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Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users

herpaderp@lemmynsfw.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

It depends. I’ve heard second hand accounts that TikTok can push pro-Chinese propaganda, and whenever I pointed out that China isn’t some lefty paradise to some people in my life they were either shocked or fell into the “you’re falling in line with the Western Propaganda, I see 😏”

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FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m much less concerned with what they’re giving than what they’re taking with the app. It’s been shown to collect message history and photo library data, that alone is a threat to us all.

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- herpaderp@lemmynsfw.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I agree! Both are issues, but I was giving a different context where a TikTok user may not care about it being under the thumb of the CCP.
  
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  - Misconduct@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Why would I care? Is it somehow better for google or facebook to profit off of my data? China doesn’t even solely own the app. They don’t even own enough of the app to censor it and so it’s banned in China lmao
    
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    irreticent@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    They don’t even own enough of the app to censor it and so it’s banned in China lmao
    
    Why do you keep repeating that all over this post? It’s not even true (unproven):
    
    www.snopes.com/…/is-tiktok-banned-in-china/
    
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Misconduct@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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- Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Doesnt tiktok have a personalized feed for China that promotes healthy habits and everywhere else it’s more likely to morph into brain dead content spirale?
  
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  - Misconduct@startrek.website ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Personalized feed? What? I’ve never heard of anything like that
    
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    Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    One of the things I read about: nypost.com/…/china-is-hurting-us-kids-with-tiktok…
    
    BUT I don’t know if it’s actually true.
    
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- irreticent@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  TikTok is banned in China
  
  That remains unproven:
  
  “TikTok has never been available in China, as the country has its own version of the app, called Douyin. Both apps are owned by the same Chinese company, ByteDance. Thus far, we’ve been unable to find definitive proof that TikTok is or is not officially banned in China.”
  
  www.snopes.com/…/is-tiktok-banned-in-china/
  
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