I’m pretty sure most people who are doing this are trying, in their own way, to make a point.
It wasn’t about “national security”. It was about a large digital meeting place where ideas could be shared, or feelings and frustrations at their government could be seen and felt by others who felt the same. Big Brother doesn’t like that, unless it is on US Corporate Approved Social Media, where they can promptly shut you down, or get their algorithm to put post with specific keywords out of the eyes of as many as possible.
So, instead of creating actual data privacy laws, as they should have, they decided to attack TikTok, because Mark Zuckerburg got in front of congress during whatever case it was that brought his lizard ass in the room (maybe the Cambridge Analytica scandal?) and said that TikTok was more dangerous than his own platform.
There you go. It was never about “national security”, as there were much better ways to handle that than banning one single app.
superkret@feddit.org 4 days ago
People are disgusted by the idea that one random person could track their every move and read everything they write.
Unless that person is employed at a large corporation.
I used to date a Google employee. They had a Signal chat where they shared screenshots of funny or interesting shit they saw on the user accounts.
tourist@lemmy.world 4 days ago
oh fuck
That’s horrific. I hope your relationship ended amicably?
superkret@feddit.org 4 days ago
Not really, she caught me Binging someone else.
tourist@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I forgot which community this was lmao
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Gottum.
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Its actually worse than that.
I’ve recently met an increasing number of Gen Alpha / Zoomers that all have each other in some kind of family location tracking app, so they all know each other’s locations at all times, and actually you’re a rude asshole if you think that’s weird
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
They also think you’re rude if you don’t have an iPhone. What a weird generation.
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Man, I’m so used to that it didn’t even occur to me.
Now, I realize the following is extreme, but I did actually experience this a year ago:
The last Gen A that made fun of me for not using an iPhone actually just began literally screeching when I attemped to explain why I use an android.
Just stared me down and eeeeEEEEeEEE! for 20 seconds until my ears were ringing.
In the previous sentence, she was talking about how she doesn’t conform to standard societal gender norms and is a rebel against capitalism… then questioned why I don’t use an iPhone.
When she was done literally screeching, she then started bragging about their Temu fast fashion addiction, and then said I don’t use an iPhone because I’m broke.
So… thats a whole lot of hypocrisy in 60 seconds.
And then later that evening, she proceeded to get into a physical punching and scratching match with her on again off again girlfriend, which I had to break up when one of them grabbed a fucking knife.
… Physically abusive lesbian relationship, how very rebellious, non stereotypical and progressive.
Oh, did I mention she had made me promise, multiple times, to cover for her and lie to her boyfriend and convince him that she had left her girlfriend and wasn’t cheating on him?