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JasonZep t1_iu880fe wrote
Hasn’t it been know from the beginning this was a CCP company tracking people?
Modsda3 t1_iu8lq30 wrote
ending them in the US was the ONE trump idea i was onboard with
K1nsey6 t1_iu9ixlz wrote
He wanted to give it's ad revenue and tracking info to a US company, not save us from China.
mrbaryonyx t1_iu9qh1u wrote
exactly, that company was Oracle
K1nsey6 t1_iu9ue2k wrote
It was Oracle AND Walmart. A retail company's wet dream
the_blue_arrow_ t1_iu8n5rk wrote
This and insulin prices, 0 for 2 though. I kinda expected him to ban daylight saving time too.
Repulsive-Owl2833 t1_iu9t7to wrote
instead it’s permanent
Daimakku1 t1_iu9ffqt wrote
Same, but dont give him too much credit. He only wanted to ban Tiktok because Tiktok kids trolled him by buying all the stadium seats for his campaigns and made it seem like they were going to be huge, and they turned out to be half empty. He got butthurt and wanted to ban it. Nothing the guy ever did was for the good of anyone but himself.
flybydenver t1_iu9jbar wrote
Yes the DOD even issued a statement saying as much.
m_toyman t1_iucpf2d wrote
But he still HAD THOUSANDS show up compared to who “won”. There is A LOT he has been correct about. Sorry but true.
akmjolnir t1_iu9mc8h wrote
No one cares except security-types. The kids need to cure ALS, or whatever.
Street_Following6911 t1_iu7yk4c wrote
Will people still use it?yeah. Will they care? No. Does it matter? I unno.
-Bluedreams t1_iu82z3x wrote
I'm one of the only people in my friend group who don't have it. Every time people ask why, I tell them because of this reason and they always just shrug it off.
People genuinely do not care
Street_Following6911 t1_iu83hjz wrote
People are conditioned to giving away their data. It's free it's fun it's what's popular. I personally don't really like the short form content but I'm probably not the demographic anyways. There are plenty of sites still out there I can look at short vids of people being idiots.
KamikazeWaterm3lon t1_iuc0j1u wrote
I mean. If you're American you were already assigned a number at birth. We carry monitoring equipment in our pocket. Big brother already has everything even if you try and keep your data private. I'm all for privacy but at that point, why even bother?
Street_Following6911 t1_iuc0yug wrote
Big brother and Uncle Sam are always looking over your shoulder. Then you got cousin Elon and Jeff and Mark. Do we really need more? Lol
KamikazeWaterm3lon t1_iuc13be wrote
Not at all. But shit its all there and nothing I can do cam get it back.
ColinHenrichon t1_iu98n2u wrote
I think it’s because we are already being tracked by American tech giants as well. Google, Meta, even Apple is guilty. People make a big deal about China doing it because it’s China, but turn a blind eye when it’s America because it’s America. The CCP can know what they want, I have nothing to hide, I’ll never go to China ever. I’m not saying we should ignore it, we shouldn’t, all I’m saying is that’s probably why many don’t care. It hasn’t effected their daily lives to negatively (yet) and what difference does it make if China or American tech giants track you. Either way you are the product they are selling.
thenerdal t1_iu8gvfp wrote
I'm one of the people.
Current operating systems have permissions now. Tiktok has no permissions on my end and I don't think there's been an app that has bypassed the new permission system.
Also, I read the original source to the article and all they got was the ip location, which is very vague and pretty much wrong sometimes.
So it's not that big of an issue like people here think.
0wed12 t1_iu8d1zq wrote
From a non-american PoV, what's the difference between TikTok and Apple or Google who have their own privacy issues and have been caught selling your datas to the highest bidder?
americans are so conditionned to scapegoat their own problems to another country while their own privacy is as solid as a broken glass.
5474524 t1_iu94gus wrote
Because I'd rather have an American tech company own all of my personal and sensitive data than an antagonistic, Russia/North Korea/Iran-aligned country that we could potentially go to war with within the next century. In the United States, tech companies are privately-owned and largely answer to themselves, only really answering to the United States when they're up to some shady shit - if that. In China, companies are effectively treated as a branch of the CCP at the end of the day. They aren't independent companies in the traditional sense. If the CCP wants information, these companies will gladly hand it over, because it would be against the law not to. You can't point at Apple and say "this company IS the United States government", but you can do that to a Chinese-owned company and be right about it.
