This doesn’t have a damn thing to do with what’s on TikTok.
Yes it does, Mitt Romney even said it explicitly
I don’t know about you, but I couldn’t care less for what social media apps are available in China. Also banning social media is not censorship
It literally, definitionally is.
The premise of this meme is overly simplistic. Effectively equating a social media platform with a website hosting specific beliefs.
Here are, from the top of my head, some ways Big Social is different, regardless of country.
- Hosting a platform with millions or billions of users.
- Exploiting algorithms that mine sensitive data to an invasive degree.
- Control the flow of information, to a very granular degree of precision.
- Experimentally collecting behavioral data in response to said control of information.
- Modeling user’s life expectancy, sexual orientation, political beliefs, consumer patterns, terminal illnesses.
- Selling said data and model outputs to private insurance companies as well as police states.
- Addicting users to withdraw from real life, and get hooked to their screen where they can happily serve the company for data mining.
I hardly think that any of the above should be gauged by the standards of individual rights to free speech. Even corporate entities viewed as individuals with a right to free speech.
This is something else entirely, and whoever owns it, out of whichever country must have their ass regulated off.
Even harder than the EU did.
Operations of this type and size should be eventually dismantled. They are inherently antisocial, corporatist, and totalitarian in their conception and daily function.
Sometime ago I started a discussion about the “Role of Attrition” in the effort to dismantle Big Social enterprises Here it is
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TikTok isn’t “Chinese social media.” It’s American social media that the Chinese control. It’s an engineered product, and the function isn’t showing you videos.
Both sides are correct. Or at least, half correct. They should both be banning both.
No, China does not control TikTok in the US. TikTok transferred control of the US instance to Oracle (and subsequently the US State Department) years ago.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/tiktok-chinese-trojan-horse-run-by-state-department-officials/284353/
The US doesn’t want to ban TikTok. They want to force a sale of TikTok to a US entity, as has been openly stated by the billionaires behind the political push. This is partly to make sure a US oligarch is profiting from the platform’s popularity, and to decrease transparency as US authorities increasingly combat growing leftism and anti-imperialism on the platform among Gen Z.
As soon as the algorithm is deployed, a lot of damage will be done. Doesnt mattwr what the US is controlling there. Brainrot will still happen in those kids, giving them a harder time in School
TikTok is owned by ByteDance, which is a front for the Chinese Communist Party. It’s being used by the CCP to spread agit-prop and self-destructive crap.
Other countries use their “social media platforms” the same way, but that’s no reason to make it easy for other governments to destabilize your society.
Imagine being as dumb as Tom Cotton https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/tom-cotton-backlash-tiktok-ceo-shou-chew-rcna136673
So it’s a social media, made by China, making it Chinese social media. If you want to argue that its not the social media used by the Chinese, that’s different and should be phrased more clearly.
I could say exactly the same thing to you! You clearly understand the distinction I am making. But you have nothing to say about that, you just need to express your OCD. You’re being noise. Do it to someone else.
The function of no social media is to show you content. It once was to generate revenue, but recently x and meta have become the same propaganda machines as tiktok, just owned by different megalomaniac fanatics
This WW2 propaganda all over again
The Red Scare and Cold War never truly ended.
I agree except TikTok is a totally fucked up social media
Ban all social media, return to pigeon mail
Believe it or not, there was Internet communication before social media.
And the yank shit - twitter, meta - are only 98% fucked up! The CHOICE is obvious!
I would argue x is worse.
For propaganda purposes, or brain rot?
Nice Argumentum ad hominem :*
I would argue the same for Twitter and Facebook. Yet the same people said blocking those was authoritarian censorship.
They both suck for sure. That’s why we’re here in the first place.
Good riddance! We are finally going to be free from that chinese spyware used to influence people minds and create an addiction stronger than drugs on people of all ages but especially in minors!
Now we can go back to having only american spyware apps doing that.
