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if this is what it took to get two large multinational automakers to capitulate to basic theft immobilization in their vehicles to protect customers, perhaps we
by nimbius 4y ago
if this is what it took to get two large multinational automakers to capitulate to basic theft immobilization in their vehicles to protect customers, perhaps we should reconsider the 'tiktok is objective evil' narrative.
- jimt1234 4y agoTotally agree. Sounds like they're just using an established, more generic narrative to deflect accountability - basically, "It's not our fault, it's the hackers and bad kids on the internet." We see this all the time for security incidents: "Hackers steal data from BigCorp", when the headline should read more like, "BigCorp released a faulty product, and now you're suffering."
- autoexec 4y ago> perhaps we should reconsider the 'tiktok is objective evil' narrative. I don't think the fact that tiktok was educating car thieves on ideal targets leading to an increase in stolen vehicles is a great example of tiktok's benevolence or enough to excuse it for the other harms it enables. That said, nothing is pure evil all the time. Tiktok is just a popular means of communication and sometimes the message being communicated will be good and sometimes it will be bad. There's no criticism of tiktok's content that doesn't apply just as much to youtube or any other social media platform. However, tiktok still has their own privacy/security issues, the concerns over what and who gets promoted or suppressed by tiktok's algorithms/moderators, and of course that whole supporting china/genocide/the oppression of hong kong thing all of which makes me doubt the "tiktok is evil" narrative is going to go away just because a couple car companies caved to some bad press.