Tik tok is getting banned because it’s more popular than the American counter parts and has nothing to do with China gathering information.
The author stated china could just buy user data. So the argument of privacy concerns is invalid.
TikTok fears point to larger problem: Poor media literacy in the social media age
Submitted 6 months ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 6 months ago
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 months ago
“Poor” media literacy?
Any.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This is dumb. Their whole argument is that “anyone can buy information”. That’s not the point. The point is they own the information. And the ownership matters A LOT.
Who owns your information is the biggest scam on the people of our generation. Who owns the information for where you go and what you do can lead to so many problems. See Facebook and Google.
They completely glaze over this and ignore it completely. That also doesn’t account for what they could here if the microphone has access that isn’t common knowledge.
The writer has no idea what is going on.
pop@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Ban all social media if you think ownership is the point. Or is it only a problem now because you’re not the top dog in internet surveillance? You schum come over like the ownership matters “now” when the pole position is from a different country is hilarious and very telling.
They (Tiktok) has owned the information for about 10th of the time social media companies became a thing. Everyone in the US was fine then while social media companies were sowing discord/violence/hate and genocide abroad, now everyone else is fine most US social media data is owned by someone else. Deal with it.
It’s not the author who’s out of touch. The same recipe US used to create mega corp monopolies is coming to bite you, it’s just controlled by the CCP, LMAO.
Keep telling yourself whatever makes you seem you’re on the righteous side. You’re fooling no one. you do you tho.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You don’t know anything about me. You created this whole facade in your life. Not mine. You have zero clue of what social media I use, if any. And if I do, why.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
It’s a problem now because China is a hostile state.
Yes, that obviously matters.
hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Peak troll behavior.
Can’t even find the argument between your insults, this comment is hilarious, but not in the good way.
And if you wanna have an answer that’s actually informative: it doesn’t matter which company, which country or where, but having content based information as well as metadata can lead to so much power, and there’s a good argument to be made that no one deserves blackmail levels of power over your life, especially a random cooperation that’s beholden to no one except it’s own rules.
And before you go on a tirade again: no, this has absolutely nothing to do with country or anything, this is an ethical dilemma which can be extended to any country.