• Etterra@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Good riddance, vertical videos are cancer, short form obliterates attention spans, and their algorithm is engineered specifically to addict people, especially kids.

    Now to ban all the rest of them. Let’s start with Facebook. Twitter is already killing itself but could stand to be “helped” off the cliff.

    • nek0d3r@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      These bans are bad. All it takes is for the US to think the fediverse is a threat and this goes too. You clearly don’t like the platform and that’s okay, but don’t root for government censorship on the internet.

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        18 days ago

        Yeah, I’m all for Australia style banning to kids, however that gets implemented, but this is slippery slope and all that. But hey, maybe not, maybe it’s the only time they do it.

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          18 days ago

          Wouldn’t that be nice, if the powers that be didn’t grab for more power lol

      • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world
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        18 days ago

        The only reason this is bannable is that it is owned by china essentially; based on national security grounds. As long as the fediverse is never sold to an enemy nation, there’s nothing to worry about.

        • nek0d3r@lemmy.world
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          18 days ago

          The US has control of US tiktok servers. This is bannable because politicians want the power to control social media.

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            18 days ago

            Not true. That’s why the banning has a clause allowing for the sale of the US portion to a US (or other allied) company.

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                18 days ago

                There’s no national security basis to ban social media from the US or a friendly country. It would be protected by the first amendment otherwise. They have actual evidence that China was using TikTok as electronic warfare, which is the only reason they can ban it.

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                  18 days ago

                  I’m baffled by your blind faith in politicians. There’s been clear foreign influence on just about every major social media platform.

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                    18 days ago

                    It’s odd you seem to have more faith in China than in the US. Personally, while my trust in my country is low, it is infinitely higher than my trust in China.

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          17 days ago

          Sounds very much like you’re telling me that if I have nothing to hide, I have nothing to fear.

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      17 days ago

      As a video editor, let me tell you how much I hate that not only do people watch shitty vertical videos all the time, but I’ve had to learn how to edit the fucking things.

      I hate vertical video on a professional level.

      That’s not just a TikTok thing though.

    • Cowabunga_It_Is@lemmy.world
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      17 days ago

      vertical videos are cancer

      I generally agree with you, but I have to laugh at the fact that this is the first point you make about the danger of TikTok.

      their algorithm is engineered specifically to addict people, especially kids

      I’ve always wondered if 100 years from now people will look at kids using social media in a similar way to how we look at kids using tobacco products today.

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      17 days ago

      Why would America ban Facebook for being a “national security threat” to America lmao? Nothing about this had to do with protecting kids or the dangers of social media. Don’t act like it did.