“I’m super excited to announce that >150 million Americans are on TikTok. That’s almost half of the US!” — TikTok CEO

Translation: “The CCP has a direct line to 150M Americans, and I’ll highlight the # instead of the data we harvest from them.”

https://twitter.com/mamachell/status/1638184321604280320

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Honestly in the spirit of capitalism and democracy I don’t really care. 

If the US wants to win, it needs to ship better social apps. 

If people are actually upset about privacy, let them vote.

Restricting technology has always been a loser’s game.

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Socrates on the invention of writing

“If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks.”

New tech is scary to big brains

Is there any argument here or take on the mental impact, focus etc tiktok is having? Should apps really be able to design free-reign even at the detriment of society?

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I agree with you (and so do we lol)

If it’s urgent enough, the US will just shut down phones en masse full stop. 

My point is that if it’s the best product out there, Americans will find a way to use jailbroken TikTok just like they pirated movies, music, etc until it was clearly better to just not do that.

China is an adversary and they have civil-military fusion. TikTok will almost certainly be weaponized around the time of the Taiwan invasion.