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EU opens formal investigation into TikTok over possible online content breaches
- HermitX 3y agoThe subtle influence of TikTok on people is quite astonishing. I believe that there should also be antitrust laws in the field of communication. Otherwise, platforms like TikTok can gradually change people's thoughts, making their ideas more uniform. The government should not control people's thoughts, nor should any giant company control people's thoughts.
- throwawayqqq11 3y agoGovernments should invest more into education to train kids to actively seek and sense their cognitive biases. I think this is the only serious solution, punishing or baning platforms just addresses symptoms. To tackle filter bubbles, you need digital competence, which is also an educational problem.
- kyleplum 3y agoI wish someone would make a social media version of the North American house hippo commercial that ran in the late 90's.
- dmonitor 3y agoi don't think awareness of reward training through likes/engagement makes you any more resilient to it
- earthwalker99 3y agoyeah, one has to actually be rewarded appropriately for their effort to learn such habits, but capitalism considers it more important to reward owners of capital for doing nothing at all, so we do that instead.
- gameman144 3y agoWhat would you imagine an appropriate reward for such efforts would be, other than intrinsic ones?
- earthwalker99 3y agogiving parents time off to spend with their kids would be a lot more effective. the schools can't even teach basic material to poor kids because their home lives are so lacking.
- psychlops 3y agoGiven any problem, someone will always find a government solution.
- throwawayqqq11 3y agoGiven any problem, someone will blame government for it. Its similar to dismis government initiatives without any deeper thought.
- vdaea 3y agoI've seen this done in Spain and basically it means all kids have to go through an entire year of progressive propaganda. Thanks but no thanks.
- throwawayqqq11 3y agoSo awareness to your cognitive biases is progrssive propaganda? You have deserved my downvote.
- ImJamal 3y agoWill this actually work? If anything people will just think they are too smart to be influenced.
- psychlops 3y ago> The subtle influence of TikTok on people is quite astonishing. On some people, not all. There will always be a susceptible portion of people who gravitate towards some influence. Today it is TikTok.
- mrtksn 3y ago>platforms like TikTok can gradually change people's thoughts, making their ideas more uniform Its nothing special to TikTok, the only difference of TikTok is that for the USA its a first(as a foreign owned social media company). The rest of the world was under the influence of Meta and Google for decades. It was reported that Facebook did experiments like making people sad by curating the feed. Anyway, TikTok is working great for me. I see no political or culture war content, I enjoy comedians, travellers, scientists, culture, culture commentators, songs, hot women and cats. Its like the good old days of the internet, its fantastic. Also, unlike the traditional social media, it doesn't induce FOMO. I don'y check TikTok all the day, I don't feel the urge to be on top of my feed but once I'm in I can spend hours. Much more healthier than Instagram or Twitter IMHO. Also, I see all the cringe inducing TikTok stuff when on Twitter. That stuff never appears on my TikTok feed. I wonder if EU will find anything. maybe sharing of private data illegally?
- snowpid 3y agoThere are reports of rising antisemitism thanks to Tiktok e. G. https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/bildungsstaette-anne-frank-prangert-antisemitische-speed-radikalisierung-auf-tiktok-an-100.html https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/bildungsstaette-anne-frank-pr...
- mrtksn 3y agoThere were also reports about rising extremism because of Youtube, it was discussed many times here. Also, do I have to remind of the state of Twitter? Wasn't Facebook involved in an actual genocide[0]? Maybe its just the society evolving and engagement based algorithms accelerating it? As I said, I don't see political content on TikTok but that's probably due to my engagement patters. People who are into these things, they likely see as much as they like. I do agree that social media can be a danger to the society though. IMHO, the solution to this shouldn't be suppression of speech or tune algorithms to favor any politics. After all, the world is never simple as the good vs the evil, even though every party tries really hard to depict themselves as the good ones. I think we would be better off with enforcing transparency. I would love if EU made TikTok open its algorithm and enforce review on the data that the algo runs on. [0] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-facebooks-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya-meta-owes-reparations-new-report/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...
- rightbyte 3y agoUntil "recently" it was only crackpots and dictators that even though about controlling social media, by definition -- you were one if you raised concerns. At least how I read the political climate. I guess it is good that awareness is raised, but I feel it is for the wrong reasons. There can be no major distinction between e.g. Facebook and TikTok.
- mypornaccount 3y agoI have noticed that a lot of people I follow on instagram who use tiktok all adopt the exact same opinion of $CONTROVERSIAL_TOPIC at roughly the same time.
- 1letterunixname 3y agoRelevant reads: Manufacturing Consent (1989) https://archive.org/details/pdfy-NekqfnoWIEuYgdZl https://archive.org/details/pdfy-NekqfnoWIEuYgdZl Persuasive Technology (1996,2002) https://archive.org/details/persuasivetechno0000fogg https://archive.org/details/persuasivetechno0000fogg
- psychlops 3y agoOld school. Is there a TikTok summary of these?
- rrr_oh_man 3y agoUnregulated Social Media is a toxic death spiral for human relations, just like unregulated capitalism is for humans and the environment we share with this planet's inhabitants.