Tiktok takes users from facebook

They learned how well they can spy on people using data of US companies.

They cant allow China to have the same kind of data.



Its what we do best, lecture adversaries for doing the same shite we do.

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China sucks arse but this move is a political and $$$ move. They know they are losing control with how cable cutters got off tv programming and now users leaving their social media for another.

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Getting rid of tiktok does not give the government or politicians more control in the social media arena. That ship has sailed. Tiktok is trash. The other social media apps are too, but for different reasons.

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Getting rid of tiktok does not give the government or politicians more control in the social media arena.

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Wrong. Tiktok is doing very well and was asked and inquired about their profits today during the hearing , many times.

Is Facebook doing the bidding of the Taiwanese and Indian governments too? They've both banned the app in their country. Perhaps there is more to this than you realize.

Yeah, it basically boils down to who you would prefer spying on your kids.

I guess it's telling that it's probably a tough choice for a lot of people.

There is definitely some frickery afoot. This guy is doing a good job sorting through it.

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Michael Tracey
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Of course it's not only China that would be designated a "foreign adversary" whose "holdings" are subject to censorship. And it's not only TikTok that could be banned under this authority. It's a sweeping new array of ill-defined "national security" powers handed to the Executive

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Michael Tracey
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Here's the bill that has the most momentum and is likely to pass the Senate. It would vest the president with unilateral power to make an incredibly vague determination that some entity poses a "national security" risk, and then just let him take whatever punitive action he wants

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Michael Tracey
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If you're demanding Joe Biden be granted the power to unilaterally ban TikTok -- prohibiting all Americans from using a particular social media app -- you're demanding one of the most brazen acts of state censorship ever, and chanting "CCP" over and over again won't change that

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How does SnapChat play into all this? I see my kids on SnapChat a lot more than tictok.

Yeah, there is no way gen Z is moving on to Facebook if tictok is banned. I could see a slight surge to Instagram (which is Meta) though.

Snap you can send whatever you want. I don’t know their technology details. My teenage son used to go tiktok live to stream his Xbox. He’d get banned all the time because they knew he was a minor. I give tiktok kudos there. He was making like $50/week, but they’d always suspended the account before he could cash out lol. But just his voice or whatever he would always get suspended. Most of the content on his tiktok was all peer related to what his interests were. I’d say I have more faith in tiktok than snap because he’s had drama on there. I think tiktok is a lot less controversial because you pretty much are recording yourself to a live platform. Snap is specific but could be captured by even friends to fk one over.