Oh fuck off with all these tiktok apologetics posts. It’s a shitty app comtrolled by a shitty government. Move on.
Two things can be true
It can be nakedly hypocritical, this Kabuki theater of oh woe is me it’s so difficult to do anything of substance to reign in these companies, it’s just politically very tricky what with the free market and all-- oh it’s Chinese and they don’t give me money? Fuck 'em get 'em out of here, 50-0, fuckin ban it.
And at the same time Tiktok can also be legitimately a much more dangerous company than Facebook or Lehman Brothers or whatever, even as regular-criminal dangerous as those two and the rest of the bunch are.
If only there was someone in government who was workin on that shit
(I don’t know how directly the simple 15% minimum has already impacted things, but taking a quick look at e.g. Amazon, it definitely looks like they’re paying more after December of 2022 versus before.)
“write him up Chum”
The problem isn’t that they want to ban Tik Tok, it’s that they completely ignore ever other questionable app. Let’s make laws that address both data harvesting as well as platforms that use misinformation to manipulate large groups of people in exchange for money. We already know Facebook has been guilty of this but as an American company they can offer campaign donations to make politicians forget the problem. Sigh.
Absolutely. Is apps using addictive based systems to hook people in and then harvest their data aggressively to turn around and sell it to groups who use that data however they want an issue?
It sure feels like it should be. And if it is then it should be an issue of any app doing so.
But it’s keeping the wheels on this economic disaster of a ride. So only the ones that don’t pay directly back into the country letting this run full scale without restrictions because of small kickbacks, aren’t ok?
It becomes abhorrently two-faced. And it should be apparent by now that the wealth generated by these American companies are not actually being shared with the American government or people. But getting to be close to it and get small feedings from them is enough to appease our geriatric/out of touch ruling class.
The loopholes are there by design, it’s not a mistake. Just look up lobbying in the United States.
