Augustvscaesar.eth
@augustuscaesar
What is your take on TikTok? Chinese spyware or it’s okay? I think the only way to allow a foreign app is to allow end to end encryption for all internet users but the US loves to have backdoors for themselves so of course China would use it. https://apple.news/Aa1NBt28MQ1Gep3LOKNhJpA
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Chainleft
@chainleft
The addiction claim is not false, but also... All social media is that way? Maybe because it's video-based and its algo is objectively more powerful than others, they're even more addictive but that's kind of their success a little too. If TikTok is sued, Insta should be sued too.
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Jorge Schnura
@schnura
I think being spied has no effect on the average person. What its algo does to people's brains though, that's where the real harm is
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netop://ウエハ
@netopwibby.eth
Xenophobia is lame. TikTok is just better at being a creepy time suck and our government is jealous about that.
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Sabato🎩
@sabato
Tiktok is a great app that has democratized film making but with a less toxic algorithm compared to instagram or xwitter. I think the proposed bans and lawsuits are more about anti-competitive sinophobia and imperial hegemony than any objective fears.
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Father Morwen
@alditrus
I definitely think it's a net negative for society. I'm also pretty confident it's spyware, but whether it's any worse than the US gov spying on its own citizens, I can't really say.
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blackicon.eth
@blackicon.eth
Spyware or not, the harm it causes is equal, if not greater, than any other conventional social media platform. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/11/tiktok-risks-pushing-children-towards-harmful-content/
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ben
@oldirtybenji.eth
It’s Chinese spyware and also manipulative. In the us the spyware and psyops are split more between the government and corporations
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