• turmacar@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      TikTok is shady in how much info it collects and how tailored the feeds it shows people get.

      It is not unique about either of those.

      Facebook/Google/et. al. being on this coast instead of that coast doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have exactly the same scrutiny. Literally the only evidence offered that TikTok was in any way special was “we can’t tell you but there’s classified info that means we should ban it.” Which is less than encouraging that the ban is for anything other than because of ‘those dang kids’ being annoying.

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        4 days ago

        TikTok

        Is Run

        By Dictatorship Military

        It’s a weapon that wants to cause permanent irreversible harm to hundreds of millions of people, by design.

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          3 days ago

          Agreed.

          They’re also not materially different from Instagram or Youtube. Singling them out as “the problem” is short-sighted at best.