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was not really on TikTok but a bleak day for anyone that believes in the free speech ideals the US was founded on
Aww yes I believe it was Thomas Jefferson who wrote about the need to form a more perfect union that allows hostile foreign governments to run a direct unfettered pipeline into the minds of its youth with zero oversight.
There's an interesting cognitive bias in the western media that tends to define freedom of the press (and freedom of expression) as exactly what is perceived as freedom in this side of the iron curtain. Libgen domains are "seized", and tiktok "goes dark", but of course other countries "censor" porn or news outlets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Press_Freedom_Index
Much ado about nothing! Not available for download a day at max! (You can still use the app if it’s already installed) The ban will be repealed on Monday and it will be sold to US tech lords by month’s end. The damn hysteria is embarrassing
That’s not true though. Tik Tok chose to block US users this evening even though that’s technically not what the bill asks for.
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But that is precisely what I was talking about. You do not seem to find any commonality between censoring different categories of websites or apps. As far as I understand it, "media", "gambling", "porn", "politics" are quite common categories when researching (and defining) online censorship. See, for instance, https://censoredplanet.org/censoredplanet You say "banned", but that is not quite the same as "censored". J…
> You do not seem to find any commonality between censoring different categories of websites or apps.
The fact that they're different is important. Pornography is really different from journalism. Aversion against public nudity and sexual acts is deeply ingrained in many cultures, if not all. It also doesn't serve any democratic goal. Freedom of porn isn't a human right.
The app was shutdown a couple of hours ago in the US and this was the message all TikTok users saw when they opened the app.[1] The same guy who pushed for a ban massively last year, is going to save the app despite the security concerns he and most of our government said they had. If only we knew what happened in that classified briefing that made them vote together across party lines. [1] https://a57.foxnews.com/st…
Instead he signed it into law without question.
Is it possible that all of these are true at the same time? - Tiktok has great content and a great algorithm to help you find it - Tiktok advances Chinese interests - Tiktok spies and collects data, such as scraping your clipboard, network - Tiktok collects face recognition data on citizens worldwide - Tiktok is addictive, and designed to be - Tiktok is cultural expression, and contributes to people's feeling of iden…
This does not seem possible, Tiktok was launched in 2016.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/tiktok-us...
I generally care about good and bad arguments even if I agree or disagree with the direction of the argument itself. But in terms of TikTok, I don't care. Burn it down. If Trump uses his first 100 days to pressure his 3 vote majority in the House to vote to overturn something they passed overwhelmingly it's a pretty startling indication of his priorities and loyalties in his second term. His crypto-scam this weekend…
Why did they vote unanimously? Why was it bundled into a rushed relief bill?
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…
None of those arguments are the salient one, which is that a geopolitical adversary has control over a major influence vector on US public opinion. They could simply have divested.
TikTok's manipulation of the feed has been proven through extensive public studies: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/tiktok-is-just-the-beginning
The pressing need to ban it on security grounds likely extends further into non-public knowledge - Let us not forget that in the current political landscape it's pretty hard to get both major parties to agree on anything, then to actually also vote that way: but that's what happened with regard to TikTok.