• WamGams@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    People acting more terrified at the loss of tik tok from their lives than they did during covid, while losing people from their lives.

    Tik tok might as well just change their name to empathy box, because they have convinced their users that the act of watching content on empathy box makes them more moral and politically aware than the rest of us.

    At the end of the day, we have to be nervous when a foreign nation has content reach to 80℅ of Americans. This foreign nation is banning Americans from accusing it of genocide while allowing an economic incentive for Americans to accuse themselves and everybody else of doing it.

    Deep down, every one of us knows tik tok is a power nobody can or should be trusted with.

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      3 months ago

      So when are we shutting down Facebook for their 2016 targeted ad campaign specifically meant to fuck with an election?

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        I’m 100℅ in favor of breaking Facebook into 912 separate companies.

        But not having the current political power to get that done doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it to tik tok while we still have the power to.

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          That’s not what they’re talking about doing. They want to sell TikTok to a US interest. Not 900 of them. This is literally a chance for Musk, Zuckerberg, Apple, and Alphabet to grab up the best short form video app for cheap.

          That’s all it is. It is incredibly corrupt and the state department calls that out in other countries all the time.