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TikTok is allegedly staffed with dozens of ex-FBI, CIA, and US State Department officials who moderate content[1]. Somehow PRISM and the closed-doors FISA cour
by jchook 3y ago
TikTok is allegedly staffed with dozens of ex-FBI, CIA, and US State Department officials who moderate content[1].
Somehow PRISM and the closed-doors FISA court hearings, Lavabit, etc seem to be collectively memory-holed by USians. Nowadays their anxiety about state surveillance is reserved for the "CCP".
1. https://www.mintpressnews.com/tiktok-chinese-trojan-horse-run-by-state-department-officials/284353/ https://www.mintpressnews.com/tiktok-chinese-trojan-horse-ru...
- scrum-treats 3y agoAgreed. It's also evident in the types of propaganda that appear, at least on my FYP. I guess they are running out of fresh spins on the old psyops wheel of manipulation.
- djkoolaide 3y agoThe thing is, this is a pretty standard playbook for many intelligence-turned-civilian types. They become "consultants" for basically every industry. Not defending it, but it's not really unique to TikTok.
- lazyeye 3y agoThe article is about TikTok.
- themodelplumber 3y ago> In the summer of 2021, he went straight from his top State Department job to become product policy manager for trust and safety at TikTok, a position that, on paper, he appears completely unqualified for. Earlier this year, Cardona left the company. Fascinating stuff in here. Wouldn't it be funny if the situation was any of these: - TikTok is some revolving-door communications center for off-the-record relations between USG and PRC - Your TikTok device is a node in a cluster that's being used for info-wars against some extraterrestrial threat as PRC and USG combine forces - Nah, USG just uses TikTok as a way to backdoor PRC
- j-bos 3y agoWhen did USian become a thing? Or rather, what's the etymological path into common use?
- detaro 3y agoFairly sure that's an online communication thing. Wider geographic reach of messages + it works a lot better written than spoken, and it's been used at least since the early 2000s?
- adultSwim 3y agoA big push for it comes from the fact that many peoples, spread across two continents, identify as American. Our continents are the Americas.
- j-bos 3y agoThis I get, and have seen before (cool Mexican tv shows), but I'm more intersted in a detailed history of "USian"'s initial use and spread. So far I've only seen it on hn, but definitely more than I'd expect since it's such an odd to read word.
- dkjaudyeqooe 3y ago> ...seem to be collectively memory-holed by USians Because we dare have a thread where we talk about CCP surveillance? How can we possibly memory hole anything when people like you are constantly reminding us of these off-topic issues?
- jchook 3y agoFirst result for me is 2013. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Abusinessinsider.com+PRISM https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Abusinessinsider.com+P...