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It's pretty obvious that the #TikTok ban is for at least two reasons:

  • American corporations don't want to lose any of that lucrative user data.
  • The US government doesn't want to let the free flow of information out from under their thumb. They want to keep pumping us full of disinformation and propaganda via American social networks that they have some degree of control over.
#TikTok
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Neil E. Hodges
Neil E. Hodges
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If the #Fediverse were as popular as #TikTok, I'm sure the US government would also be after it. :/
#Fediverse #TikTok
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ewan
ewan
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difference is, i don’t think it can do much, right?
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SamXavia OLD
SamXavia OLD
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If they tried going after the fediverse it's not like they could ban all instances or something. The Fediverse is decentralised to stop issues like data collecting from big Tech
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Adam Hunt
Adam Hunt
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Nope, in fact it is because the Chinese government is using TikTok to gather user data to build profiles. They have a project to track every person in the world in real time, for their own nefarious purposes.

Neil E. Hodges doesn't like this.

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know
know
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now would be a critical time for lawmakers to start acknowledging privacy concerns and start enforcing protections for users against corporations.
but i dont even know if thats possible without crashing the data collection/resale industry.

if they cant give us privacy, cant provide competitive alternative, and cant provide proof for inspection... then why not just let these poor ass users gain immediate benefits from it(TT).

its not like the gov is going to swoop in with basic income, medicine, housing.. etc.

those are all things that the platform provides info or access to.

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Adam Hunt
Adam Hunt
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It at least makes sense for these companies to pay the user whose data they are stealing for the use of it!
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