Bytedance dice que no venderá #TikTok en EEUU; por ende, se cerrará.
BREAKING: Reuters reports that TikTok's owner ByteDance would prefer to 'shut down' its app in the US rather than sell it if all legal options are exhausted
Good for them for standing their ground and not caving to pressure to sell.
Weird situation all around, as the ban really doesn't mean anything with over 200 days to appeal and no action taken to keep American people from using TikTok in the meantime.
Side note EFF has been at the front of this fight forever & led the fight for HTTPS everywhere. Love them big time and best source for related details as well as privacy tools for everyone from basic users to 1337 infosec boffins! https://ssd.eff.org/https://www.eff.org/pages/tools
I wonder if much of the U.S. campus unrest about #Gaza might be deliberately whipped up by #TikTok and other social media algorithms to soften support for #Biden among young voters.
(My own position is that #Hamas is utterly responsible for the October 7th atrocities. However, #Netanyahu has stupidly fallen into their trap. #IDF is creating orders of magnitude more terrorists than they're killing. Today's Gaza children will grow up with seething hatred and thirst for revenge.)
@ArtSmart I think people of all ages and backgrounds around the world see fascist Likud committing a horrific genocide against a population comprised of a huge percentage of children. People are horrified while Joe Biden has BELLIGERENTLY and persistently armed and funded that effort since the beginning til this very day. And BLOCKED ceasefire efforts. Biden's support is "softening" entirely because of what he is doing.
@ArtSmart Nah. People are fed up with backing a genocide. We don't need TikTok propaganda to tell us what we can see with our own eyes and hear with our own ears. We don't need propaganda to know that Genocide Joe has stood by Bibi the Butcher and provided him the weapons to massacre Palestinians.
Not everything has to connect back to a Russian or Chinese conspiracy. Sometimes awful people are held accountable for doing awful things.
So, anyone know how this ban is going to be enforced? Or attempted to be enforced?
I'm guessing government forced removal from mobile app stores, but then what about people who already have the app? Or who side-load it on their Android phones. Or use a web app?
@matthew a US ban is better than a US purchase, though, for a perspective outside of the USA. Having the US control all the mainstream social media is not diversity...
It seems like #tiktok uses #HTTP to distribute its videos. What type of heavy lift might it be to create a #fediverse alternative in the wake of the #tiktokban? Asking for my friends. Please RT.
@stux Every Chinese product that has the ability to connect to the internet by default is a surveillance tool. Me personally I never use software or hardware produced in China.
The last time when I was there customs officers required to unlock my phone and connect some device to it and I am completely unaware of what they did to it. Luckily little did they know that it was my second phone, where no personal or financial data was stored. I ditch that phone immediately afterward.
The #TikTok ban -- which will likely face years of litigation and may be ultimately turned down by U.S. courts (as it should be) on first amendment and other grounds, reminds me of another dark episode of bipartisan madness decades ago.
Back in the 1980s in particular, "satanic cult" scares spread across the country, the media, and politicians of both parties. Innumerable lives were ruined as innocent people were imprisoned for long periods based on much the same nonsense as during the Salem Witch Trials of the 17th century. The lack of actual evidence in both cases didn't stop the panic.
While the TikTok ban shouldn't force innocent people into prison or result in them being burned at the stake, many lives that are dependent on income related to TikTok would be negatively affected, and a popular communications medium for a vast number of Americans would be cut off -- while the lack of actual evidence to support such drastic actions is glaring.
There is also much hypocrisy in play. Even as President Biden signed the ban, his campaign apparently plans to continue using TikTok! Not a good look Joe. Not good at all. That's the kind of thing we expect from Trump. You're better than that. -L
@koteisaev Show the evidence! There is NONE relating to TikTok that I've ever seen. On the other hand, look at the dangerous disinformation spewing from Twitter/X! That's the REAL danger, not China!
TikTok's lack of transparency about what data they suck out of user's phones - not just the TikTok app - was asking for the banhammer.
The fact that they STILL won't disclose what data is uploaded, even with this ban, tells you all you need to know about how badly the app violates user privacy.
My bet is they collect & send text msgs, contacts, emails, app logs, pwd hashes, other social details.
@shalien I don't use TikTok anymore. What's the opposite of the “royal we”? The “common my”? That's how I was using it.
Even if I don't use TikTok, they shouldn't be allowed to collect Bluetooth data, which exposes the identities and locations of everyone in a room with even just a single TikTok user.
Broadly, apps not specifically distributed for the primary advertised purpose of location tracking shouldn't have this permission, but apps owned by governments that use extrajudicial task forces to hunt down Muslims especially shouldn't have this permission.
@lety What you"re asking is, that peoples actually read and try to understand what are permissions required for on mobile devices and how they can be used.
But funny videos are better than a few lines of text, no ?