatant that the EU started formal proceedings.

Multiple studies, including a very recent one by Rutgers and NCR, showing it's a pro CCP propaganda vehicle.

It lied about collecting precise user data.

It lied about whether that data was accessible to ByteDance and it lied about not using that data to track people.

The problem with TT isn't it's content, the "food pictures and people being nice to each other." you referenced, its with how TT uses its algorithm to misguide its users and the risk of them misusing the staggering amount of data their app collects.

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"scale up"? lol, it has 300 million MAUs, it's going to be fine...

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MongoDB is webscale. WEBSCALE!!

Chloé 🥕

destabilize western societies

damn it does??? installing rednote immediately

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Twitter ( X run by the twit) and Facebook do the very same but worse . I wonder why they were not banned?