Absent Knives it couldn't happen. i.e, it's Knives's fault.Absent Facebook, it couldn't happen. i.e, it's Facebook's fault.
A CCP app that collects your personal data is comparable to watching a free-to-air tv channel?
It reminds me of how the democrats went into a kind of hysteria about Russia "hacking the election" and other bezumny slovos, when all the evidence they found was a handful of minimum wage babushkas retweeting trump from a warehouse near Moscow, and some tenuous links from Trump to Putin.
In that case, this place has the ****tiest influencers ever.Hey, Brutus, this platform is social media too
Sure TW is social media but with layers of protection between users, assuming you're doing your job. It also lacks the sinister "friend request."
Hey, Brutus, this platform is social media too
I mean sure, I don’t use Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, etc. But I do use WhatsApp and that’s social media too. It’s not that black and white when it comes to its usefulness.
I wonder how many women have been kidnapped through someone they met on Facebook vs how many women suffered the same fate through a newspaper job ad..
Everything is worse if the Chinese do it. Would you rather be prosecuted in <western country> or in China? If you are a problem dog in the West you get an op-ed in the Atlantic. If you're a problem dog in the China, you are disappeared. Sure ideally you want no one to have a file on you, but one is still worse than the other.Is a chinese app collecting your data any worse than a westerner app collecting your data?
Bro, just eat fistful of mercury. There's pollutants in the air and water anyway.That was a poor example, but we live in an era where literally every company with access to the internet collects your data. It just strikes me as odd that whenever it's a company that has links to China people act like it's international espionage.
It reminds me of how the democrats went into a kind of hysteria about Russia "hacking the election" and other bezumny slovos, when all the evidence they found was a handful of minimum wage babushkas retweeting trump from a warehouse near Moscow, and some tenuous links from Trump to Putin.
I get that there is a cyberwarfare threat between the governments of China and America but they sure as hell aren't going to do that through tiktok.
Except my dear leaders can obtain the collected data about me from <western country> much easier than from China. I'd rather be prosecuted by China because it will have of zero consequence to my life, contrary to the unlubed ass****ing I can get with the help of our westerner friends. Or were you sarcastic? Upon a second read I think you were.Everything is worse if the Chinese do it. Would you rather be prosecuted in <western country> or in China? If you are a problem dog in the West you get an op-ed in the Atlantic. If you're a problem dog in the China, you are disappeared. Sure ideally you want no one to have a file on you, but one is still worse than the other.
Except my dear leaders can obtain the collected data about me from <western country> much easier than from China. I'd rather be prosecuted by China because it will have of zero consequence to my life
Bro, just eat fistful of mercury. There's pollutants in the air and water anyway.
They're not going to turn off the grid through TikTok, but I still see no reason to volunteer any info about me to them. Better safe than sorry.
It's still a future possibility, compared to the current 100% chance of gulag if I slip up on Facebook. I'd take a possible chinese death squad in the future anytime over a letter from a state attorney in the present.That statement assumes that China will never be able to convince your country to deport you to China to get prosecuted and imprisoned, a process which could take no more than a couple of days from start to finish if their government wanted it to. All it takes is for your country to feel it is in its best interests to comply with Chinese demands, and you would be in trouble. Given that China is an economic powerhouse which is investing hugely in renewable industries and technology, it is not hard to imagine that they will one day have control of things that our little western countries need.
I must confess, I don't know much about it. It's something where you post videos of yourself to show yourself as a better person than you actually are, no?Brombem, you stubborn goat, nobody uses TikTok to hang out with Chinese people. I'm starting to think you don't even know what the app is. It is owned by "a Chinese company" (=Chinese government, really), but it's not some Patrice Lumumba's Friendship Between Nations App.
I think it's naive to think Russian intelligence is not also involved and doesn't have disinformation strategies on social media.It reminds me of how the democrats went into a kind of hysteria about Russia "hacking the election" and other bezumny slovos, when all the evidence they found was a handful of minimum wage babushkas retweeting trump from a warehouse near Moscow, and some tenuous links from Trump to Putin.
I think it's naive to think Russian intelligence is not also involved and doesn't have disinformation strategies on social media.
How much it actually matters is debateable (I doubt it had any significant impact on the election, but it's hard to tell).