Dude, the US based social media platforms are no better than TikTok. Its all rotten to the core. X is a great example of this.
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tardigrada@beehaw.org 2 weeks agoIt helps to think before you type.
The free market is free if and when you play by the same -democratic- rules. Look at Romania, just to name an actual example. Tiktok is much worse than Facebook and (most) others, and being worse is not an easy task here.
GiddyGap@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Except all the social media are doing the exact same thing. This is pointless political posturing
Steve@communick.news 2 weeks ago
Not quite. TikTok has been shown to tweak their algorithm against criticism of China.
Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Which is no different from any of the US social media companies tweaking their algorithms against criticism of all number of political things.
Twitter blatantly forced right wing radical propaganda down their entire user bases through a for months. Facebook was selling user data to foreign influence groups to assist with political message targeting. They’re all the same.
Steve@communick.news 2 weeks ago
Lots of people think the US social media platforms do that. But none of the scientific studies have been able to show it.
The US companies are all purely driven by engagement, to maximize profit. The most effective source of that engagement, changes from person to person. But it’s most commonly what you might call “Rage Bait”.Twiter’s recent bend toward the right, is primarily self selection of it’s users. As the left… left… the platform, the pool of available content shifted right; Causing even more to leave. Unless you have some paper I haven’t seen.
And Facebook selling data, is entirely different and unrelated. Nobody (no lawmakers) care about that.
finderscult@lemmy.myserv.one 2 weeks ago
Do you have a source that is not from a hostile intelligence agency?
Steve@communick.news 2 weeks ago
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
Tik Tok is not much worse than Facebook. The only reason is because Facebook cooperates with the US agencies, while they don’t get the information from Tik Tok. US does not like that citizen data is going to China instead being able to collect it themselves. From privacy standpoint of the end user, it does not matter who has the data; lost privacy is lost privacy.
tardigrada@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
I think Tiktok is much worse. It’s about a foreign country whose government is pursuing a dictatorial policy trying to interfere in foreign elections (again, look at Romania, for example).
The argument of FB collaborating with the US gov is true I guess, but isn’t valid here. China is doing the same, the Chinese government is banning the Western version of Tiktok, too, let alone all other non-Chinese apps. So the ‘free market’-argument doesn’t make any sense here, it’d be even hypocritical.
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
Because another countries takes away freedom and eliminates the free market, makes it a non argument if the US does the same? The US is doing the same what China does.
tardigrada@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
@thingsiplay
If so, why then haven’t you long been criticizing China the same way you do now the US? Where are these posts?
(Just to say that: The US, China, EU, and all the others can ban Tiktok, Twitter, FB, and all the centralized data collectors. I wouldn’t miss any of them, and I think it would be better for the world. But the hypocrisy here in this thread is very telling.)
Viri4thus@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
The irony of this post is over 9000
charonn0@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
From a national security standpoint of the government, it absolutely does matter who has the data.