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I'm Opposed to the TikTok Ban

6 pointsby surprisetalk5 months ago

4 comments

econ5 months ago
If I look over the ingredients my inner philosopher can&#x27;t seem to combine them into a palletable meal. It all starts with the absurdly naive idea that you can just let people post things they want and that it will all work out nicely. Then we get rid of all sensible limitations and replace them with senseless ones. Imagine how easy it is to make the incorrect content. You can pull your pants down in seconds. We can&#x27;t show that stuff to grown ups let alone children. How tribal people running around naked manage to survive no one knows. Then there is the ocean of garbage content in the middle that might actually start out as something very valuable if grandma is the only audience. Poof! The baby is world famous all of a sudden and stays <i>that baby</i> the rest of their lives. Other mum&#x27;s want their baby to be equally special and make the effort.<p>It&#x27;s such a weird plot I can&#x27;t even form a satisfactory opinion about its components let alone the sum.<p>Armies of men and women behind the curtain try to answer the question every day with very mixed results. Where they are collectively sure stuff is unfit to look at they&#x27;ve already looked at it.<p>To actually describe the topic various things need to be said that may not be written on some platforms or by law.<p>Humans are funnier than anyone!
ttyprintk5 months ago
Doesn’t it collect facial recognition landmarks? With lawmakers uninterested in even definitional privacy, maybe the executive steps in on a case-by-case basis when he sees privacy mores clash.
binary_slinger5 months ago
I understood the issue to be primarily about the app’s use by the adversary to conduct psyops.
Opt13015 months ago
Aside from the points the author points out, it is also laughable since it does exactly what the US has been accusing China of doing (censoring platforms it does not control).