Cool, another app I won’t download and will look sideways at whoever does.
If I see its userbase consists of gen z and younger I will be very disappointed.
I’m sorry but you’re 100% going to be disappointed
You’re right, I should set my expectations now.
If I find out Lemmy.world has a mouse favicon I’m going to be disappointed
He is really so dumb
Wasn’t the whole thing about China scooping up loads of data?
So give a copy of that data to one of the worlds largest advertiser/online markets and license behavioural data from the “baddies”. Yeah, that’ll fix everything.
Everybody loses.
Wasn’t the whole thing about China scooping up loads of data?
No
If not user data and network security concerns, what? Why the ban/sale song and dance?
Political points.
Also money, which are just political points in tangible/fungible format
Control over what messages can be removed?
It’s about content delivery, i.e. the CCP having direct control over what content (i.e. propaganda) is sent to Americans on the platform via their proprietary algorithm (with all the source code heavily guarded in mainland China).
Controlling people’s media experience to push political propaganda that helps powerful people and harms individuals - that seems really shitty.
I can’t think of any app developer or political party who would do that.
(This is an attempt at surrealist humor.)
Both can be bad.
They’ve admitted it was about gaza
It was about the weaponization of the algorithm whereby China could incite Americans to act against the nation in a time of crisis or war.
TikTok’s valuation remains contested, with estimates varying from US$20 billion ($31.8 billion) to more than US$300 billion, depending on whether its algorithm is factored in.
The algorithm increases the price by more than $280 billion. And what kind of algorithm? One that changes its high based on how you interact with it, to always try and get your dopamine flowing to keep you interacting longer. If it were a real substance, it would be the most addictive drug to ever exist.
You could argue if xai paid xitter 45 billion in their latest
money laundering operationacquisition, then TikTok is worth at least ten xitters
Surely US investors won’t harvest data and/or enshittify the product!
Why the fuck does this dude care so much about one social media platform being available here? Is he perving on dancing teenagers?
Because it’s been an incredibly successful propoganda vector for the youth vote.
Huh. Is that good or bad?
I don’t pay attention to TikTok. I’m not on there.
Very obviously bad. You want educated voters, not propagandized ones.
Bad, it’s why so many of them are magattes.
tiktok is used by genz and alpha alot, it helps that they would be the next generation of a dying GOP voters which are primarily boomers, Xers, and some milleneals.
Oh thank God, I thought the economy was about to collapse or something.
Honestly, I don’t who would be the better owner of Tik Tok at this point…
so basically taxpayers will be paying china for an app that only 2% of the country uses
lmao
