Every social media app has a tiktok equivalent now. My hope is that we get a private one similar to bluesky
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TikTok Ban Looking Likely After U.S. Supreme Court Hears Case
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Users can get around the TikTok app ban by using the TikTok website (https://www.tiktok.com/).
They're not equivalent, though. They may appear to be on the surface, but TikTok's algo stands out.
The others don't run completely different algorithms in China that prioritize educational and pro-society content with heavy censorship of 'bad' content.
If app is banned, I stressed this many times, China will retaliate most likely by banning Apple products from being made, or be used in the country. Or in fact from any American company.
It’s about to become a total trade war from looks of it.
no one is going to do that. there needs to be an alternative (there are mulitple). Hopefully not one owned by Meta or Google.
I'm not an America first guy but that would go very poorly for an already struggling Chinese economy.
I really don't understand why people are singling out the bad content on TikTok, meanwhile, the same crap is on YT Shorts and Instagram reels.
The Chinese government doesn't have unlimited access to YouTube or Instagram's data.
But Meta and X collect similar data and will sell it to anyone including China, Russia, North Korea, Iraq, etc..
China already bans US-owned social media like Facebook and YouTube, so I don't see any difference with the US banning a Chinese-owned social media platform.
Yes.
I hope this snowballs and most of them get banned or heavily regulated.
I don't see it happening because this is more anti-china sentiment rather than an understanding or willingness to consider what all of the big platforms are doing to us.
And with all the chaos and anger they generate, I have to assume Elon Trump will go of his way to stop bans and regulations. I can even see him saving TikTok, unless Twitter is launching its own attention retention slot machine and wants to kill its competitors.
This is a poor argument. Obviously that should be prevented as well.
This is part of what Zuckerberg bought with adding the actively anti-LGBTQ language to the approved-behaviors in its Meta-platforms user policies.
I agree. TikTok was a Trojan Horse from the get go and there is no easy way out now.
The TikTok ban is the result of legislation that was created and passed by Congress and signed into law by the President (Biden). A President does not have the power to stop the law from going into effect or override it. It would require action from Congress to repeal it.
China doesn't have a first amendment. They ban whatever they want to.
That is very slippery slope. What else is going to be considered a threat to national security? Unpopular dissenting opinion? Protests? Once the door is opened it is very difficult to close.
And why would Trump bother doing this? Congress voted heavily for this (across the aisle) - 352 for, 65 against
The US doesn't have a first amendment for foreign corporations.
Yeah, and ByteDance is a foreign entity which the first amendment doesn't apply to. Just to be clear, the law's not banning TikTok, it's banning ByteDance's ownership of TikTok.
To me this seems like major Govt overreach. People opt in to use services like TikTok and if they are ok with what TikTok gathers from them from an information standpoint then it shouldn't be the Govt's job to be the people's Nanny and tell them what they can and can't use. This also seems more for the benefit of Facebook and other companies because they are eliminating their number 1 competitor.
But x and meta sale of their equivalent to TikTok data is not regulated in any way at all.
The answer to ban the collection.