Comment on TikTok is a Time Bomb

• MamboGator@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s more like “the Chinese government controls the thing an entire generation reaching voting age stares at all day.” If you thought Facebook and Twitter were bad for disinformation and radicalizing people just wait.

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The only politics I learned on Tiktok was left leaning capitalism and basic socialist ideas.

    If that’s radical then Lemmy is worse.

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    • metallic_substance@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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      • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        True!

        What have you seen?

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    • redfox@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ha! I feel like there isn’t anyone who isn’t considered a fascist on Lemmy 😉

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      • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s exactly what a fascist would say!

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      • metallic_substance@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You ever read 1984? You remember the bit about newspeak? Well go have a conversation with a zoomer sometime and pay attention to the word choice they use for controversial subjects like suicide and murder (self/other unalive), depression (big sad), pornography (corn), neurodivergence (neurospicy), etc.

  I’m not saying TikTok is solely to blame, but content recommendation algorithms are definitely warping the language people use. Almost all of these genZ slang terms originated as weasel words to talk about these touchy subjects without getting deplatformed by an algorithm designed to keep things advertiser-friendly

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s true that it’s affecting language, but if anything it shows that trying to force newspeak doesn’t really work. People get creative.

    In monocultures like most of China, it can work locally, such as in suppression of knowledge of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, but outside their direct control they can’t stop the signal.

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  • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Every new word the kids use is literally 1984” - an idiots guide to linguistics.

    The words you mentioned were made to appease the extremely sensitive sensibilities of advertisers, not really the effect of a government conspiracy.

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• THE_MASTERMIND@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oh no ! All you had to do was uninstall it .

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  • Rob@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    this comment needs more likes.

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• rhebucks-zh@incremental.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  For us turning to ultranationalism will not be a move of racism, but of self-preservation.

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  • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    shut the fuck up dork

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• dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My god it’s Chinpokomon all over again

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