Comment on TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill

Guidy@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Now it will be for the US fascists instead of chinese fascists, Nazis were german.

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• Smith6612@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It will actually be for both! Emphasis on the part of the article where it says China will still have a stake of 20% in the company, AND they get to keep the algorithm.

  All the US is doing is buying up physical assets and infrastructure, and the user base. The juicy bits they wanted, they didn’t get. Everyone is likely going to jump off of TikTok the moment it comes time to segment the US market from the Rest of the World. China doesn’t have to do a thing because Douyin is already maintained separately for the Chinese market.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    China doesn’t have to do a thing because Douyin is already maintained separately for the Chinese market.

    Nobody really wanted to grapple with the reality. They just saw “Chinese investors mean Communist propaganda means Americans most be protected from the thing”. Then Cold War brainrot kicked in and that was that.

    A country that fumbles this hard doesn’t deserve to exist.

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    • Smith6612@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s the same kind of people who think Socialism means Communism, without realizing that anything funded by taxpayers is already, technically, a socialized knowledge/service/product. That includes the roads their vehicles drive on and the military if you want to put it that far.

      One might incorporate principles of the other, but that doesn’t make it the other product automatically.

      In the meantime, the Poopaganda machine will continue running with the kind of ignorance being shown.

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      • Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “Socialism is when the government does things” is dumber than thinking socialism and communism are the same thing.

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  • Furbag@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The thing that will kill this is forcing users to migrate to a new app. Removing the largest friction barrier that prevents people from leaving your app by forcing them to cross it is a great way to scatter the TikTok userbase to the four winds.

    I hope this kills TikTok, and that the people who enjoyed using it remember who was responsible for it.

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• yucandu@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Let’s be real. They’re all working together.

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• Deflated0ne@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh it’s been working for GovCo and Israel since it came back from the 1 day ban and Shou started licking Chumps ass. The change was immediate and noticeable.

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  • Hector@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Of course it was about Israel

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  • Fergie434@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yup every top comment on TikTok now is almost always the most divisive shit. I assume they’re doing the equivalent of reddits “sort by controversial”. It changed as soon as it came back.

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• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Now it will be overt instead of a vague conspiracy.

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