The terrorism implications with the latter are scary as shit. It's not just browsing history and harmless data, it's the profile that you can put together of people using that data to allow you to eventually connect the dots to the truly dangerous information, like social security numbers, passwords, medical data, financial information, et cetera. If you have the personal information of every citizen of a foreign country, and you're able to build enough of a profile off of provided information that you can do some truly dangerous things with it, then you effectively have that country by the balls - it just becomes a matter of when/if you squeeze.
seattlesk8er t1_iua3jzm wrote
That American tech company is going to sell your data to the highest bidder.
brienzee t1_iubtmmt wrote
People don’t get the fact that all this info is already openly available to China through American companies. People don’t give a shit about their data they just wanna push China is bad. I’m not saying China is good or bad but most people’s argument against tiltok is pretty disingenuous just parroting American propaganda, TikTok is bad because it takes away market share from all the American companies that want your data, end of story.
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benito_fusilloni t1_iubw6ej wrote
People also don’t understand that China doesn’t give two shits about them and is too busy lifting their citizens out of poverty to care about the doom scrolling of the average American plummeting towards poverty.
America will sell it any way they can though.
RealPain43 t1_iubzfgy wrote
What could be harmless to you now could be dangerous to you in the distant future. We already see how old Tweets get people into trouble. You might not be a person in power now but 10 years down the line you might have some successful position and if your location data was showing you hanging out on street corners in red light districts back when you were younger then that could be used to frame you by bad actors.
asdfafdsg t1_iu8yqu1 wrote
There is none. Now watch the downvotes roll in from xenophobic idiots with a black and white view of the world
benito_fusilloni t1_iubw9sq wrote
They don’t even have black and white views because that would still require them to form opinions. Their views are skewed red white and blue.
rosesandhennessy t1_iu92sf0 wrote
Yep, I personally don’t care.
flybydenver t1_iu9jnt8 wrote
“We don’t even care, whether or not we care.”
Daimakku1 t1_iu9fx01 wrote
People do not care as long as you entertain them. The app could literally say "We are going to spy your every move and every thing you do on your phone" and people would still agree to install it if they know its an entertaining app.
Apathy is why things are so sh*t in so many aspects of life.
arexfung t1_iu8z4vx wrote
Depends. Do young soldiers have it on their phones while out on patrol somewhere?
Street_Following6911 t1_iu9jrny wrote
It's banned from US military forces.
arexfung t1_iu9u1dx wrote
You think they don’t use it anyway? What the fuck else are they gonna do in the desert other than scroll
Street_Following6911 t1_iu9udgx wrote
I didn't make the rule. I have no idea how they would enforce it.
ShakespearesFrench t1_iu8gfg3 wrote
Never forget…https://archive.ph/2020.07.12-074312/https://imgur.com/a/AIIbbPs
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kragmoor t1_iuazby4 wrote
a major tech company doing major tech company things, the only reason this has its own article is because it's a foreign company instead of one offering its data up wholesale to the us government
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745395 t1_iu85c4m wrote
Oh no, big bad red communist socialist evil China. Way scarier than America is doing to Americans by way of Facebook, Twitter, Google, Amazon, and the entire US government. oh nooooooooo!
mrbaryonyx t1_iu9qs2c wrote
zoomers when the thing they don't like is doing something bad: "oh my god this needs to be cancelled!"
zoomers when the thing they like is doing something bad: "who cares the american government does bad things too!"
StreetCornVendor t1_iu864ro wrote
So it’s okay to let the notoriously evil country continue their surveillance of foreigners.
Pfandfreies_konto t1_iu8e78j wrote
I think his point is: the same measures should be taken for domestic entities. It's bad no matter who does it.
goalpost_mover t1_iu8xbxz wrote
Yeah, but this article is about TikTok. Whataboutisms only deflect from the topic.
