> 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

> 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.