All social media should be 18+ FULL STOP, just like porn sites
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TikTok Still On Track for January Ban as Appeals Court Upholds Ruling
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Free market means free market. This is a slippery slope showing what the next 4 to 20 years are going to be like. History repeats itself and we are almost on track to repeat Germanys mistakes….
I have no idea why former apps like Vine haven't resurfaced under these conditions. Especially since Musk owns Vine. It's not like a supervillain to pass at making more money so he can take over the world.
I work in marketing, specifically creating vertical videos, and more specifically I mostly create for TikTok, though we have much larger Facebook and IG departments.
The amount of targeting and tracking we have access to on the Meta platforms is insane, meanwhile, we gain almost no data from TT at all.
Might just be me, but I expect that any app I’m using is going to glean any info from me as I’m using it, so I can always choose to not use something like TikTok. But Google and Meta go FAR beyond what happens in their apps and track everything you’re doing everywhere and it’s pretty hard to escape them.
I definitely think this whole ban is in the best interests of the other social media platforms and now Amazon as well, as TikTok Shop is quickly becoming a threat to Amazon.
It’s scary for me and my job and I’m sure it’s scary for a lot of small businesses who have recently found more success on TikTok Shop than Amazon. Just like Amazon now, TT Shop is overloaded with drop-shipped Chinese brands with fake sounding names, but there are also plenty of real small businesses finding success getting their product out there directly via TikTok. For instance, I just bought my cat a giant exercise wheel made by a small company in California called One Fast Cat. For companies like them, TikTok is one of the only marketplaces outside of Amazon available and I’m sure they’re happy to diversify to finally rely just a little less on the whims of Amazon.
The amount of targeting and tracking we have access to on the Meta platforms is insane, meanwhile, we gain almost no data from TT at all.
Might just be me, but I expect that any app I’m using is going to glean any info from me as I’m using it, so I can always choose to not use something like TikTok. But Google and Meta go FAR beyond what happens in their apps and track everything you’re doing everywhere and it’s pretty hard to escape them.
I definitely think this whole ban is in the best interests of the other social media platforms and now Amazon as well, as TikTok Shop is quickly becoming a threat to Amazon.
It’s scary for me and my job and I’m sure it’s scary for a lot of small businesses who have recently found more success on TikTok Shop than Amazon. Just like Amazon now, TT Shop is overloaded with drop-shipped Chinese brands with fake sounding names, but there are also plenty of real small businesses finding success getting their product out there directly via TikTok. For instance, I just bought my cat a giant exercise wheel made by a small company in California called One Fast Cat. For companies like them, TikTok is one of the only marketplaces outside of Amazon available and I’m sure they’re happy to diversify to finally rely just a little less on the whims of Amazon.
That’s why people should be licensed to breed. So many people have no right raising kids.
I assume you weren’t serious and that was just hyperbole but that is still a very disturbing dystopian statement
If “the current political trend” is opposite to the totalitarian control and punishment of dissenters that occurred in the prior political trend, then we are definitely headed in the correct direction.
I don’t want to guess how old you are but people livestreamed events long before Tik Tok existed. Facebook live, Twitter, Periscope, YouTube live all did this before Tik Tok. The Arab Spring for example was live-streamed on Facebook live at the time.
The biggest brainwash of all on Tik Tok is people being made to think they need Tik Tok. It made itself indispensable, or at least appeared to be.
The close second biggest brainwash is people relying on Tik Tok for news which is at the core of the danger that this app represents. Its algorithm is controlled by the west’s biggest adversary and people turn to it for information. How people completely miss how dangerous this is is stupefying.
But let Meta do whatever the F they want because they will censor for agendas and pay those political contributions
For all its flaws Tiktok is an uncensored news source reported by real people doing the journalism our media refuses to do. Our political engine only wants media they can control and spew out propaganda
Nope, they are ALL censored propaganda. TikTok, twitter, facebook are all basically the same
It is just a question of whose propaganda
but social media isnt free speech.
it's a PUBLISHING tool.
and publishing needs to meet stricter guidelines of what is acceptable to say.
"free speech" doesnt override defamation. or hate laws. or anti-discrimination laws.
we get angry posters in Australia who dont even know we have no free speech in our Constitution.
whatever you say online can come back to haunt you.
there are consequences that might be unpleasant for you.
and you dont have to use these tools. it's not essential to life.
anonymous cyber bullying is a huge issue and costing lives. something needs to be done.
there are posters on here who have been stalked by other posters who disagree with them.
like looking up their home addresses. and gloating about it. that's the reality we live in today.
the parallels to 1930s Germany are obvious.
watch any documentary on the rise of Nazi Germany and you will see exactly the same social issues: hate on groups, a swing to the right, blame immigrants, nationalism/protectionism. cost of living.
you watch and go "how did they let that happen?" and all the while the same thing repeats now.
do you have any copies of the posts removed?If “the current political trend” is opposite to the totalitarian control and punishment of dissenters that occurred in the prior political trend, then we are definitely headed in the correct direction.
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it could easily have been offensive or criminal posts.
unless you can provide them we will never know it is for good or bad reasons...
Yes, it is a publishing tool. But here in the US we have a right to anonymity when making public statements. In other words, the government is not allowed to demand that you give up your identity when making statements protected by the first amendment.
correct me if i'm wrong but wouldn't you need to give them permission to access that data?
Apple is one company, and the government would dictate which verification method and metric to use. Take Digital IDs for example. I would love to have the ability to use Apple’s implementation, but alas, I live in Florida and they keep giving digital ID responsibility to **** companies with **** apps. And while I sort of agree privacy is much like TSA security, an illusion, that doesn’t mean we have to willingly give it up.
Social media, crack, sugar, exercise, reading, tv, movies, rollercoasters… let’s make a list of all the things that can cause “hits of dopamine” and use them in a straw man argument, shall we.
The point I made, poorly, wasn’t that porn sites check IDs (they dont) but that checking ids for the purposes of speech is problematic. Apple Fan made my point much clearer than I did.
I’m gonna leave this here.
Anybody who would install Facebook, which has similar personal data privacy policies.