cynetri

@cynetri@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok is blocking searches for WGA amid the ongoing writers strike⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I jumped to transphobia because of my personal experience with gender. Yes, misogyny is a better word. That’s not a mark on trans people though, I’m not the one attacking people’s identities here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok is blocking searches for WGA amid the ongoing writers strike⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Why the transphobia? I clearly use he/him pronouns, why would you mention panties? Not cool.

  You could’ve engaged in a civil manner, there absolutely was room for civility politics. Don’t accuse me of getting pissy first when you called me “stupid” in another comment before I said another word. You made it toxic. My initial comment was nothing but objective in content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok is blocking searches for WGA amid the ongoing writers strike⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course ByteDance is influenced by its government, every company is. And to more of an extent in China, because China is governed by a communist-inspired party who seeks to crush bourgeois influence.

  My point is that this instance is much more likely an example of ByteDance doing pretty normal, if stupid, private company things. Hell, TikTok itself doesn’t even exist in China. They do have a very similar sister app, Doiyin, but operations between the two are ultimately separate.

  According to the article in the post, this suppression of the writer’s strike was related to its effort to remove QAnon-related content from the platform. Apparently some QAnon acronym has WGA in it, and sure, you can dismiss that statement as deflection, and I wouldn’t fault you for it. But then I raise this question:

  What does China stand to gain suppressing information about a strike in the US?

  It doesn’t help anyone here be more pro-communist, if anything they would push pro-union content for that. China’s image isn’t being emboldened in the US for this, as your comment clearly shows it makes it worse. It makes far more sense for TikTok’s US operations to be suppressing pro-union information, whether at the request of other companies or their own enrichment. But even then, that would easily be spotted and called out, as it did even still. I believe China has far more to gain with its existing spy operations and suppression of internal affairs such as Xinjiang than it does with a labor strike in an entirely sifferent country that its own citizens likely have little, if any, knowledge about.

  I don’t like China’s government, by the way. The reason I say all this isn’t to defend them, the reason I do it is because people tend to blame all of Chinese companies’ bad decisions on China itself instead of the companies. Intentionally or not, it absolves the companies of wrongdoing and puts it on China. While China obviously deserves plenty of criticism, from people of all ideologies, this situation just isn’t relevant to that discussion. I also suspect the mass panic surrounding Chinese influence is in no insignificant part manufactured to make the US populace okay with going to war over Taiwan. This isn’t anything new, remember Iraq’s WMDs? I want people to focus on fixing our own, very significant issues, here at home before turning attention overseas. This applies to other countries too but that’s out of scope for this discussion.

  That being said, you’re right, I’m not going to continue. Not because I’m not interested in good faith discussion, as my wall of text implies, but because you straight up insulted me and that’s a dick move. My comment might have sounded stern, and I apologize for not clarifying my tone, but you didn’t need to go full Reddit warrior at the end of your comment either. To assume you’d “win” a discussion, instead of engaging to learn the other side, is pathetic and insulting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok is blocking searches for WGA amid the ongoing writers strike⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  TikTok is a product from a private company called ByteDance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s optional so eh, but it doesn’t encorurage healthy habits either

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an app that encourages users at a random time to share an image of their immediate surroundings, trying to kind of push an authentic feel. I remember hearing about it from some memes a year or so ago

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After a few minutes of trying, I've found I may be a robot. I failed the reCaptcha exam.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s never really about identifying anything, recaptcha cares way more about data it has on you to determine if you’re a human or not. If you’ve ever tried to google search with a VPN or Tor it makes it really fuckin annoying

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamers nexus on LTT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What I thought was interesting about this is that apparently not only me, but tons of other people have all kinda felt like LTT has seemed off the past year or so, and this video kinda explained it all

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some of them literally are...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The Xitter has Xcrements in it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The article didn’t mention a protest, but the server being compromised due to some sort of unrelated charges was the main topic for a lot of the article