These threads/articles always get the facts wrong, TikTok is not “getting banned”, they are just forcing the company to divest from it’s Chinese parent company.
AND/OR switch gears to actually mitigate the damage these companies and their Almighty Algorithms do to people. TikTok has worried me for years. But TikTok wasn’t at the forefront of radicalizing and driving a wedge between Americans, our own companies helped with that first. Our own companies mined our profiles, upped the rage bait, and redesigned UI to be less controllable, less friendly. Our own companies wouldn’t fact check, or treat mods fairly, or defend users from harassment.
I’ve got no love for TikTok, and I even bet this ban is a good, if unpopular, event. But we deserve so, so much more, and I don’t want this to be the one thing we do just so we don’t have to actually regulate how massive Internet companies/communication corporations treat average citizens.
These threads/articles always get the facts wrong, TikTok is not “getting banned”, they are just forcing the company to divest from it’s Chinese parent company.
… Or get banned
AND/OR switch gears to actually mitigate the damage these companies and their Almighty Algorithms do to people. TikTok has worried me for years. But TikTok wasn’t at the forefront of radicalizing and driving a wedge between Americans, our own companies helped with that first. Our own companies mined our profiles, upped the rage bait, and redesigned UI to be less controllable, less friendly. Our own companies wouldn’t fact check, or treat mods fairly, or defend users from harassment.
I’ve got no love for TikTok, and I even bet this ban is a good, if unpopular, event. But we deserve so, so much more, and I don’t want this to be the one thing we do just so we don’t have to actually regulate how massive Internet companies/communication corporations treat average citizens.