Anonymous wrote:Wait, so it went offline a day before Trump takes office and the message on the site reads, “We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office. Please stay tuned!”

And this somehow isn’t a giant effort to manipulate us politically?

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Anonymous wrote:This is Jax, a singer who made it big starting on TikTok. Her song charted and played on pop radio all last year. Her perspective on why TT is being banned in food for thought. She brings facts.

Okay this could have happened on YouTube as well. Wasn’t Justin Bieber first noticed on a YouTube video? And that singer with the Patti Labelle “Patti pies” singing its praises became a backup singer because of his YouTube breakout fandom singing about the pies. What was unique about tic toc that is making people lose their minds when there is concern about national security. I honestly don’t get it and nobody has been able to help me understand the angst.

The national security concerns are way overblown. If they were worried about China having access to information they would ban their shopping apps too. The olds in Congress don't understand any of this. This is about American social media companies not wanting the competition. And it is TikTok.

Anonymous wrote:The thing is every single site is collecting data. This one included. China is going to do what exactly with the fact the algorithm figured out that I have ADHD, I like puppy videos, and I like videos about corporate workplaces. Why does that matter?

Anonymous wrote:Wait, so it went offline a day before Trump takes office and the message on the site reads, “We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office. Please stay tuned!”

And this somehow isn’t a giant effort to manipulate us politically?

Anonymous wrote:I find the whole complete inability to explain why this is a risk when Meta and Google (whose parent company Alphabet is CHINESE) don't pose the same risks.

This reads like an insane amount of lobbying push and a threat to fund challengers to anyone who refused to agree. It is the most logical answer compared because the nebulous "national security" concern argument falls apart when our data is being sold to the Chinese by competitors like Meta.

I will miss the cooking videos, the home repair videos, the videos making fun of the cooking videos and home repair videos. I will miss the dances and silliness. I will miss feeling like my feed actually reflected my interests unlike Facebook which is an abandoned mall full of ridiculous AI posts and ads trying to sell me cars like the pack pages of a newspaper in the 1980's.

I imagine Trump will probably get it back online, but will screw with it to his advantage...which is sort of exactly what Mark Warner said the national security concern was...propaganda.

The whole thing seems like a very calculated end run to get rid of a competitor through lobbying...which I guess isn't illegal?

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Anonymous wrote:This is Jax, a singer who made it big starting on TikTok. Her song charted and played on pop radio all last year. Her perspective on why TT is being banned in food for thought. She brings facts.

Okay this could have happened on YouTube as well. Wasn’t Justin Bieber first noticed on a YouTube video? And that singer with the Patti Labelle “Patti pies” singing its praises became a backup singer because of his YouTube breakout fandom singing about the pies. What was unique about tic toc that is making people lose their minds when there is concern about national security. I honestly don’t get it and nobody has been able to help me understand the angst.

The national security concerns are way overblown. If they were worried about China having access to information they would ban their shopping apps too. The olds in Congress don't understand any of this. This is about American social media companies not wanting the competition. And it is TikTok.

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Anonymous wrote:Unless this was a source of income
for you, no one should really be struggling with this. Use the time to cultivate a new hobby. Even my teens don’t get the big deal.

Lots of people make money on tik tok.

Anonymous wrote:I find the whole complete inability to explain why this is a risk when Meta and Google (whose parent company Alphabet is CHINESE) don't pose the same risks.

This reads like an insane amount of lobbying push and a threat to fund challengers to anyone who refused to agree. It is the most logical answer compared because the nebulous "national security" concern argument falls apart when our data is being sold to the Chinese by competitors like Meta.

I will miss the cooking videos, the home repair videos, the videos making fun of the cooking videos and home repair videos. I will miss the dances and silliness. I will miss feeling like my feed actually reflected my interests unlike Facebook which is an abandoned mall full of ridiculous AI posts and ads trying to sell me cars like the pack pages of a newspaper in the 1980's.

I imagine Trump will probably get it back online, but will screw with it to his advantage...which is sort of exactly what Mark Warner said the national security concern was...propaganda.

The whole thing seems like a very calculated end run to get rid of a competitor through lobbying...which I guess isn't illegal?

Anonymous wrote:Youtube Shorts is very similar.

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Anonymous wrote:This is Jax, a singer who made it big starting on TikTok. Her song charted and played on pop radio all last year. Her perspective on why TT is being banned in food for thought. She brings facts.

Okay this could have happened on YouTube as well. Wasn’t Justin Bieber first noticed on a YouTube video? And that singer with the Patti Labelle “Patti pies” singing its praises became a backup singer because of his YouTube breakout fandom singing about the pies. What was unique about tic toc that is making people lose their minds when there is concern about national security. I honestly don’t get it and nobody has been able to help me understand the angst.

The national security concerns are way overblown. If they were worried about China having access to information they would ban their shopping apps too. The olds in Congress don't understand any of this. This is about American social media companies not wanting the competition. And it is TikTok.