• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    3 hours ago

    Political interference, that’s what people need to fear from the platform. I’m sure if it was Russian I wouldn’t have to say it.

    Hell, just look at the number of pro TikTok memes being shared right now, there’s something fishy happening.

      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        3 hours ago

        Trump went from wanting it banned to not wanting it banned because it was working in his favor this time, which is… Political interference!

        Crazy how hypocritical people are… X should be banned because Musk can interfere in politics with his algorithms, but TikTok doing the same thing on behalf of the Chinese government? No problem!

        • jaybone@lemmy.world
          1·
          3 hours ago

          His stacked ass SCOTUS all agreed on this. But let me get out my crystal ball… I predict they will change their minds too. Hmm

  • rarbg@lemmy.zipEnglish
    141·
    6 hours ago

    US government couldn’t give two shits if TikTok steals your data. They just don’t want a foreign adversary to.

  • 𝔼𝕩𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕒@lemmy.world
    41·
    6 hours ago

    Haha NO!? We’re gonna ban it, and whatever platforms you move to, in a game of whackamole until you pick the “right one”

    Good luck everybodyyyyyy (starts swinging mallet)

  • Shortstack@reddthat.com
    1212·
    7 hours ago

    We can’t afford bread and they’re trying to ban the circus

    This was the obvious progression

    The real kick in the nuts is that we get to see that the average Chinese can afford groceries and has disposable income for entertainment, and just in general doesn’t have the insane monetary burdens we have here.

    • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      10·
      6 hours ago

      Are you high or sth? The chinese are getting as much extorted as you do, the system of it just differs. Chona got a huge homelessness problem they try to hide from their own people (because officially homelessness was “eradicated” years ago according to propaganda). The worker extortion is brutal and child labour a big problem as well. However, you won’t see anything outspokenly crticial about those systemic problems im China on RedNote or sth., their deletion and suppression algorithms are extremely well tuned. Also they got stuff like neighborhood watch and other means of systemic social suppression who’ll be alerted of “problematic people” if you post (too much) criticism. Or of course police, in case you really annoy them or happen to be the wrong ethnicity.