>It's bad no matter who does it.
Agree. I'd hope the CCP shill above you says the same thing about TikTok when Facebook is mentioned.
Oh wait... 😲
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Edit: And downvotes aren't gonna change the truth, son.
January28thSixers t1_iu8epbw wrote
I don't live in China so I don't really give a fuck if they're tracking me. Google or Facebook are here and report to the American government, where I actually live.
Lille7 t1_iu8jf9f wrote
Are you talking about america or china?
StreetCornVendor t1_iuazu92 wrote
Definitely not talking about the one you typed that comment from.
benito_fusilloni t1_iubwlf9 wrote
Which country are we talking about? You’re going to have to be more specific. The one fighting a proxy war that can’t be one or the one shockingly pulling citizens out of poverty?
StreetCornVendor t1_iucb2vo wrote
starts dry humping you
80sCrackBaby t1_iu7yuc6 wrote
its Chinese spyware and is still used by millions
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what the fuck is going on in America
distractionfactory t1_iu7zcqu wrote
We spent too much money on learning how to market products that are bad for people and making sure schools cranked out people susceptible to marketing strategies that make you think paying money for poison is a good way to exercise your freedom.
And now we wonder why telling people that something is bad for them isn't enough to get them to stop using it.
isthisafinsta t1_iu97rer wrote
life is hard and shitty and I want to enjoy and easy way to watch cats and people dancing or helping teach me new things.
Our society is pathologically, insidiously lonely. We’ll take whatever we can get.
honsense t1_iu9k5i3 wrote
Maybe society wouldn't be so lonely if people weren't being atomized by apps designed to keep you glued to the screen.
thenerdal t1_iua4no0 wrote
You're on Reddit.
seattlesk8er t1_iua3qed wrote
It's a symptom, not the cause.
twisty125 t1_iubvt2e wrote
No, my life is lonely and shitty without it Mr. "I'm super duper smart"
Tavionnf t1_iu96ys3 wrote
Most just don't care. Try to talk to them about it and they will think you're paranoid.
MonkeyCube t1_iu8dpjp wrote
Self-interest is beating out group-cohesion and self-protection in just an absolute banger of a 1-v-2 fight.
lunarNex t1_iu9oxkr wrote
Idiots addicted to social media and internet attention.
Gberg888 t1_iu8a63b wrote
We care more about bouncing titties in some dancing hottie than the protection of our data...
Jhendo1526 t1_iu8btrj wrote
Attention span of goldfish. The idea of 15-30 second videos was absolutely genius. Keeps people hooked.
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thenerdal t1_iu8jtnd wrote
They do have good ideas in the app though.
You can download videos and it gives you their tag. Never been done before.
You can find the original video by going to the audio source usually, never been done before.
You can Duo and stitch, I don't think this has been done before.
You can use a lot of popular songs in your videos without worrying about it being taken down.
Then you have the bonuses of filters, quick editing and a great algorithm.
Imo this makes it the best video service.
SiNDiLeX t1_iu7z6gg wrote
What isn’t is a shorter list.
Rageinus t1_iu85wem wrote
I have family that will ask "oh did you see that thing on tiktok?" I'm like "no, but china sees all of your shit don't send me that shit."
subdep t1_iu9idao wrote
Yeah, never have and never will install tik tok.
akmjolnir t1_iu9mei1 wrote
Maybe the Apple and Play stores should pull it?
Kahemoto t1_iu9zf15 wrote
Everything you do tracks you. Put your debit/credit card into the Walmart app and then use your card at the store. The app will update to tell you what you bought even though you didn’t put your info in at the register
80sCrackBaby t1_iuc03fb wrote
there is a diffrence between walmart
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and the CCP
bildramer t1_iu8jug7 wrote
Trump wanted to ban it, and Trump is bad, so banning it is bad, so it didn't get banned. It's that simple.
goalpost_mover t1_iu8xl40 wrote
Even when Trump is right, he's wrong. My mommy told me so! 😛
Blksheep_Trading t1_iu80f7e wrote
The TOS says they re going to track you... put it on your phone and find out.
