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South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices

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Re: South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices

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Post by LAC-Tech »

pjc50 wrote: post #17
hammock wrote: post #5

The bigger deal (bigger than the tracking that people usually focus on) might be how the algorithm is specifically tuned to reward dumb content in the US, compared to rewarding STEM and other educational content in China. One minute video that explains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hus9fWz0RRk Further reading: https://www.opindia.com/2022/07/tiktok-china-engineering-oth...

The US doesn't reward factual programming, that's why the History Channel turned into the Ancient Aliens Channel.

As opposed to what other part of the world?

Interest in drier, more educational content is less for every human society I know of.

Re: South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices

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Post by chucksta »

mcculley wrote: post #7
hammock wrote: post #5

The bigger deal (bigger than the tracking that people usually focus on) might be how the algorithm is specifically tuned to reward dumb content in the US, compared to rewarding STEM and other educational content in China. One minute video that explains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hus9fWz0RRk Further reading: https://www.opindia.com/2022/07/tiktok-china-engineering-oth...

How would a skeptic confirm this? Can one get a VPN inside China?

It's open policy, from the link; https://www.china-briefing.com/news/china-passes-sweeping-re... http://www.cac.gov.cn/2022-01/04/c_1642894606364259.htm

Re: South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices

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Post by autotune »

Kye wrote: post #14
autotune wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You've never worked for a gov office have you? Getting any kind of new policies or tools added or updated when it comes to infra and IT can take years, if not decades. I would not be surprised if the one I volunteered at 10 years ago when I got my start is still on Lotus Notes.

Why not? It's still developed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HCL_Domino

There is a reason there are no screen shots on that page showing what the GUI actually looks like.

Re: South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices

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Post by krapp »

pasquinelli wrote: post #18
hammock wrote: post #5

The bigger deal (bigger than the tracking that people usually focus on) might be how the algorithm is specifically tuned to reward dumb content in the US, compared to rewarding STEM and other educational content in China. One minute video that explains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hus9fWz0RRk Further reading: https://www.opindia.com/2022/07/tiktok-china-engineering-oth...

sounds like china has the right idea. it takes me (in america) constantly weeding the garden of my youtube (also american) to minimize the dumb shit it shows me. so does america want stupid americans? is that not the biggest deal?

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Re: South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices

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Post by leereeves »

LAC-Tech wrote: post #21
pjc50 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The US doesn't reward factual programming, that's why the History Channel turned into the Ancient Aliens Channel.

As opposed to what other part of the world? Interest in drier, more educational content is less for every human society I know of.

I found that European TV is a lot drier and more educational than US TV, but I don't know if that's because of interest, regulation, a smaller market (in each language), or ?

Re: South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices

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Post by Spooky23 »

pasquinelli wrote: post #18
hammock wrote: post #5

The bigger deal (bigger than the tracking that people usually focus on) might be how the algorithm is specifically tuned to reward dumb content in the US, compared to rewarding STEM and other educational content in China. One minute video that explains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hus9fWz0RRk Further reading: https://www.opindia.com/2022/07/tiktok-china-engineering-oth...

sounds like china has the right idea. it takes me (in america) constantly weeding the garden of my youtube (also american) to minimize the dumb shit it shows me. so does america want stupid americans? is that not the biggest deal?

Freedumb baby.

Re: South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices

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Post by hammock »

Miner49er wrote: post #10
hammock wrote: post #5

The bigger deal (bigger than the tracking that people usually focus on) might be how the algorithm is specifically tuned to reward dumb content in the US, compared to rewarding STEM and other educational content in China. One minute video that explains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hus9fWz0RRk Further reading: https://www.opindia.com/2022/07/tiktok-china-engineering-oth...

This isn't a choice being made by TikTok, this is due to regulations/laws in China. If the US passed laws requiring TikTok to do the same in the US, they would obviously comply.

>This isn't a choice being made by TikTok, this is...China

Perhaps a distinction without a difference

Re: South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices

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Post by ketzo »

technion wrote: post #16
elmerfud wrote: post #2

I would think they would ban lots of apps on state owned devices. There's a lot of trash apps out there that are nothing but spyware.

My wife worked for the government. When they deployed wfh, they used mfa. They banned Google authenticator out of the view Google can't be trusted. But told people to search the app store for any other mfa app. They one my wife found makes you wait for an ad run before it displays the code. It sometimes crashes and is generally terrible. The point being banning certain apps seems far more political than well thought…

Sorry, their official MFA policy was "just go find a random one"? How would that even work? Do they have a contract with every MFA service?
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