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What does ‘better’ mean here? Eg TikTok is better at personalising recommendations where facebook tends to give more generic content, so TikTok may better give

What does ‘better’ mean here? Eg TikTok is better at personalising recommendations where facebook tends to give more generic content, so TikTok may better give people what they want but also be more addictive/have a stronger filter-bubble effect.

andai 3y ago
There's one TikTok for me, and one TikTok for thee. The Chinese version promotes educational videos, and has a strict daily time limit. The "export" version is literally designed to make you retarded. Agree that other apps aren't much better though (especially now that they've redesigned themselves after TikTok's model...)
- wruza 3y ago
  Why banning it then? Don’t US/EU have power to force educational content and time limits? This “oh, all feeds are bad, we should think of maybe banning them all” will lead nowhere 100% of times. Feels like China absolutely doesn’t even have to do anything bad because the US don’t know what they want.
  - edgyquant 3y ago
    >why banning it then? Because it’s the most logical thing to do and not doing so is a national security nightmare
- mistermann 3y ago
  > The "export" version is literally designed to make you retarded. Then why does it have so much philosophy content that can reveal the naivete of the many comments like this one reads about "TikTok"?
- cramjabsyn 3y ago
  There is a setting to enable the STEM feed in the export version. Try not to be an ableist.
  - andai 3y ago
    You can call it "induce cognitive impairment" if you prefer, but it doesn't change what it is. The mere presence of a smartphone reduces basal attentional performance: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-36256-4 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-36256-4 If calling it what it is helps encourage people to stop doing it to themselves (we are after all emotion-first, rationalization-later!)... then your taking offense on my behalf (for the record, I do have brain damage) will have been an acceptable cost.
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- lossolo 3y ago
  Why can't we restrict TikTok to the same content only in the west? It's just a matter of regulation, we know it's possible because it's how it's done in China. Now think about it, is it really China here to blame for our regulations?
rTX5CMRXIfFG 3y ago
Better in terms of the grounds Tiktok was banned

andai 3y ago

There's one TikTok for me, and one TikTok for thee. The Chinese version promotes educational videos, and has a strict daily time limit. The "export" version is literally designed to make you retarded. Agree that other apps aren't much better though (especially now that they've redesigned themselves after TikTok's model...)

wruza 3y ago
Why banning it then? Don’t US/EU have power to force educational content and time limits? This “oh, all feeds are bad, we should think of maybe banning them all” will lead nowhere 100% of times. Feels like China absolutely doesn’t even have to do anything bad because the US don’t know what they want.
- edgyquant 3y ago
  >why banning it then? Because it’s the most logical thing to do and not doing so is a national security nightmare
mistermann 3y ago
> The "export" version is literally designed to make you retarded. Then why does it have so much philosophy content that can reveal the naivete of the many comments like this one reads about "TikTok"?
cramjabsyn 3y ago
There is a setting to enable the STEM feed in the export version. Try not to be an ableist.
- andai 3y ago
  You can call it "induce cognitive impairment" if you prefer, but it doesn't change what it is. The mere presence of a smartphone reduces basal attentional performance: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-36256-4 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-36256-4 If calling it what it is helps encourage people to stop doing it to themselves (we are after all emotion-first, rationalization-later!)... then your taking offense on my behalf (for the record, I do have brain damage) will have been an acceptable cost.
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lossolo 3y ago
Why can't we restrict TikTok to the same content only in the west? It's just a matter of regulation, we know it's possible because it's how it's done in China. Now think about it, is it really China here to blame for our regulations?

rTX5CMRXIfFG 3y ago

Better in terms of the grounds Tiktok was banned