It’s so funny because when the social media’s companies were spying on kids in the early 00’s nobody lifted a finger and now since Congress can’t control kids because they all left the shitty American Conservative spy network of Facebook, Google, and Snap they gotta shut down the Chinese spy network so they can add it to their conservative spy network.
American tech companies suck dick and eat shit. Non-compete agreements have been the cause but now lets see some shit come out that circumvents the shitbag spy network.
As of June 2022, 100% of all U.S. user traffic is routed to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in the United States, and today all access to that environment is managed exclusively by TikTok U.S. Data Security. We have begun the process of irretrievably deleting historic protected user data in our own Virginia and Singapore data centers; once that process is complete, it will effectively end all access to protected U.S. user data outside of TikTok USDS except under limited circumstances stipulated in our proposed national security agreement.
Guess that wasn’t enough…
They control the user data, but not the algorithm and the moneys…
They are angry teens are getting radicalised by leftist anti-imperialist content, and they are jealous the new biggest thing is not owned by an American oligarch.
It isn’t even necessarily “leftist” content, it’s just access to the lives of other gen Z in other parts of the world without boomer media spin.
I’m only on a nonpolitical part of tiktok but you still see stuff like people’s cats in Gaza if you follow cat videos, and so on.
I used to think there wasn’t a conspiracy until I visited the states and heard a neoliberal loudly ranting to themselves about how they’re “not able control people through the media anymore because everyone’s on the internet” There it was, straight out of the horse’s asshole.
If they themselves believe in the conspiracy than why the hell shouldn’t I?
The ADL will be delighted. Now they just need to imprison all student protestors and the US can go back to sleep
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More gov’t censorship and control over social media…
Good, maybe it’ll drive people away from social media. Trumpism? 100% caused by social media. Anti-vaccine movement and COVID Denial? 100% social media driven.
Social media has killed more people in the last decade than anything else. Facebook and TikTok will be the downfall of our civilization as we know it.Lmao people still on that russiagate shit. No, memes did not make Trump a thing. America was already a really racist country, and they put that up against an infamous neoliberal hag. Of fucking course you guys were going to vote him in. Who outside astroturf wanted to vote Hillary?
Ohh shut down lemmy shit next! It’s so comical to see lemmy and reditus bitching any social media and clapping for this.
If you’re in support of this shit you should be applauding us universities right now.
Yeah driven by the social media that competes with TikTok. Now all that is going to be available to Americans will be the platforms that bias right wing content.
Trumpism? 100% caused by social media.
Trump is the result of the Death of the Liberal Class. Chris Hedges: The Politics of Cultural Despair
- IT Pro: Cambridge Analytica models were exaggerated and ineffective, [UK Information Commissioner’s Office] claims
- Wall Street Journal: Mueller Doesn’t Find Trump Campaign Conspired With Russia
- Jacobin: Democrats and Mainstream Media Were the Real Kremlin Assets
- Washington Post: FEC fines DNC, Clinton for violating rules in funding Steele dossier
- Washington Post: Russian trolls on Twitter had little influence on 2016 voters
- Jacobin: It Turns Out Hillary Clinton, Not Russian Bots, Lost the 2016 Election
- Matt Taibbi: Move Over, Jayson Blair: Meet Hamilton 68, the New King of Media Fraud The Twitter Files reveal that one of the most common news sources of the Trump era was a scam, making ordinary American political conversations look like Russian spywork
- Jacobin: Why the Twitter Files Are in Fact a Big Deal On the Left, there’s been a temptation to dismiss the revelations about Twitter’s internal censorship system that have emerged from the so-called Twitter Files project. But that would be a mistake: the news is important and the details are alarming.
- MSNBC Repeats Hamilton 68 Lies 279 Times in 11 Minutes
- Jeff Gerth at Columbia Journalism Review on Russiagate: Editor’s Note | Part one | Part two | Part three | Part four
- Matt Taibbi: WMD, Part II: CIA “Cooked The Intelligence” To Hide That Russia Favored Clinton, Not Trump In 2016
- Chris Hedges: Why Russiagate Won’t Go Away
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TikTok is not normal social media.
Yes it is. It’s the same exact shit. Stop making excuses.
No it’s not. Stop making excuses.
Same shit. Just not your flavor of shit.
Imma ban anything I don’t agree with mentality.
Isn’t that exactly what the fed you’re on does? Whole lot of witchhunting communists, screaming about defedding this, that, and the third, and all in all, running a nazi bar McCarthy could be proud of? Methinks you don’t apply your own ‘principles’ consistently.
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Yes it is. Stop being authoritarian.
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Looks like VPN companies are about to see alot of new users soon
And those people could fall foul of a new EO issued, that if becomes law will carry some heavy penalties
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=4c6f5729-81ec-43e6-9a85-6dbd8c085222
It’s entirely unclear how this eo impacts VPN users or even sellers short of the ones you shouldn’t even bother using anyway.
Also worth pointing out, as one youtube thumbnail put it “VPN companies aren’t going to go to jail for you over 10$”
Not sure those are really interested in video streaming customers. Those take a lot of bandwidth.
Only if they don’t sell.
There’s zero chance they’re gonna sell.
The best part about capitalism is that it loves a level playing field and when people can’t provide a superior product the government steps in and bans the competition
Behold, the great reverse firewall of china
remember what they took from youSo stupid.
I like how they’re still referring to it as some ban as if Meta, Google, and Amazon aren’t about to fight with fistfulls of money over who gets to own it.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Senate late Tuesday passed a broad legislative package that delivers $95 billion in foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies.
The bill also includes a provision that could lead to a ban on TikTok in the U.S. if the popular platform’s Chinese owner doesn’t sell its stake within a year.
That has raised concerns among lawmakers and security experts that the Chinese government could tap TikTok’s trove of personal data about millions of U.S. users.
Meanwhile, TikTok had asked its users to contact their lawmakers to argue against the bill’s passage, an effort that failed to sway opinions in Washington, D.C., noted Eurasia Group director Clayton Allen.
“I will sign this bill into law and address the American people as soon as it reaches my desk tomorrow so we can begin sending weapons and equipment to Ukraine this week,” Mr. Biden said.
However, Ives thinks ByteDance would be unlikely to sell TikTok with its core algorithms, the vital software that provides video recommendations to users based on their interests and viewing habits.
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Well, if it leaves the US I will miss Anthony Hopkins and also the videos Martin Scorsese’s daughter makes of her dad.
If it happens nothing of value will be lost. I say if because ByteDance has almost certainly already created a western shell company backed by Chinese billionaires to buy TikTok and keep it running.
