The Billionaire Keeping TikTok on Phones in the U.S.::Financier Jeff Yass made a big bet on the app, and he’s a top donor to lawmakers who support it.
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I really wish bots were forced to provide their github and/or who is running the bot. Its really annoying have a lot of content posted by bots woth no way to report errors. This bot posts soo much and always has that tiny “summary” of the posts. Can’t it at least use the auto tldr bot code to give decent summaries?
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Summary: US politics is corrupt as hell, GOP now supporting Chinese spyware after getting bribed aka donations.
Turn the corruption up to eleven and rip the knob off.
Not to mention, most articles aren’t even technology news. News about a business that makes software doesn’t mean it’s technology news.
Yass Queen.
TikTok isn’t like American data harvesting apps.
For Facebook and Snapchat the main data purchasers are Ad companies.(All mainstream social media is complicit in selling data to rival superpowers, I just believe Tik Tok intentionally feeds more harmful content to youth than other platforms) The CCP has party officials on TikTok’s board of directors. The app is designed to force feed an endless stream of toxic behaviors, overstimulating content, low quality journalism and disinformation mixed in with entertainment to the West’s youth in an effort to influence them. They take your data input (what videos you like, what you don’t like, what captivates you, how gullible you are) and create a psychological profile. If you have your camera and mic access on the data they can collect on you increases significantly. The more you use it, the stronger your psychological profile gets. At a certain point, they can start throwing in toxic content that fits your profile to manipulate you mentally. The main goal is to show you content that makes you angry, upset, or distracted to ruin your day. If you use it daily, it can add up. This is why we’re having a national mental health crisis and why grades are slipping in schools.Zuckerberg has been caught illegally selling data to China multiple times in the last decade.
Please tell me more about how Facebook is a better steward of my information.
I’m not saying Facebook is better- I despise Facebook just as much. I always thought of Facebook as the disinformation campaign for older middle Americans and Tik Tok for the youth. It’s kind of mind blowing that they sell anyone’s information to the highest bidder, and the politics of it are just a front. Updated my main comment to reflect this.
If you mean that they intentionally show you content to make you unbalanced and angry, we don’t have evidence for Tiktok doing that.
But we do know that Facebook does that! As well as Twitter to an extent even before enshittification commenced.
Unfortunately this is a newer theory so studies are limited right now- even studies proving otherwise are inconclusive or nonexistent. I’d love to see more official research put into this or for Tik Tok to release their source code. I don’t mean to come across as pushing a political agenda or spreading inconclusive information, but in my experience Tik Tok shows much more toxic content than other short form video platforms. I believe this is why the bill to ban Tik Tok got so much bipartisan support, but they can’t release the information about it being a cognitive weapon due to it being classified defense information (I’m sure the US has it’s own operations)
Here’s a study from a British advocacy group against online hate and misinformation: https://counterhate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CCDH-Deadly-by-Design_120922.pdf Tik Tok allows content promoting eating disorders: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0267997
Here’s the opinion piece that got me onto this tangent: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/25/tiktok-china-cognitive-warfare-us-ban Here’s my favorite read, some brainstorming from a few years back by NATO about the future of information warfare: https://www.innovationhub-act.org/sites/default/files/2021-01/20210122_CW Final.pdfI’ve also seen with my own eyes teenage relatives using Tik Tok and having a video of a gruesome dead cat, self harm or content promoting opioid use being thrown into their For You feeds (otherwise nothing but overstimulating slime videos and sped-up influencer drama).
Even if the current studies are inconclusive, why wouldn’t they? They have the organization of the CCP, the short form video format to keep viewers addicted, the data collection technology, the algorithms, and the objective of getting an edge over NATO countries long term.
As for Facebook and Website formerly known as Twitter, their platforms are designed for discussion instead of a video feed. It makes financial sense for them to push controversial content that promotes a reaction- users stay on the site longer and look at more ads. They definitely need to be prosecuted for allowing the 2016 (still ongoing?) Russian Election disinformation campaign so they could churn a profit.
The US should not be censoring harmless stuff like this.
Sure, they can make rules for federal employees and using it on their phones and stuff, but they should not for the average citizen.
I am in favor of big tech being regulated in regards to the data they can collect and transparency about the data they collect and what they do with it.
That is really what would solve the problem. Not banning an app.
That’s what’s happening now. They are being regulated.
They don’t want to follow the regulations, so they’re being kicked out. Regulated.
Like what? What laws have they broken? I believe there were the recent default privacy settings for kids which they fixed 3 years ago .
So what laws and regulations are being broken so consistently that tok needs to be banned.
www.google.com is a website.
I am not Google.
I’m not agreeing with the shittyreddit guy, but this is a toxic response. The onus is on the person stating a claim to provide proof and evidence of the claim, not to make a claim and then tell others to Google it.
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You’ve spent longer typing here than it would have taken on Google to get your answers.
Come on, dude. I’m still not agreeing with the other guy, but you know you’re being toxic. This isn’t cool.
I’m not claiming a new scientific technique here. I’m just referencing publicly known and available information. There’s a world of difference between them. I am not going to give APA citations for the presumption the sky is blue. Stop encouraging laziness. There’s a line between them, and you’re way into the territory of enabling.
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Holy fuck, you people just love to get fascist and authoritarian when you don’t like something.
