On hyvä asia, että TikTok kielletään. Jostain syystä vasta-argumenttina on aina whataboutismia; ”Miksi Metaa ei kielletä?”. Mutta muut somet eivät ole syy, miksi TikTokia ei pitäisi kieltää.
Toivottavasti banniin menee myös X, Instagram ja Facebook, minun puolestani koko poliittisesti ja kaupallisesti kieroutunut some, mutta TikTok on hyvä alku.
Mie tuun vastustamaan kieltoa loppuun saakka, koska valtion ei tässä pidä päättää mitä somealustaa mie käytän päivittäin.
Jos mie haluan katella tiktokkia, niin sit mie kattelen. Toisekseen ei se lyhytvideoliikenne mihinkää katoa. Se lapsia aivopesevä kontentti vaan siirtyis Instagram reeleihi ja/tai Youtube Shorts
@rolle Ite oon sen verta muinaisjäärä, etten oikein kykene keksimään mitään järkevää syytä TikTokin kaltaiselle palvelulle.
En tiedä, että kuinka paljon puuttuu, että TikTokista tulee videoiden 4chan/8chan (mitä niitä nyt onkaaan) - kaikessa nihilistisyydessään ja pahuudessaan.
Mitä tulee näihin muihin kaupallisiin some-palveluihin ja niiden manipulointi-algoritmeihin, niin ei se olis mikään huono idea pistää niitä tulilinjalle.
Youtube on kyllä ongelmallinen. Siellä on todella paljon paskaa, mutta ite löydän sieltä myös jonkun verran hyvääkin. AInut, että sen monipulointi-algoritmit ei periaatteessa eroa kovinkaan suuresti noista somen algoritmeista.
@eff Yeah, I don't think anything of value would be lost. TikTok is just a short form video platform that doesn't respect privacy at all. And the "get information" argument is just a stupid excuse by content creators with a lack of talent who see their livelihood in danger if they need to move to another platform.
@eff yeah this is pissing me off as I’m one of the larger cybersecurity creators on TikTok at 368,000 followers. It’s still how everyone finds my mastodon, twitch, and soon YouTube. It’s still also 80% of my revenue for my content creation LLC between shop and content payouts.
I’ve been on the platform since the pandemic started and any concerns we have about TikTok were already said about Meta and others
Last week #TikTok published their second DSA Transparency Report. https://www.tiktok.com/transparency/en/dsa-transparency/ The first one covered just one month (09/23) the second Oct-Dec 2023. But now that there are two reports we can compare some numbers.
It seems that, despite the increasing numbers of monthly active users (+6.4M) the number of human moderators speaking many European languages decreased.
I think, that's concerning given that we have elections upcoming that require specific knowledge of each country.
European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen has hinted that banning TikTok in the EU is not off the table.
Speaking at a debate ahead of the bloc’s 2024 election, von der Leyen said that the Commission was “the very first institution worldwide to ban TikTok on our corporate phones,” reports Politico, adding: “We know exactly the danger of TikTok.”
I recently saw a conversation between two people I respect that ended poorly. This being a social platform, shortage of mutual understanding is not surprising. Most of the time, I just back away slowly, but this time, the topic is important enough, and I think I can see a framing that can help make conversations about it less antagonistic.
Global social networks with algorithmic feeds make #disinfo 10x worse.
A lot of people underestimate how bad it is, for the same reason people underestimated COVID: humans have no intuition for exponents, mechanical metaphors like weight and velocity really don't work for epidemiology.
In a race of exponents, a 0.1% advantage takes only 700 iterations to grow into a 2x advantage. On a platform with a billion users, a 0.1% difference can make one narrative overtake another in hours. 6/
The main threats to democracy are #war and #disinfo. Mitigating the risk of war has never been as straightforward as today: arm #Ukraine, arm #Taiwan, and let their resistance deter fascist empires from invading their neighbors.
Disinfo is a harder problem. Like cancer, it exploits freedom of speech and other essential aspects of democracy to turn a society against itself. Like with cancer, any treatment has to walk a careful balance to eradicate the disease without killing the host. 5/
I think it's very telling the #US gov't added a way for TikTok/#ByteDance to weasel out of the ban if they decide to sell. Yeah, as if!
But OK. Assuming their "plan" works and #TikTok is sold. Now what?
Would they turn TikTok into a #privacy-respecting #FreeSoftware, fixing all the issues they like to complain about? Or would it just remain the same shitty #proprietary app with the only difference being your data is collected by a different country?
I don't use #TikTok. Don't even have an account. Can't stand the app. But this thing with TikTok in the US is grossing me out. It's one thing to ban the thing but quite another to force the co to sell the platform to a US company. That's like a land grab, even if money is exchanged. This is going to put a chill on business relations not just with China but with companies globally, because they'll be wondering, "will I be the next Bytedance? Will they try to grab my company too?"
@thepoliticalcat that's quite a different thing, no? You set up the co from the start this way. Anyway I am not familiar with Malaysian business law so I can't comment. But with this situation the US is literally trying to seize TikTok assets. Ban it outright, fine. But you want their stuff to? Reprehensible.
Kongres & pemerintah Amerika Serikat memutuskan untuk melarang #tiktok beroperasi di negara mereka, jika holding company mereka, Bytedance, menolak menjual perusahaan media sosial tersebut ke pihak lokal. Apa yang mendasarkan pelarangan itu? Apa yang membuat #tiktok begitu berharga?🤔😐🤔. Ayo, follow akun #tiktok saya di 👉 https://www.tiktok.com/