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TikTok Could Face US Ban Unless Chinese Owners Sell Stake
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We always have to start somewhere. Doesn’t mean it will end with TikTok. DJI drones could be next as well.
I do find it humorous that when the previous administration was looking to do this they were completely destroyed by the media as being "Xenophobic and Paranoid!!"
Current administration wants to ban it and the same media outlets are saying "yeah good idea!"
Current administration wants to ban it and the same media outlets are saying "yeah good idea!"
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Yeah. Personally I think Trump was right then and Biden is also right now.
It’s the media that plays partisan. Both sides of media unfortunately.
I find it interesting that China has been banning Facebook and similar western based SoMe for years. Not because they were afraid of western surveillance, but because they’re afraid of their own population.
Whereas the west is considering banning Chinese SoMe (and more) because we’re afraid of China.
I’m not exactly sure why we’re afraid of China. Of course they’re gonna try out every trick in the book to spy on us, but we’re doing the same anyway. That’s what superpowers do to each other. That’s the name of the game. Like it’s perfectly alright to have drones flying all over the Middle East and right up to Russian borders.
Whereas the west is considering banning Chinese SoMe (and more) because we’re afraid of China.
I’m not exactly sure why we’re afraid of China. Of course they’re gonna try out every trick in the book to spy on us, but we’re doing the same anyway. That’s what superpowers do to each other. That’s the name of the game. Like it’s perfectly alright to have drones flying all over the Middle East and right up to Russian borders.
"Viral at any cost". Encouraging children to potentially put themselves in risky or dangerous situations just so they can get a dopamine rush isn't healthy at all. I've had an instance of a child (probably about 10-12 years old) run out in front of my car, do a "dance" then run back on the pavement while their friends recorded it on their phone. The child was wearing a TikTok hoodie, so I'm assuming it was some stupid attempt at getting themselves on to the algorithm.
My sister is a school teacher, and she's noticed changes in kids using the app, they're completely failing to maintain any kind of attention in class after a couple of minutes. Where phones have been confiscated, the kids often have extreme reactions to being separated from them. Some have literally ran away from school after being told to hand over their phone, which obviously comes with a whole other set of problems.
Educate kids in moderation, we've got the tools in iOS and Android to limit their use. Use them.
Not saying they are, I'd be more than happy to see them gone too.
In my opinion, social media is one of the worst things to have happened to humanity. It was great in the start, but once money-makers figured out they can exploit the human mind to make big dollar, that's when it went downhill.
That’s SoMe in general doing that. And lack of involvement from parents (who are probably just as addicted to other SoMe). Surely TikTok is a terrible thing, but not because it’s Chinese. If they hadn’t invented it, then someone else would have done it.
Definitely. Banning in households isn't the solution, but teaching moderation is (I think anyway) a reasonable compromise.
Will require ISPs to block connections to / from the service, and platform operators (like Google Play, App Store, etc) to remove it from their stores, and potentially from user devices.
This will deter probably 95% of the population, but there would be ways around it, mostly via a VPN.
Probably correct, though that doesn't mean we shouldn't be concerned about Tik-Tok just we should look at all social media and "mind-hacking" but yea I sometimes think this is more perilous than the Cuban Missile Crisis just no-one is really paying attention.
All of it is trash. It has turned people into zombies. Not a day goes by that I don't see someone just staring at their phone while walking, barely looking up. Thankfully, I have never had any interest in social media. Facebook is the worst if that is even possible.
I hope they ban it, and EU follows suit. This app is a plague, that has two different functions in China and the west. In China, it has more educational purpose, while in western world, it is made to completely destabilize peoples mindsets and attention spans. It's basically a mental health concern. There is already more than enough research that tells us that social media apps are very very bad for human mental health, and TikTok is working by the book in order to inflict as much mental health damage as possible. Doesnt matter if it's Chinese or Brazilian, it has to go unless you want your kids to grow up into complete morons with 3 seconds attention span and plethora of mental issues.
Ask China. They know how to do it.
Well… that might say more about us in the west than the Chinese 😂 we’re more stupid and easily brain-hacked
I agree with you except for one point. While I think these apps play a role in creating a generation of smartphone addicts, it is the parents who are stuffing smartphones and tablets into young children's hands who hold the lion's share of the blame. Throwing a digital babysitter in your child's hands is no way to parent. It is lazy and pathetic. If you get defensive over this post, you should probably take a long look at your situation and maybe you should consider modifying your behavior.
So this seems less a tiktok specific issue and an issue of parenting. Basically the parents that choose not to be involved in moderating and managing the kids social platforms are now turning to the government to do their job for them.
Again, I'm not for or against tiktok. I'm on the outside looking in, and wondering what's people's opinions.
I don't see too much difference in this over other social platforms and to blame one saying how evil it is, because a Chinese company owns it but giving other platforms a pass (or at least a blind eye) seems hypercritical.
Just ban it. And take Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp too.
Oh wait it's alright for US companies to spy on everyone but not China, right?
Oh wait it's alright for US companies to spy on everyone but not China, right?
Yup, but TikTok is taking it to the extreme. Directly rewarding risky or dangerous videos with viral fame and potentially money. The number of cases of children and young adults dying because of some stupid craze that originates on these platforms is just growing and growing, not to mention suicides.
Asking/Forcing Apple to remove it from the App Store is a start. They can do the same with Google but people could still sideload it.
They could ban any access to the TikTok domain through major ISPs just like they do with torrenting sites. A VPN would be a way around it though.