ButtFuckingGermans t1_iu8paor wrote
Only Google is allowed to do that
JitterySuperCoffee t1_iu9oxeh wrote
And snap, and every other app god damn app available if IOS 16 is to be believed.
unlock0 t1_iuac8mm wrote
And facebook/Instagram/meta
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the_disco_sloth t1_iu9l694 wrote
Aaaah, I was wondering my TikTok feed is aptly curated for “I never leave my house” humor.
No, seriously. I don’t, and it is.
saanity t1_iu81v38 wrote
Cool. How about they do the same for Facebook? I'm not buying the manufactured media xenophobia disguised as privacy concerns. If we actually care about our privacy, we need to get rid of all collecting of private data.
Weird_Cantaloupe2757 t1_iu8oh4a wrote
It's not xenophobia, the CCP is a hostile foreign power, which makes their spying a national security concern in a way that spying by domestic companies just doesn't.
ButtFuckingGermans t1_iu8pi14 wrote
When the NSA spies on other nations: 👍
When other nations do the same: 😡😡😡
Weird_Cantaloupe2757 t1_iu8q1qk wrote
Uhh... yeah? How else would that work? It's information warfare, so they need to hit the other guy, while also doing what they can to keep them from hitting us. I'm not sure what kind of point you are even trying to make here.
whosthisguythinkheis t1_iuckult wrote
The point is that privacy should work FOR us if it is to work at all.
The fact that TikTok can do this type of surveillance shows that the US was happy to let it happen when they were in control of the info.
The US and it’s social media companies enabled this kind of exploitation in our phones and our tech infrastructure somehow completely blindsided to the fact that any other country to exploit it too.
Now they have and suddenly it’s a big deal.
ButtFuckingGermans t1_iu8utk1 wrote
We are at war?
Weird_Cantaloupe2757 t1_iu8vf5w wrote
Not officially, but from the perspective of the intelligence agencies at least, we absolutely are. It is a much quieter type of war, but it's war nonetheless.
ButtFuckingGermans t1_iu8xyuf wrote
Damn. Didn't know the US was also at war with their own people.
benito_fusilloni t1_iubyzsd wrote
Well, you see, we’re using Ukrainians to fight our proxy war so we’re not actually having to get our hands dirty so we can claim innocence.
saanity t1_iu8si07 wrote
I have no love of China but if you aren't seeing a pattern of constant anti Chinese news from the media, your aren't paying attention. Bombarding news feeds with articles like this are how Americans opinions are swayed.
f_crick t1_iu9afvz wrote
It’s a totalitarian state with no free press that persecutes millions of their own people. The press reporting on their crimes doesn’t mean one should support them.
Alberiman t1_iubwsfu wrote
And if they didn't have this app they'd just buy it from american companies instead. I guess it doesn't count as supporting totalitarian regimes if the regime puts money into american bank accounts?
Weird_Cantaloupe2757 t1_iu8v4t7 wrote
Because the global political situation has changed. We have seen how much harm Russia has been able to do to the west with disinformation, and they showed us with Ukraine that these types of hostilities need to be taken more seriously. We have a similarly adversarial relationship with China, and the last 6 years has demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that we can't just ignore it and try to just wallpaper over it with trade.
If anything, we were seeing too little anti-CCP news before out of a naive hope that capitalism would eventually resolve these issues, but the amount of success Russia has had in subverting us shows that we ignore it at our own peril.
K1nsey6 t1_iu9j8s5 wrote
It's how they manufacture consent for their war crimes
JmacTheGreat t1_iu9ljzm wrote
> war crimes
China literally has modern day concentration camps running, and people in this thread are trying to say not to be too mean to them…
Edit: this user literally believes Russia is the heroes that are defending their rights in Ukraine instead of massacring innocent civilians lol - not worth anyones time to keep engaging
mrbaryonyx t1_iu9r1rf wrote
no no you dont understand, the fact that journalists report on those means the media is trying to brainwash you
the right approach american journalists should take with Chinese atrocities is to not talk about them at all! you know, like Chinese journalists do!
