Good luck America, our thoughts are with you.
Rest in peace Alex Pritti, a man executed by the ‘Gestapo’
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TikTok Faces Outage and Censorship Concerns Days After U.S. Ownership Deal Closes
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That problem was mainly caused by Apple and its closed app store. Most people in the US use iPhones. So a ban would have affected TikTok much more than in any other country. In Europe that would not be possible. Most people use Androis here and would still get the app after a ban.
JPack
macrumors P6
This is what happens when you let Oracle and a bunch of suits run a tech company.
Thankfully, everyone else globally can still access the real TikTok. But they can still login to the U.S. version for ***** and giggles.
Thankfully, everyone else globally can still access the real TikTok. But they can still login to the U.S. version for ***** and giggles.
Frantisekj
macrumors 65816
America really used to be the land of the free. And to think all the maga bots say that the UK and EU are censored... I guess tiktok US and Twitter are now right wong cesspit propaganda machines.
I urge everyone to read or reread 1984
I urge everyone to read or reread 1984
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And you will get called crazy.
The thread here is full of incongruences, “the once great Twitter”… let’s agree that it’s not great today, fine, but good god it wasn’t either before.
And I understand a lot of the complaints and potential overreach issues here, but at the same time, there’s the undertone about the inability to show support in favor of the public elimination of a political figure (that has been glossed over, conveniently).
I think here, or any social media place for that matter, shows a clear picture about how mad and upset everybody is.
Just sit back and enjoy the decline.
kiranmk2
macrumors 68020
TikTok is only as valuable as the number of users it has. I get the feeling that under Chinese ownership, the algorithm / recommendation slant was quite subtle (apart from Chinese-related topics, which very few US citizens are likely interested in anyway). I can easily see the new US owners heavy-handedness driving away a whole bunch of users, especially if they try to extract more revenue from it with even more ads. All it takes is for a new video/doom-scrolling app to go viral as complaints about TikTok outages or poorer recommendations increase and these companies and investment funs will have to write down the value of TikTok and explain to their shareholders and investors where the money went...
MacBH928
macrumors G3
well, the new owners are Oracle / Larry Elison , Dell Family Office/Michael Dell, Silverlake /EGON Durban-Mike Bingle/Ken Hao
member since 2001 🫡
CapitalIdea
macrumors 6502a
The one who is wholesale on board for wiping out a couple million people to help build a resort and calling it “national security” is a good example.
Bazza1
macrumors 65816
Time to look at the Fediverse - no one owner and no ads - and 'apps' like Loops.
Yep. A left wing political analyst I follow with 1.2m followers got a permanent ban
TikTok last week finalized a deal to hand over its U.S. operations to a majority American-owned venture, and things aren't exactly running smoothly for the new U.S. company so far.
Over the weekend, some U.S. TikTok users were unable to upload videos, which TikTok attributed to a power outage at a U.S. data center. TikTok users found they were unable to upload videos related to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Saturday shooting in Minneapolis, leading to concerns over censorship. Users saw their videos put into a review process, or experienced fewer than expected video views. Some users received messages that their posts related to the shooting had been flagged as "Ineligible for Recommendation," while others were temporarily suspended.
This evening, TikTok said that it is still working to resolve the infrastructure issue, which apparently caused a "cascading systems failure" leading to a long list of bugs. TikTok users may see slower load times, timed-out requests, and 0 views or likes on videos.
The ongoing outage and the accompanying censorship fears have caused some TikTok users to abandon the platform for UpScrolled, an alternative video sharing social platform. UpScrolled is currently the number eight free app in the U.S. App Store, but it was as high as number two earlier today.
Users have also expressed concerns about an updated TikTok privacy policy that suggests it collects "citizenship or immigration status" along with precise user location information, but the prior TikTok privacy policy also included that wording.
The new TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is 80.1 percent owned by U.S. and global investors, including Oracle, Silver Lake, and Abu Dhabi-based MGX. The three companies each own 15 percent as managing investors, and other U.S. stakeholders include the Dell Family Office and affiliates of Susquehanna International Group. TikTok parent company ByteDance continues to hold a 19.9 percent stake.
A seven-member majority-American board of directors is operating the U.S. version of TikTok, with Adam Presser, TikTok's former global head of operations serving as CEO.
Under the agreement, the venture handles U.S. data protection, content moderation, and algorithm security. TikTok's recommendation algorithm is being retrained and updated on U.S. user data, and it has been secured in Oracle's cloud environment.
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Article Link: TikTok Faces Outage and Censorship Concerns Days After U.S. Ownership Deal Closes
Xenomorph
macrumors 65816
The Projection part of the GOP shows up yet again.
The claim: TikTok is controlled by the Chines and will be used to spread propaganda, control information, and influence US citizens! The US must control it to prevent this!
The reality: TikTok is now controlled by a single US political group and is actively being used to spread propaganda, control information, and influence US citizens.
Who protects us from this when one radical group controls every branch of government?
The claim: TikTok is controlled by the Chines and will be used to spread propaganda, control information, and influence US citizens! The US must control it to prevent this!
The reality: TikTok is now controlled by a single US political group and is actively being used to spread propaganda, control information, and influence US citizens.
Who protects us from this when one radical group controls every branch of government?
definitive
macrumors 68020
Yes, I bet he doesn't have any idea what Larry Elison is, other than a billionaire and majority owner of Oracle. He has NO CLUE what so ever why ELISON has invested in Tik-Tok of all things. I've been warned not to insult people else they will delete me. As if being in the company of MAGA here holds such honor that I would miss if I were deleted. Press the button, if you're not going to call a spade a spade, I just assume be deleted.
ThomasJL
macrumors 68020
Exactly. Unlike the absolute garbage mainstream media in the U.S. like Fox News, CNN, New York Times, Washington Post, etc., which are all pro-Israel and constantly lie on Israel's behalf, TikTok is actually showing video footage of the barbaric feral savages of the Israeli "Defense" Forces (IDF) killing innocent Palestinian civilians, many of which show IDF terrorists portraying their killing and dehumanizing of innocent Palestinian civilians as humorous. And the vast majority of Israeli Jewish civilians are Nazis who support the Wehrmacht IDF's actions in Gaza.
Israel does not want the world to use TikTok and find out the truth about how mentally sick, twisted, inhumane, and sadistic both the IDF and the vast majority of Israeli Jewish civilians are by seeing their support of genocide on TikTok. That's why Israel considers TikTok a threat and wants it to be controlled by a pro-Israel American entity.
In the one-minute video below, Nazi Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that "the most important purchase that is going on right now" is TikTok:
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Mousse
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ThomasJL
macrumors 68020
The 10-minute video in the link below mentions how, beginning on the first day after the sale of TikTok to the American Zionist billionaire Larry Ellison, there was aggressive censorship if a video criticized ICE, Trump, Israel, and Epstein:
⚠️ Warning: NSFW / Strong Language / Political Content
Viewer discretion is advised.
⚠️ Warning: NSFW / Strong Language / Political Content
Viewer discretion is advised.
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