Or perhaps the purpose of TikTok is not to provide a platform for young, Western narcissists but rather to gather behavioural data?
Saul D
2 months ago
Tiktok disappearing probably doesn’t matter in the great scheme of things. The problem for the lawmakers in the US is it’s reach now, prior to being shutdown.
A snap campaign from Tiktok advocates on the platform along the lines of ‘Joe Biden is shutting down fun’ or is disrespecting young people by closing Tiktok could turn young, mostly apolitical, but still democrat, voters away from voting for Biden in a year where election margins look very slim for a Biden re-election.
Jamie
2 months ago
Surely the problem here is banning this form of free speech by the government. As RFKJr says, all rights historically have been banned in the name of national security while tyrants flatter themselves that they protect the people. The battle here is not over one platform or another. It
Is about government over reach. Aka censorship.
Precisely.
While the government should not censor speech, getting rid of known enemy Spyware in this country seems like a no-brainer. Probably why this bill has such bipartisan support.
Jae
2 months ago
Our own governments are as malign as any Chinese owned entity. Just ask Matt Taibi, Jay Bhattacharya or Michael Shellenberger.
TikTok, like all social media, are data gathering operations and you are the revenue source. The extent of CCP’s data gathering is unknown. What they’re using the data for is unknown. How deep they are getting into members’ photos, emails, text messages, other app usage, the data of other cell-plan subscribers who are not on TikTok but whose data are exposed because of their daughter’s account is unknown. The author reminds me of a lot of my daughters’ friends who can’t imagine that social media is really that powerful and dangerous of a force because, you know, that’s where all their friends are. Her premise is this: it doesn’t matter what legislation you pass because some other entity will come along and herd us once again into a critical mass where we can be held captive and manipulated. Why fight it?
Tyler Durden
2 months ago
This platform has obviously been aimed at children. It wouldn’t surprise me if the regime in China commissioned their developers to train it on the youth overseas.
It’s made the CCP as happy as marketeers. Less for reasons of spying but corrupting Western youth and dividing their societies.
Pity that the Chinese population does not have similar freedom to digitally migrate
maybe the author could consider why tik tok is so popular, and why the others are not.
Because they got in there first?
Or perhaps the purpose of TikTok is not to provide a platform for young, Western narcissists but rather to gather behavioural data?
Tiktok disappearing probably doesn’t matter in the great scheme of things. The problem for the lawmakers in the US is it’s reach now, prior to being shutdown.
A snap campaign from Tiktok advocates on the platform along the lines of ‘Joe Biden is shutting down fun’ or is disrespecting young people by closing Tiktok could turn young, mostly apolitical, but still democrat, voters away from voting for Biden in a year where election margins look very slim for a Biden re-election.
Surely the problem here is banning this form of free speech by the government. As RFKJr says, all rights historically have been banned in the name of national security while tyrants flatter themselves that they protect the people. The battle here is not over one platform or another. It
Is about government over reach. Aka censorship.
People can say what they want, just not on Chinese Spyware masquerading as a platform.
Not sure the point of this article
Yes tick tock users will migrate. So what.
The point here is that platforms owned and run by enemy or enemy aligned states can weaponise any collected data.
Attacking ‘Cultural.health’ of a society is still grey zone warfare
Precisely.
While the government should not censor speech, getting rid of known enemy Spyware in this country seems like a no-brainer. Probably why this bill has such bipartisan support.
Our own governments are as malign as any Chinese owned entity. Just ask Matt Taibi, Jay Bhattacharya or Michael Shellenberger.
Agreed. But that’s a different problem.
TikTok, like all social media, are data gathering operations and you are the revenue source. The extent of CCP’s data gathering is unknown. What they’re using the data for is unknown. How deep they are getting into members’ photos, emails, text messages, other app usage, the data of other cell-plan subscribers who are not on TikTok but whose data are exposed because of their daughter’s account is unknown. The author reminds me of a lot of my daughters’ friends who can’t imagine that social media is really that powerful and dangerous of a force because, you know, that’s where all their friends are. Her premise is this: it doesn’t matter what legislation you pass because some other entity will come along and herd us once again into a critical mass where we can be held captive and manipulated. Why fight it?
This platform has obviously been aimed at children. It wouldn’t surprise me if the regime in China commissioned their developers to train it on the youth overseas.
It’s made the CCP as happy as marketeers. Less for reasons of spying but corrupting Western youth and dividing their societies.