Trump was right, people just didnt want to admit it.
Comment on TikTok faces calls for ban amid claims of anti-Israel ‘indoctrination’
Wanderer@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Trump tried to ban Tiktok because it was Chinese owned and it got rejected. But now it’s getting banned, why? What’s changed?
Is it actually because it is showing bad things Israel has done or has something else happened? I’m genuinely out of the loop and confused.
Gigan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Right because its chinese owned? What is wrong with that? Or is it only okay when a white western dude owns the company?
Gigan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s because the app is controlled by a foreign adversary. If there was a Russian social media app that collected obscene amounts of user data, people would be rightly calling for that to be banned too.
RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world 8 months ago
But thats such a dumb reason considering the shit that facebook collects and instagram etc. Over the years it has come out that they collect so much damn data. They even did psychological experiments on teenagers by fucking with their timeline and see if they can change how they feel.
theguardian.com/…/facebook-users-emotions-news-fe…
They are tracking so much stuff inside peoples phones. They track everything they do and sell it for money.
And don’t even get me started on google.
You and congress are all up in arms when china or russia does it but are happy happy joy joy when american government or corporations do it themselves.
A couple of corporations own most of the media/news in america and that is all completely fine. Congress doesn’t give a single fuck about any of that.
Its the hypocrisy that pisses me off. No corporations or government should have all this data and manipulate users. But its not a problem at all unless a foreign corporation does it.
And to then ban it in the name of privacy. “Only we can abuse americans! 😠”. Its ridiculous.
echo64@lemmy.world 8 months ago
ImWaitingForRetcons@lemm.ee 8 months ago
These points are all absolutely correct, and generally follow a trend of protectionism sweeping across the globe, but there’s also a genuine concern about how Tiktok shapes public POV based on CCP decisions(for example, suppressing content about the excessive Covid lockdown, the Uyghur and Tibetan genocide, and suppression of Hui Muslims, Hong Kong and other minorities in China).
assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And now it will only be US state department approved propaganda from now on. Losing TikTok isn’t going to be a win I think many people think it will be. It could be, but the policies that will enable it are made with bad intentions in mind so it won’t be.
Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 8 months ago
That content doesn’t seem suppressed, I’ve seen most of those things on TikTok. Some people were actively trying to see if that was true, and while it’s hard to know if it’s being penalised by the algorithm or not, it seemed fine.
If anything I report stuff all the time and it’s just like Facebook and other social media, the reports basically go to
/dev/null. Like, legitimate banworthy content like Elon Musk crypto scams and porn, both examples of things to report when you go to the reporting page.Wanderer@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Occupy Wall Street and Opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) genuinely scared the shit out of them.
I had so much hope for the Internet at that time. But since then it’s turned to horseshit.
FunkPhenomenon@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
that 2nd point… I think it really depends on where you live in America. the west coast states are heavily asian influenced - Chinese expats or people of Chinese descent are a significant population percentage.
echo64@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And thr sinophobia is sadly just as strong there, maybe worse. Stop Asian hate is a campaign for a reason.
FunkPhenomenon@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
eh… its mostly african americans vs asians in my neck of the woods.