India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps

Post by mav3rick » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 1:43 AM UTC

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Jesse Ventura wasn't affiliated with either party, along with a lot of people on that list. The founding fathers were afraid of democracy itself and put in many explicit constraints on it, never mind undesired self-organization like the two parties. So it's easy to find perspectives from which the US isn't the archytype democracy. But what's the point? That it somehow a bit farther down the road to authoritarianism a…

They are state governors, but did the state have a majority that wasn't either of the two main parties? That's the point. In India, in this particular instance, majority of the population were sick of the political parties in the country, there were protests and then this person created an entire new party and this party went to get elected in the capital state. I think that's the what democracy should allow you to d…

Post by buzzkillington » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 1:47 AM UTC

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>B) If the "western world" is the bar, the bar is low. And yet China manages to fail this low bar stunningly. To the point that they are running actual concentration camps for Muslims. Something no Western government has done, and the last one to do finished paying reparations to the victims 4 years ago, 70 years after it happened.

Western governments literally have a history of slavery. Right now, America is running actual concentration camps for African Americans. Don’t think western governments are any better.

Post by identity0 » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 1:49 AM UTC

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That isn't a natural dichotomy, it's silly to break down problems into that sort of black and white ("you're either for us or against us!" sort of nonsense). There are always multiple choices. The real question is whether reacting with similar intolerance leaves you better off - or has any meaningful influence on the bad actors in question. Diplomacy is full of these tradeoffs.

But it is you cannot be tolerant of all things. You can't simultaneously be tolerant of cats and of people who wish to ban cats. Those two things cannot simultaneously be accepted.

Post by thekyle » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 1:50 AM UTC

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A reddit user, who claims to have reverse-engineered the TikTok app[1], concluded: > TikTok is a data collection service that is thinly-veiled as a social network. If there is an API to get information on you, your contacts, or your device... well, they're using it. > For what it's worth I've reversed the Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter apps. They don't collect anywhere near the same amount of data that TikT…

> There's also a few snippets of code on the Android version that allows for the downloading of a remote zip file, unzipping it, and executing said binary. If these claims are true, a remote state actor can now take over 40% of young American's phones. Imagine if they decided to shut off everyone's ability to communicate. That would be an incredible capability to possess in the event that they wanted to launch an att…

Post by sudosysgen » Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 1:53 AM UTC

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No. Keeping out LGBT related keywords was shown to increase their performance.

Yeah but is it the algorithm suppressing such content, or is that outside of a vocal minority, similar tags reduce interest in the content, on average?