• @[email protected]
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      437 months ago

      Don’t use it if you don’t like it, but don’t give this bullshit Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda control of something just because you don’t like it.

      It’s just as bad or good as any other algorithm based content app like Facebook or Instagram. If we have a problem with privacy for example then go after that like with gdpr.

      • meseek #2982
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        287 months ago

        I think you have it backwards, in that it’s the US that’s trying to stop all the Chinese propaganda coming from that app.

        And if TT pull out of the US, it’s pretty telling that their core drive for that thing wasn’t money.

        • @[email protected]
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          187 months ago

          Why would a tech company sell their product to another competitor in such a big landscape like US? It’s quite very much because of money.

          • @[email protected]
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            57 months ago

            Well for one, because if they don’t then they will get precisely 0 money. If it is indeed about the money then we would absolutely expect them to sell no? Otherwise… There’s no money

            • @[email protected]
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              17 months ago

              0 money from us market. They still have a big market outside US. Why would they sabotage it by giving an advantage to a competitor. No money is better than negative money.

              • @[email protected]
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                17 months ago

                While they would no longer be competing in the US market, any ‘competitor’ would have to do the work of gaining billions of customers in other countries, that are already entrenched into Tik Tok user space. I think that worry is kinda moot if you’re TT leadership.

        • @[email protected]
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          17 months ago

          If France passes a law requiring Google to sell Google France to a French company, would Google pulling out instead of selling mean their core drive in France wasn’t money?

      • @[email protected]
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        217 months ago

        I don’t think it’s primarily about the algorithm or “Public Enlightenment and Propaganda” but instead about data and company ownership. Currently the US and EU are far closer allies with each other than with china. Services that are owned/controlled by their countries are therefore prioritized, and competing services from non-ally countries are way more scrutinized.