Has anyone on here ever actually used Tik Tok? I see maybe one video of a dancing girl a week.
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NYC Bans TikTok on All City-Owned Devices
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You think removing one App from government property equates to this?What is the definition of fascism agin
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It's the algorithm. I only look at dancing girls, so I keep seeing dancing girls.
I'm surprised Apple even allows these devices in the iOS App Store. I guess too many users would throw a fit otherwise?
It took a five second google search to answer your first sentence. Far less time then you took to post multiple questions about something you couldn't be bothered to research the answers to.
I think it's the stupidest and most harmful app in the world, however, It's a pretty ineffective ban, the ones that want to use it will just get a second phone.
Also any social media app should be banned on a work phone, everywhere, that's just common sense!
Also any social media app should be banned on a work phone, everywhere, that's just common sense!
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Who even needs TikTok just some stupid stuff on it.
YouTube Shorts is better.
YouTube Shorts is better.
There’s a couple other categories you missed other than personal use of work devices
1) anywhere BYOD might be allowed/encouraged. These arent explicitly city owned devices but will probably have this applied as policy updates on the MDM rules that are likely pushed
2) the professional uses of social media. Many if not all city agencies have social media presences, that is everything from the sanitation dept posting about alternate side parking to the parks dept posting videos of animals and foliage to promotion of city events to official channels of communication to etc
So the end result of 2 is there’s lots of city employees with *work related* social media apps on their work devices
I use it daily.
Like you, I don't really see many dancing girls. Depends a lot on the types of videos you watch to completion/repeatedly, the videos you comment on, search for, etc.
Consequently, a lot of the clips I see are crafting (restoration of really old objects, etc), musical creators, gaming (seems to be a focus on things like d&d atm), animal rescue places, cool nature things, etc.
The point is to cut off the source of generating unlimited New data. What they have is what they have, but we can stop them from having more.
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What is the definition of fascism agin
THEIR phone, THEIR rules. If you don’t like it, get your own phone.
I mean, they're only collecting the data Apple allows them to collect.
Why would have TikTok on city devices in first place??? It’s like installing TikTok on an office device. This is another “we are taking a stance” by politicians. Such a shallow move.
Hope people can see right through this. But there are lots of people who live by headlines in that CNN and MSNBC world.
Ban phones in school during class.
Hope people can see right through this. But there are lots of people who live by headlines in that CNN and MSNBC world.
Ban phones in school during class.
you know there are official city presences on social media platforms, right? You have to communicate with your citizens on the platforms they actually use
Agreed. Ban all Social Networks during WORK HOURS. After all, unless you work at one of these Social Networks companies you are wasting your employer's time and perhaps you'll get your work done sooner. Go SN till you're blue in the face, on your own time.
Loving the pamphlets and leaflets analogy! Brings quite a practical and plausible perspective to all of this (as WWI and WWII propaganda wars, but the digital version).
Incredible that so many people don’t understand that the biggest danger isn’t collecting data but the inverse flow of information.
Tik Tok controls the algorithm — in other words, it controls what information is consumed by the youngest generation of Americans.
There have been studies that demonstrate that social feeds on US social media are tuned to generate anger and conflict, which we’ve all seen (and participated in) in comments. In China, their social media is tuned to keep people happy and content.
I’ll let you connect the dots.
Tik Tok controls the algorithm — in other words, it controls what information is consumed by the youngest generation of Americans.
There have been studies that demonstrate that social feeds on US social media are tuned to generate anger and conflict, which we’ve all seen (and participated in) in comments. In China, their social media is tuned to keep people happy and content.
I’ll let you connect the dots.
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Meh. The solution is shorter workdays. A lot of office workers can do the day's work in 3-5 hours. Forcing them to sit in front of a computer for 8 hours means they will have 3-5 hours of nothing to do. They turned to social media to appear busy while not doing any work.
It shouldn't just be banned for security reasons. It's a cancer on society!
How generous of you for letting me connect the dots..