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TikTok Could Face US Ban Unless Chinese Owners Sell Stake
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So, let me get this straight. We've just had a bunch of hearings on how the US government was telling people who can and who can't speak, on Twitter. But instead of doing something about that scandal, they want to go after a social media company that doesn't answer to the US government...
Waffle House...great toast, great bacon.
In the South you can tell how tasty the food is by the average customer weight. The higher the weight, the tastier the place. Especially true for BBQ joints.
Why would China need to send drones to the U.S. when they can use cheaper and seemingly harder-to-detect spy balloons? Or just hack U.S. government and company computers from the comfort of their own homes to get the info they want (cyber espionage) such as the design plans for our F-35 fighter jets some 15+ years ago which is benefitting our adversaries.
China's industrial development is building properties that are unfinished and they can't sell, and are slowly rotting away.
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www.wsj.com
They're calling them ghost cities
China has at least 65 million empty homes — enough to house the population of France. It offers a glimpse into the country's massive housing-market problem.
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The difference is they know that when people trust such an app they are willing to share anything. Especially the Android crowd because they have been trained to give up data for free stuff. It’s like taking candy from a baby. Tick Tok is the ultimate Trojan horse. Once indoctrinated they are a trusted source and any content they push will be believed. Add AI and the ability to figure out who is connected to who, what motives them to action, and more
Oh yes indeed. If I had access to food like this all days I would not have turned 40. It was tasty for sure. I have never before tried beer battered bacon. This meal (including the milkshake) was 2300 kcal or 10% more than I need daily! 😂
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Data harvesting on users by the CCP which can easily be repurposed into targeted propaganda, swing elections, misinform the public, and generally make kids more stupid by shipping an "unrestricted" version of tik tok to every other country.
Over 1/4 of Americans are frequent users of the platform with the majority being impressionable youngsters.
What could go wrong.
The fact that they want to ban the app instead of the datamining tells you everything we need to know about this corrupt law. US companies are lobbying to destroy their biggest competition
If the US wanted to take down China they could simply park a carrier strike group in the Indian ocean and cut off the vast majority of their energy they would have no way to fight back. Ignoring that China has an approaching demographic crisis that's worst than Japans and hasn't taken any measures to mitigate it yet unlike Japan. The real-estate market is on pins and needles and once it pops they will have their 2008 style recession. China is going to have a rough couple of decades I don't think the CCP will survive it they will blame the west and sure we wont be doing them favors for obvious reasons but the vast majority of it will be self inflicted.
That started being addressed under Trumps admin and has expanded under Biden's were going to see a lot of made in Mexico/central American electronics in the next 10-20 years.
There's a female YT'er who posts nothing but stupid TikTok video's daily on her YT Channel. Each video usually gets several million within 24 hours. She must be uber rich with that kind of viewership.
The fact that it appeals so much to children, encourages production of potentially dangerous content, and how it is changing the behaviours of children.
The sad thing is that there's a ton of educational content on YouTube that's actually really good. The kurzgesagt people in particular are excellent.
That's the promise of edutainment. But of course you get the (billions of) chaff with the wheat.
That's the promise of edutainment. But of course you get the (billions of) chaff with the wheat.
Mixed feelings. No question the content on there (and other social media) is incredibly damaging. But isn't that the parent's responsibility? Turn on parental controls and block the app. Do facebook, instagram, snap, and twitter while you're at it.
Besides, if the CCP really wants data they can exploit, they'll just hack sites like, oh, I don't know, Ashley Madison and the OPM.
Besides, if the CCP really wants data they can exploit, they'll just hack sites like, oh, I don't know, Ashley Madison and the OPM.
Eating 4-5Kcals is incredibly easy in the US lost so much weight when I lived in Europe but I missed the food so much.
Kurzgesagt is propaganda connected to some investment firm that was subtly pushing their companies as green energy solutions when they were long shots at best.
Parents' responsibility? They don't want to be responsible for their kids. If they did, they wouldn't need to be encouraged to use parental controls - it would be instinctual.
I block the majority of social media for my kids. I allow Discord, but I keep a very close eye on what servers they use. No twitter, reddit, facebook, instagram, tiktok, snapchat, etc in my household.
Interesting. I distinctly recall someone from the last administration railing against TikTok, calling for its ban but was viciously pilloried by everyone and their mothers as "being racist", "xenophobic" etc.
I wonder what's changed.....
I wonder what's changed.....
Should we be worried about the potential for Chinese retaliation against two of the USA's biggest most successful tech titans? Apple and Tesla
Lots of billionaires in China wouldn't be happy they can't get their iPhones.😝
So much youth involved crime is happening these days and often Tik Tok has either been the motivator based on some challenge or the kids end up meeting on the platform itself and commit group minded crimes.
The KIA/Hyundai theft challenge is and was a prime example.
TikTok challenge spurs rise in thefts of Kia, Hyundai cars
A dangerous challenge spreading on TikTok has thieves targeting certain makes and models of 2010-2021 Kia and Hyundai vehicles.
We also had an incident here in Toronto, Canada where a group of girls met on Tik Tok initially and when they met on person they ended up killing an unhoused 55 year old man over a bottle of booze he had that they wanted to steal from a friend of his. He stepped up to defend his friend and was killed in the swarming. They even posted a video of the attack on TikTik themselves.
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It’s just a super unregulated environment that even parents can’t seem to get control over.
LOL What you want them to do? Ask nicely to please not harvest any data from the platform? Whilst everyone in the infosec industry knew for years that this is going straight onto Chinese government big data platforms
Several governments have been soft on this for too long, and when it now penetrates on official use devices and users I can't blame them it is too much. Banning on such devices is very easy and verifiable, asking nicely to not mine the data doesn't do anything.