Smoking is bad, we ban it. Fuck you I’ll do meth!
Might be hyperbole, bit this is some dumb stuff and really to me does just how addicted and short sighted people are. I didn’t give a shit why they’re banning TicTok, instead of taking this opportunity to free oneself from an addiction, you just going all in for the childish “fuck you, you can’t tell me what to do”.
Are users for this other app, beholden to China’s social credit score system, because of so, I’m getting some popcorn…
They don’t mind that it’s ruining people’s brains. They just don’t like that it’s sending data back to the CCP, giving them direct access to a really huge number of American’s phones to do whatever they like, and giving them an uncomfortably free hand in guiding the perception of reality experienced by millions. But the harm it does to people on a personal level is as unimportant to the US government as it is to China’s.
Nooo… you’re supposed to be giving your salable data to US firms!
IIRC Lemon8 at least will have to stop just like TikTok. It isn’t TikTok specifically that is being banned. Rednote likely is affected as well.
They’re jumping ship to other sinking ships because the media has been providing incorrect information about what’s happening, as per usual now.
I would never sign up for this or install the app, but it is a good way to broach the topic of privacy laws.
Im just gonna say that Bytedance reluctance to sell their brainrot inducing app tells me everything about their intentions. They could sell it for stock and still benefit from its growth. But they won’t do it, I wonder why?
Fuck the CCP.
This is from my former coworker who’s father was approached as an investor for Bytedance, so grain of salt.
But apparently the current CEO of Bytedance, Shou Zi Chew, interned at Meta and offered Zuckerberg a chance to invest into Bytedance in 2013 when he was gathering investors (assuming they’d be the American arm of the multinational). Zuck refused, saying that he didn’t think short form video is going to go anywhere, and basically laughed Zi Chew out of the room.
Fast forward to 2024, and Meta is spending the most money lobbying to get Tiktok to sell to a US company, with Meta trying to argue that they have the best infrastructure to “manage the technology” and data from Tiktok, Capcut, Lemon8, etc.
If all of this is true, I would also say “Fuck You” to Mark Cuckerberg and shut down the servers too. I mean, why the hell else am I on Lemmy if not for a CEO saying I can’t have my app?
edit: Oh how did I forget, Zuck was trying to buy Musical.ly in 2016, learned Mandarin, went to China to kiss CPC ass, and still got blocked on the buy by Bytedance.. It’s 100% personal for everyone involved here.
I hate to defend Zuckerberg but if true he turned down investing and claimed short form wasn’t going anywhere it’s because he had some proof of that. Vine wasn’t doing well and eventually shut down, as did WWE backed short form video app Tout. At the time it looked like it wasn’t worth it.
Even if this were true they could still sell to anyone else. I’m still not convinced that the CCP doesn’t sees TikTok being more valuable as a cultural weapon than as a simple social media. Hell getting it banned is probably as good in their eyes as it staying because it creates more tension between citizens and the government and they’re all about creating instability.
