The Billionaire Keeping TikTok on Phones in the U.S.::Financier Jeff Yass made a big bet on the app, and he’s a top donor to lawmakers who support it.

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    1 year ago

    TikTok isn’t like American data harvesting apps. For Facebook and Snapchat the main data purchasers are Ad companies. (All mainstream social media is complicit in selling data to rival superpowers, I just believe Tik Tok intentionally feeds more harmful content to youth than other platforms) The CCP has party officials on TikTok’s board of directors. The app is designed to force feed an endless stream of toxic behaviors, overstimulating content, low quality journalism and disinformation mixed in with entertainment to the West’s youth in an effort to influence them. They take your data input (what videos you like, what you don’t like, what captivates you, how gullible you are) and create a psychological profile. If you have your camera and mic access on the data they can collect on you increases significantly. The more you use it, the stronger your psychological profile gets. At a certain point, they can start throwing in toxic content that fits your profile to manipulate you mentally. The main goal is to show you content that makes you angry, upset, or distracted to ruin your day. If you use it daily, it can add up. This is why we’re having a national mental health crisis and why grades are slipping in schools.

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      1 year ago

      Zuckerberg has been caught illegally selling data to China multiple times in the last decade.

      Please tell me more about how Facebook is a better steward of my information.

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        I’m not saying Facebook is better- I despise Facebook just as much. I always thought of Facebook as the disinformation campaign for older middle Americans and Tik Tok for the youth. It’s kind of mind blowing that they sell anyone’s information to the highest bidder, and the politics of it are just a front. Updated my main comment to reflect this.

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    1 year ago

    The US should not be censoring harmless stuff like this.

    Sure, they can make rules for federal employees and using it on their phones and stuff, but they should not for the average citizen.

    I am in favor of big tech being regulated in regards to the data they can collect and transparency about the data they collect and what they do with it.

    That is really what would solve the problem. Not banning an app.