TikTok USA Thread - Right Wing Billionaires Buying Controlling Stake At $14 Billion Valuation

[TheDarceKnight]

I will say social media was FAR better when it was dumb. No corporate marketing algorithms, you saw things in order of people posting them, no mal-vertising based tracking. Not even algorithms for showing more content that you like. It continues to perpetuate echo chambers and divides in the population.

But yet again, you'd almost have to ditch the whole thing because you can't go back on this stuff now. Legislating it out of existence may be the best bet.

I agree with all of this but yeah you saying the bolded made me remember how much better it was back then. Just timeline feeds.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

My foster daughter is addicted too. She has her own channel mostly doing lip syncs and ~10,000 followers and it's pretty sad to me.

TikTok is the one app I've somehow managed to hold out on and for some reason it's just never reeled me in. I know a lot of folks that sink a lot of time on there though

 

[The Bilingual Gringo]

U.S. lawmakers unveil bipartisan bid to ban China's TikTok

Republican Senator Marco Rubio on Tuesday announced bipartisan legislation to ban China's popular social media app TikTok, ratcheting up pressure on owner ByteDance Ltd amid U.S. fears the app could be used to spy on Americans and censure content.

www.reuters.com

 

[the elastic]

I like TikTok but yea

We can easily make a replacement

 

[88m3]

US Senate Votes to Ban TikTok App on Government-Owned Phones​

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

 

[88m3]

Young TikTok Users Quickly Encounter Problematic Posts, Researchers Say

TikTok starts recommending content tied to eating disorders and self-harm to 13-year-olds within 30 minutes of their joining the platform, according to a report.

www.nytimes.com

TikTok appears to be pushing videos about eating disorders and self-harm to 13-year-old users at a rapid clip, researchers said on Wednesday, raising new concerns about the service’s influence on young people.




that isn't great tbh

 

[Bboystyle]

Ban all social media.

Zeroing in on Tiktkok/China misses the point. Its all of em.

While we're at it, dumb down the internet too. Bring back the dial up days. These people now a days are so impatient that dial up would have them bushing the internet and getting back to living a normal life instead of living on their phones and devices

 

[mastermind]

I like TikTok but yea

We can easily make a replacement

Why do you want a replacement?

 

[the elastic]

Why do you want a replacement?

 

[mastermind]

This is why we fail as a country.

China/Russia=bad
American/Western capitalist doing the same thing=inject it into my veins

 

[ill]

This is why we fail as a country.

China/Russia=bad
American/Western capitalist doing the same thing=inject it into my veins

I certainly understand the sentiment but in this case China = bad

 

[mastermind]

I certainly understand the sentiment but in this case China = bad

I’m consistent, they are all bad

 

[Serious]

TikTok pushes potentially harmful content to users as often as every 39 seconds, study says

TikTok recommends self-harm and eating disorder content to some users within minutes of joining the platform, according to a new report published by the Center for Countering Digital Hate.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[50CentStan]

Should have been banned and another american one could have copied it.

 

[chineebai]

Quite honestly, might as well ban all social media.