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Informing themselves, or getting indoctrinated by an app partially owned by the Chinese Communist Party? (When you put it that way, it's an insane idea that we'

Informing themselves, or getting indoctrinated by an app partially owned by the Chinese Communist Party? (When you put it that way, it's an insane idea that we've permitted things to get this far.)

cloutchaser 4y ago
No idea why you are getting downvoted. It’s a completely legit point. TikTok is actually now run by an ex xaomi exec and party member. Do people really think they don’t put their fingers on the scale? I guess the same people believed Twitter didn’t either.
hellotomyrars 4y ago
I’ll bite. What is the indoctrination the CCP feeding teens over tiktok?
- gjsman-1000 4y ago
  In China, social media is regulated and enforces that children be shown content that is generally related to STEM or other achievements. No stupid dance videos, no memes, no stupid trends - it's "check out this algorithm I wrote!" Many of the top-trending videos on TikTok would actually be banned. Is it malicious? I think so, though not everyone agrees, but the outcome is the same both ways: I would say it is indoctrination into stupidity, not an ideology. Remember, these are the future soldiers who could, potentially, fight China in a Taiwan skirmish. If they only know how to communicate by meme, can't spell anything, have no sense of achievement, and all dream of being YouTube stars, you've won before firing a single shot.
  - MonkeyMalarky 4y ago
    And here I thought it was all a conspiracy to infect American teens with imaginary mental illnesses.
    - dpkirchner 4y ago
      I thought it was an app intended to show users content they might enjoy enough that they might also view ads between content, all in order to make a profit.
      - slowmovintarget 4y ago
        > "I don't understand anything," she said with decision, determined to preserve her incomprehension intact. "Nothing. Least of all," she continued in another tone "why you don't take soma when you have these dreadful ideas of yours. You'd forget all about them. And instead of feeling miserable, you'd be jolly. So jolly, ..." -- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  - orwin 4y ago
    Not chineese, not from the US either, still i installed ticktock roughly 6 month ago and for now, i mostly had science and tech pushed to me. Some with nice music too! [just read paragraph 2 and 3 from the parent, yeah, sorry for taking it seriously]

Informing themselves, or getting indoctrinated by an app partially owned by the Chinese Communist Party? (When you put it that way, it's an insane idea that we've permitted things to get this far.)

cloutchaser 4y ago

No idea why you are getting downvoted. It’s a completely legit point. TikTok is actually now run by an ex xaomi exec and party member. Do people really think they don’t put their fingers on the scale? I guess the same people believed Twitter didn’t either.

hellotomyrars 4y ago

I’ll bite. What is the indoctrination the CCP feeding teens over tiktok?

gjsman-1000 4y ago
In China, social media is regulated and enforces that children be shown content that is generally related to STEM or other achievements. No stupid dance videos, no memes, no stupid trends - it's "check out this algorithm I wrote!" Many of the top-trending videos on TikTok would actually be banned. Is it malicious? I think so, though not everyone agrees, but the outcome is the same both ways: I would say it is indoctrination into stupidity, not an ideology. Remember, these are the future soldiers who could, potentially, fight China in a Taiwan skirmish. If they only know how to communicate by meme, can't spell anything, have no sense of achievement, and all dream of being YouTube stars, you've won before firing a single shot.
- MonkeyMalarky 4y ago
  And here I thought it was all a conspiracy to infect American teens with imaginary mental illnesses.
  - dpkirchner 4y ago
    I thought it was an app intended to show users content they might enjoy enough that they might also view ads between content, all in order to make a profit.
    - slowmovintarget 4y ago
      > "I don't understand anything," she said with decision, determined to preserve her incomprehension intact. "Nothing. Least of all," she continued in another tone "why you don't take soma when you have these dreadful ideas of yours. You'd forget all about them. And instead of feeling miserable, you'd be jolly. So jolly, ..." -- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- orwin 4y ago
  Not chineese, not from the US either, still i installed ticktock roughly 6 month ago and for now, i mostly had science and tech pushed to me. Some with nice music too! [just read paragraph 2 and 3 from the parent, yeah, sorry for taking it seriously]