• jaschen@lemm.ee
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        2 months ago

        Wait, is there another psyops software the CCP has deployed in the US?

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          Probably plenty. Tik tok is just the biggest owned by a foreign government that also is showing pretty immediate extreme negative effects on children’s attention spans and learning capabilities.

          But people are still gonna whine because they’re 25 year olds who need to watch 80 videos of unboxing shoes in 4 minutes . That’s really the only pro tik tok argument there is.

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            2 months ago

            It sets a pretty chilling precedent that non-American competition can be forced to sell to Americans for (insert arbitrary reason here).

            I am in favor of TikTok at least becoming restricted to adults only if not outright banned, just warning about the consequences of doing it this way.

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              It really doesn’t set a bad precedent forcing a foreign adversary to have less control over the US population. We should really force the sale of a lot of Chinese properties in the US as well. A foreign government should not have so much control over rental and housing prices in the US.

              Why are you pro foreign adversary controlling the daily lives of Americans? It’s a very odd stance to take and openly say unless you’re not American obviously.

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      “In my household, the only addictive spyware we use is made in the USA!!!”

      Edit: everyone below me is proving my point exactly.

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        Unironically yes, at least the US government is something we can openly criticize and attempt to change while living within its borders. Try criticizing the Chinese government from within China, let me know how that works out for you. I’ll take homegrown American spyware any day.

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        2 months ago

        People love to repeat this, but US companies aren’t coming from a place of hostile intent like china’s special brand of tik tok for the states.

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          2 months ago

          They’re both focused on profit. The only reason you see the other one as scary is because it’s owned by the scary scary Chinese. Red scare all over again.

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            2 months ago

            No tiktok is not focused on profit. It literally has one of the worst/non existent monetization systems.

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                2 months ago

                Case in point. Vine literally can’t survive and so shouldn’t TikTok. Unless of course it’s getting propped up by a government with endless funds and not focused on profits.

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              Because the USA strong armed them into giving their platform handling to Oracle Corp, a top tier US govt contractor.

              But since pro-palestine cries can’t be silenced on TikTok as easily as Zio media, taking control of the platform is no longer enough