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I've always said as a regular citizen I'm far less worried about Chinese spying than domestic commercial surveillance. I don't live in China so I care far less
by dmix 9mo ago
I've always said as a regular citizen I'm far less worried about Chinese spying than domestic commercial surveillance. I don't live in China so I care far less if they are collecting my social media metadata vs the stuff going into Five Eyes databases simply for crossing some 'foreign' pipe in the US/Europe/Canada.
Although I doubt much is different in practice with the US version as far as ICE is concerned. Much of this stuff ends up in commercial data brokers which the government buys, these TikTok posts are already public, private data was already subject to warrants, and TikTok has always deranked politically controversial stuff.
- mark_l_watson 9mo agoI agree. I removed TikTok apps from all my devices just before the handover happened. Too bad, a US startup I used work for had good luck with ads on the ‘old TikTok.’ I wonder how much damage this handoff will end up doing to small American companies.
- hsuduebc2 9mo agoNone. Ordinary user don't care about this stuff.
- JohnTHaller 9mo agoMost of my friends in their 20s have been complaining about their TikTok feeds being less engaging.
- rayiner 9mo agoOld Tik Tok really had my number. Ironically since Trump took it over, New Tik Tok has been feeding me a bunch of Gen Z socialist stuff I have no interest in.
- zdc1 9mo agoI just went though my old bookmarks one last time before deleting my account. The number of fun, enriching, and creative videos on that platform really puts YouTube to shame. It really feels like nothing good lasts forever these days, but they had a good run.
- hsuduebc2 9mo agoMaybe they switched to rage bait algorithm? I can't really use xitter because of this amazing feature.
- JohnTHaller 9mo agoI stopped using Twitter after getting constantly suggested to follow Musk and read his tweets along with all the crazy right-wing accounts he was promoting no matter how many times I clicked "Not interested in this post". It was clear it was purposeful.
- michaelmrose 9mo agoThey may care after some US citizens join the immigrants in concentration camps.
- hsuduebc2 9mo agoHuman memory is very short. I'm afraid convinience wins even when there is measurable negative output. Nobody talks about Cambridge analytica in these days anymore even it was scandal or a lot of people smoke even when this is hurting them.