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US is the same country that allows a practical monopoly of NVIDIA on GPUs and Intel on CPU (or at least an oligopoly), and then pretend "foreigners are out to get us". It gets one to know one.
I think a lot of people on here never spent much time on TikTok and it shows. It wasn't just for young people and it wasn't all brain rot. There were vibrant communities, subcultures. Real issues were aired there. Real people connected. From the early days of Covid it provided a window into a broader world.
Good riddance. It was nothing but brainrot, spyware and propoganda. Though it's hardly unique in that regard. That's modern social media now.
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HN is a tightly controlled media platform and I don't expect any honest discussion of this issue here.
It's a shame that it's come to this. I feel that all arguments that TikTok is unhealthy or spyware and bad for our general public are valid, but the same arguments also apply to Instagram/Twitter/Whatever. Rather than have some sort of further regulation for what data any application can collect and present to Americans, we've just brought the hammer down on the millions of people that use this application for their…
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Healthy political discourse ?
I clicked open the link to find Yahoo has gone dark in China since 2021. Doesn’t work even with a VPN. I miss the good old days of the Web.
Now days we have way more advanced self-media platforms, but each one is just an island of (both platform-imposed and self-imposed) isolation.
was not really on TikTok but a bleak day for anyone that believes in the free speech ideals the US was founded on
It's a shame that it's come to this. I feel that all arguments that TikTok is unhealthy or spyware and bad for our general public are valid, but the same arguments also apply to Instagram/Twitter/Whatever. Rather than have some sort of further regulation for what data any application can collect and present to Americans, we've just brought the hammer down on the millions of people that use this application for their…
Some money could possibly be made by some people legitimately.
The bleakest part is people who didn't recognize how extreme a gamble it is if that's what somebody wants to pin their entire livelihood on.
Whether they wrote the app or not.
The "house" just drew the winning hand, and all the gamblers lost everything they had on the table at once.
That can happen at any time, and almost always happens eventually, that's why they call it gambling.
It's not so bad if you don't bet everything.