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Essay: How do you describe TikTok?

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I might like if but I have major ethical issues with doing business with any Chinese (or Saudi or North Korean or Vietnamese etc) company if it can be avoided. Why prop up a dictatorship?

The unawareness of the people here is worrying. Given its track record of censorships, especially of topics regarding the Uyghurs and Hong Kong, it is just unethical to support such a company.

To be fair, if you were to give the same treatment to all other nations, you wouldn't use or buy anything which involves electricity, or any advanced tool. Back to the stone age, to be clear.

The US, in particular, has a very "compelling" story of such things, even if some of these might not be as recent as China's.

Re: Essay: How do you describe TikTok?

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I fee like I've gone around on TikTok. At first it was a joke and a silly waste of time, then it blew my mind with how subversive and funny it could be, then I was scrolling it for hours at a time, then I felt uncomfortable, now I rarely even open it. It's a bit like a drug. Heroin is supposedly extremely good, meth too. Yes, TikTok manages to find and repeatedly push that little satisfaction button in your brain in…

Yep, I love TikTok but I uninstalled it because it's so easy to spend hours on it and not even realize it.

Re: Essay: How do you describe TikTok?

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post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I might like if but I have major ethical issues with doing business with any Chinese (or Saudi or North Korean or Vietnamese etc) company if it can be avoided. Why prop up a dictatorship?

The unawareness of the people here is worrying. Given its track record of censorships, especially of topics regarding the Uyghurs and Hong Kong, it is just unethical to support such a company.

Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Vietnam. Highest imprisonment rate in the world. Not even scratching the surface.
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