Going Dark: TikTok Will Pull the Plug on US Access Sunday
170 million TikTok users in the United States may wake up Sunday morning with nothing but darkness w
Tick tock, Tik Tok
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Hopefully they will be mindful and demure.Oh great the influencers are going to be flooding the job market with resumes!
Truthfully I'm split on this. Half of me is all for freedom of speech, but the other half is f#%k the Chinese.
WingsOfGold
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I want it GONE, spyware and since it and google isn't allowed in red china
Agree, but it's really only being banned because it's Chinese, and no doubt laden with malicious code. There's nothing stopping anyone from creating a similar functioning app based in the US with vetted code. Then the free speech part is satisfied.
LightRoasted
If I may ...
For your consideration ...
We are spied upon, data siphoned, aggregated, and compiled, tracked everywhere we go, in and by huge "data centers" on a daily basis from every conceivable electronic device we have by those in our own government, and every large US corporation, and people worry about China. What? Our own govement can't be nefarious against its own people? You can bet that they are.
The Tictok fiasco is nothing but a red herring and a distraction.
We are spied upon, data siphoned, aggregated, and compiled, tracked everywhere we go, in and by huge "data centers" on a daily basis from every conceivable electronic device we have by those in our own government, and every large US corporation, and people worry about China. What? Our own govement can't be nefarious against its own people? You can bet that they are.
The Tictok fiasco is nothing but a red herring and a distraction.
22AcaciaAve
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Trump wanted this ban in his first term, now he is against it. I don't really think it matters. If you block tik-tok something else will take it's place. Musk with X or Zuckerberg with FB and Instagram will likely create their own platform to fill the void. I think FB already has it's own version of tik tok called Reels. All tik tok is basically is a platform to which one can upload video. You can do this on You Tube also. I don't know why so many people flocked to tik tok, maybe it's all fee content vs. paid on others. I don't use them so I don't know. But it seems like designing a replacement app that does the same thing as tik tok would be fairly easy. You probably only need start up money to do it. Something Musk and Zuckerberg have plenty of.
My problem with Tik Tok is this:
If there was an app that brainwashed people into joining Hamas by using propaganda disguised as entertainment, I think most of us would be against that. If Nation of Islam had a social media app seeded with charismatic attractive people coercing users to hate America and kill white people, we'd put a stop to it. We wouldn't call it "free speech", we'd recognize it as harmful to our country and to Americans in general.
Tik Tok is that propaganda app for Communist China.
I don't think I've ever even heard of anything positive on Tik Tok. It's all crazy Dembots screaming hate or porno chicks. Why does anyone need that?
I find Rand Paul's response hard to understand, if it's real. We forbid you from having sex with toddlers, so you gonna run out and do it just because you hate being told what to do? I reject that teenage rebellion mentality.
If there was an app that brainwashed people into joining Hamas by using propaganda disguised as entertainment, I think most of us would be against that. If Nation of Islam had a social media app seeded with charismatic attractive people coercing users to hate America and kill white people, we'd put a stop to it. We wouldn't call it "free speech", we'd recognize it as harmful to our country and to Americans in general.
Tik Tok is that propaganda app for Communist China.
I don't think I've ever even heard of anything positive on Tik Tok. It's all crazy Dembots screaming hate or porno chicks. Why does anyone need that?
I find Rand Paul's response hard to understand, if it's real. We forbid you from having sex with toddlers, so you gonna run out and do it just because you hate being told what to do? I reject that teenage rebellion mentality.
BOP
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Yeah, it's tots okay if AMERICAN companies like Google, Fakebook, et al do it. Which is what it comes down to.
Hijinx
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I hate to see this happening. It is a WWW, World Wide web, and if we start shutting down a website that million of people and Americans belong to, where does it stop. What will be shut down next. It was once thought that nothing could be stopped from the web, but certainly now we know better. What is next?
AFAIK - NOBODY here EVER said Chine was / are our friends ... in fact Trump has continually implied otherwise
China will NOT Allow TikTok in China, Chinese people use teh cute little Red Note App
and progressives have found out just how much FREE SPEECH there is in China
Chinese Communist Party Treatment Of Those Who Step Out Of Line
Clem72
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I was kind of ambivalent on the ban. I don't think it should be done because of what's hosted on the platform, I do think it represents a security risk. Ban the app from app-stores, let people run it from the website (which won't have elevated permissions to their phones operating system) or let them side-load it if they really and truly don't care about security.