TikTok is taking the US government to court.

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    6 months ago

    Lmao. They’re trying to sell a product. They admit on their blog that the reason their score is so high is the trackers. Which are all from other social media companies and an advertiser. Oh and they counted Google Crashlytics.

    TIL I learned good app maintenance is considered a red flag.

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          6 months ago

          Ah my apologies I thought you meant TikTok when you said “They’re trying to sell a product.” It’s a pretty common defence and misdirection on these sort of posts.

          If you don’t trust Internet 2.0 is telling the truth, then how exactly have they evaded defamation lawsuits? Telling lies that negatively impact ByteDance’s operations would be grounds for a lawsuit in all 3 of these countries.

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            6 months ago

            Because launching a defamation suit is a PR disaster for them right now. Just look at you breathlessly repeating unproven accusations from years ago. They hardly need to blow up new ones.

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              6 months ago
              1. Allowing yourself to be defamed is a PR Disaster. Suing the US Federal Government is a PR Disaster.
              2. They could have done it years ago when it hit headlines around the world, too.
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                6 months ago

                Well one of those is required if they want to stay in business and the other one hasn’t had much bearing on their US business. So I think it’s pretty self explanatory.

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                  6 months ago

                  It’s not. Reports of you being a threat to national security seems to have a lot of bearing when lawmakers are banning you.