Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out

charonn0@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• coarse@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It was a ban on tiktok, but not “their voice.”

  The goal is to move tiktokt profits out of China and into the US.

  Privacy concerns are a load of bullshit and you shouldn’t believe anyone telling you otherwise.

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  • charonn0@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve actually read the law, so no one has to tell me that it really, actually is about privacy. I know that it is.

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    • PhAzE@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Lemmy users are just going to believe whatever they want to believe, instead of actually checking the facts.

      It’s 100% about privacy. Data collection, and algorithm manipulation to sway what users see in the interest of the Cinese government. If users think Russian interference is a problem, we’ll this amounts to the same thing.

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      • RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        the Cinese government

        So it’s about foreign policy and not privacy. Or does the law somehow affect Facebook products too which are the same crap from an individual privacy perspective?

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      • Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What about, say, giving users control or at least insight into what data is collected?

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    • hark@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s about privacy in the same way “protect the children” bills are about protecting the children.

      Narrator: it’s not.

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    • coarse@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok#Potential_data_colle…

      The United States has not offered any evidence of TikTok sharing such information with Chinese authorities.

      Can you share any information to contradict this?

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      • fathog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        forbes.com/…/tiktok-bytedance-surveillance-americ…

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      • charonn0@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Can you explain why you feel that would even be necessary?

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    • Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If it was actually about privacy then the US would be introducing data transparency and control laws (which only kicks in here if TikTok doesn’t sell to a US company). Whether it’s the US wanting to stream their own bullshit to kids or just that sweet sweet ad revenue, this is in no way about privacy or “protecting the children”.

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      • charonn0@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That’s a separate issue that could not be addressed with this kind of law anyway.

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  • Emmie@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    user banned for ‘ban evasion’ to let know if someone searches for it like me

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