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TikTok is politically poisonous. Why would they?!?
by m0xte 6y ago
TikTok is politically poisonous. Why would they?!?
- ssully 6y agoBecause it's incredibly popular. I think it's a bad idea because I think TicTok is only a year or two away from their peak until another app catches the zeitgeist.
- kevin_thibedeau 6y agoMySpace was incredibly popular. Now it's used by the underbelly of society.
- bzb3 6y agoTiktok bans all political content. It's literally the opposite of politically poisonous.
- ryanSrich 6y agoI mean...money? TikTok is massive. Slightly smaller than Instagram, more than double the size of Twitter. It's a bargain even at $50bn.
- AndrewBissell 6y agoWatch as the political "poison" of TikTok's rampant user surveillance is magically transmuted away once it is acquired by an American tech company!
- newen 6y agoYep, probably the main reason why they want to sell it to a US based company.
- xxpor 6y agoBut that's the exact issue, it's political poison because of who owns it. Why would it be "magically transmuted away"? That's literally the entire point.
- AndrewBissell 6y agoMy point is that it's funny that what makes TikTok poisonous is not the incredibly intrusive surveillance itself, but rather the fact that it's being done by a foreign company/government (which ultimately can probably do a lot less harm to Americans with all that info than Microsoft or the US government).