Tik Tok

[ousdahl]

[ousdahl]

Blinken and Mittens saying the quiet part out loud

https://youtube.com/shorts/_UxB7tDDehU? ... KrYlo3qdub

[Shirley]

Blinken and Mittens saying the quiet part out loud

https://youtube.com/shorts/_UxB7tDDehU? ... KrYlo3qdub

Help me out, because I don't get your point.

[ousdahl]

Social media - particularly social media algorithms not controlled by western interests - apparently makes it difficult to control the imperial narratives.

…perhaps?

[TDub]

it hasn't had an issue influencing your narrative

[Shirley]

Social media - particularly social media algorithms not controlled by western interests - apparently makes it difficult to control the imperial narratives.

…perhaps?

Are you aware of the relationship between the CCP and Tik Tok owner ByteDance? Many American security experts consider TikTok to be a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) controlled app that acts as a data-harvesting weapon disguised as a social media platform. It's why many in the US think Tik Tok should not be allowed to use their "algorithms" to distribute content to Americans on social media.

Here's a list of all the American-owned media co.s that operate in China with the same access that Tik Tok has to the American social media market:

_______
_______
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Twitter? No.
Google? No.
Meta? No.

Even right after Hamas killed 1200 Israelis last Oct. 7th the ratio of pro-Palestinian/Hamas videos on Tik Tok to pro-Israeli videos was something like 50 to 1. Was that an accident?

This video is a year and a half old, (if I had the time I'd find a newer one), but it captures much of what is so concerning:

TikTok Is A Chinese PsyOp, Not Social Media

[KUTradition]

let’s not forget, q has been (at the very least) open to the idea that a world order led by china would be better than the current one led by the U.S.

[ousdahl]

Yes, forgive me for being open minded. You say it like it’s a bad thing!

All social media apps are data-harvesting weapons in disguise. Again, it seems lawmakers could nip this in the bud by simply enacting consumer protection and privacy laws.

Rather than forcing a foreign company to divest, which, among other things, coincides with windfall market gains for American companies like Meta and Alphabet

[Shirley]

Yes, forgive me for being open minded. You say it like it’s a bad thing!

All social media apps are data-harvesting weapons in disguise. Again, it seems lawmakers could nip this in the bud by simply enacting consumer protection and privacy laws.

Rather than forcing a foreign company to divest, which, among other things, coincides with windfall market gains for American companies like Meta and Alphabet

Interesting that you are more concerned about that, than the fact that China very strictly controls what its population is exposed to, and has a history of allowing American companies access to its market just long enough to steal their intellectual property and then bans them.

Your hate and blame America first shit no matter the issue or topic gets really, really old.

[ousdahl]

I didn’t say blame America first.

Like, holy shit. Who woulda thought consumer protections would be so controversial!

But there’s such an irony here! I posted a vid of U.S. officials fussing about how a Chinese product makes it more difficult to control what our population is exposed to.

And as for stealing intellectual property, where do you think Alphabet got the idea for YouTube shorts? Or meta got the idea for instagram reels?

When it comes to imperialism, there’s a whole lotta “every accusation is a confession,” it seems

[Shirley]

I didn’t say blame America first.

Like, holy shit. Who woulda thought consumer protections would be so controversial!

But there’s such an irony here! I posted a vid of U.S. officials fussing about how a Chinese product makes it more difficult to control what our population is exposed to.

And as for stealing intellectual property, where do you think Alphabet got the idea for YouTube shorts? Or meta got the idea for instagram reels?

When it comes to imperialism, there’s a whole lotta “every accusation is a confession,” it seems

smh. That you don't appreciate the difference between stealing intellectual property and copying a video format is totally on point.

[Sparko]

Ous is very much influenced by troll farms.

[jfish26]

Yes, forgive me for being open minded. You say it like it’s a bad thing!

All social media apps are data-harvesting weapons in disguise. Again, it seems lawmakers could nip this in the bud by simply enacting consumer protection and privacy laws.

Rather than forcing a foreign company to divest, which, among other things, coincides with windfall market gains for American companies like Meta and Alphabet

Interesting that you are more concerned about that, than the fact that China very strictly controls what its population is exposed to, and has a history of allowing American companies access to its market just long enough to steal their intellectual property and then bans them.

Your hate and blame America first shit no matter the issue or topic gets really, really old.

The risk is not just - and perhaps even not primarily - the actual security of our data and systems and intellectual property.

It is the incremental, iterative malign influence campaigns that, for example, get good-hearted people taking up for dictators.

[ousdahl]

Maybe I should look for a video of two Chinese officials like “yea Facebook really fucked with our ability to control the geopolitical narrative” just to see if the reaction is like “omg so right this is doing more to restore ousdahl’s credibility”