I dunno what hill you’re trying to die on here. A stupid dancing app that provides a data collection platform by a foreign surveillance state is a plot on the Orville. Nobody is concerned with it competing with Google, Apple orYouTube. It’s so off-base. Google sucks anyway. If people are searching on TikTok it’s because it’s giving better results for them than Google. It’s about who is collecting the data.
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kadu@lemmy.world 8 months ago[deleted]
rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
kadu@lemmy.world 8 months ago
[deleted]rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
No, I think it sets a bad precedent. I don’t think TikTok should be allowed in the US (if the US decides it doesn’t want it as they’re seeming to). Taking the property is going to cause a bunch of what you mentioned.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Well if it’s such a useful tool, it will do just fine in China, right? No biggie.
kadu@lemmy.world 8 months ago
[deleted]pycorax@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Isn’t this in some way the same as how China bans a number of foreign companies from operating? I don’t think doing the exact same thing is entirely fair but when others aren’t playing by the same rules, it’s a lot less black and white.
fuzzyspudkiss@midwest.social 8 months ago
I can’t order Jimmy John’s on my work computer anymore. Why? Because tiktok is blocked on our work network. What does tiktok have to do with Jimmy John’s? Well I would have thought nothing expect it won’t let you set your delivery option unless it’s allowed to send data to analytics.tiktok.com.
Why is a God damn sandwich shop sending my location to tiktok? No idea, but it’s definitely not just the video app that’s the problem.