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ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

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

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

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ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Lawmaker: TikTok must "sever relationship with the Chinese Communist Party."
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    I don’t see why users would even have a problem with this. Same services, more competitive market, and with less ties to an evil dictatorship should be celebrated, right?

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      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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        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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          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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            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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              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):

              https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/is-tiktok-banned-in-china/

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          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.”

          https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/is-tiktok-banned-in-china/

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          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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            Personalized feed? What? I’ve never heard of anything like that

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              One of the things I read about: https://nypost.com/2023/02/25/china-is-hurting-us-kids-with-tiktok-but-protecting-its-own/

              BUT I don’t know if it’s actually true.

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