K1nsey6 t1_iu9vbsu wrote
But concentration camps are OK when they are called for profit prisons in the US, right? Where states are REQUIRED under contract to have a specific level of occupancy, that disproportionately target minority communities.
Most of what you THINK you know about China is manufactured for the benefit of US imperialism.
But sure, China bad.
JmacTheGreat t1_iua2361 wrote
A side-by-side comparison of twitter images, through an imgur link, is a laughable way to prove your point.
And while the US prison system is bad and needs reform, comparison to literal internment camps is extremely ignorant.
K1nsey6 t1_iuaj1xj wrote
You are using western media to debunk claims of western media manipulation? That's the laughable part
JmacTheGreat t1_iuajhmc wrote
Wikipedia is literally peer reviewed and constant checked and rechecked for the sake of accuracy… You are trying to compare it to like CNN/Fox lmao.
You sound like one of those people who are convinced Russia is the heroes of the Ukraine war because thats what “real media” is saying.
Edit: Damn Im right lmao
K1nsey6 t1_iuarma4 wrote
I never claimed Russia was a hero, I said Russia is defending itself FROM US imperialism.
JmacTheGreat t1_iuaxer5 wrote
By blowing up Ukraine hospitals and flattening civilian cars with their tanks.
Such bravery
mrbaryonyx t1_iu9qw1h wrote
oh great the tankies are here
asdfafdsg t1_iu8z59d wrote
Then limit usage of the app in sensitive areas (military bases, etc) and call it a day. Everyone spies on everyone else, I'm not buying the narrative this is something regular people need to be afraid of because warmongering "think tanks" in DC said so.
benito_fusilloni t1_iubz13d wrote
As opposed to a hostile domestic power…
Alberiman t1_iubwlfb wrote
Oh please, like China can't just buy the exact same data from american companies? It's not like there's strict rules on this shit or how we store it, there's 0 incentive to police a Chinese company when we won't protect even a shred of privacy already
LinaVak t1_iu8ghpw wrote
Exactly. TikTok s doing what all others do. Let’s fight for privacy from all of them.
beware_of_redditor t1_iu825yp wrote
It’s funny tiktok gets the short end of the stick for this. Has no ever heard of google?
The amount of data and digital footprints they have on individuals is incomprehensible.
Also, especially in the US, if you have a smart phone or acess to the internet, you can be surveilled (tracked) very easily. By the government, companies/orgs, third parties, hackers… Anytime you’re out your phone is pinging cell towers, it’s tracking and storing your movement. If one looked hard enough, they can (literally) find out how many times and at what times a phones flashlight feature was turned on. TikTok isn’t helping the situation but it’s hardly anything new. Maybe people are worried it’s the Chinese, but I don’t want anyone spying on me, domestic or foreign.
Honest_Palpitation91 t1_iu84hqp wrote
This right here. TikTok is being made a scape goat as all the us companies does the same shit.
Red_Rabbit_Red t1_iu8etcc wrote
It's because Americans are afraid of anything and everything we're told to be afraid of. We're so obsessed with the great boogeyman in the east that we're ignoring the fact that the call is coming from inside the house.
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spidersnake t1_iu8g4li wrote
Calling a spying tool a spying tool is not "anti-Chinese propaganda"
anotherdumbcaucasian t1_iu8in71 wrote
Tiananmen Square Massacre
ButtFuckingGermans t1_iu8pqam wrote
Credit score -99999999999
😭😭😭😭😭
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comfortablybum t1_iu9of4s wrote
These companies are using the data to sell ads to us. People think that's fine. They are also answerable to our laws and regulators. China using it to spy and manipulate politics is a different beast. The whataboutism contrarian "well Google does it too" is not a new or helpful take on this. Maybe American's fear of China collecting data can push public opinion to pass laws that will also effect Google, Apple, Facebook, Verizon, and all the other tech companies tracking us.
koolbro2012 t1_iu8it7z wrote
I'd say meta gets more hate than anyone
Weird_Cantaloupe2757 t1_iu8ooce wrote
The government is more concerned about it because the CCP is an openly hostile foreign power, and them spying on Americans presents a threat to national security that Google and Facebook just don't.
I don't want anyone spying on me either, but there is a very good and justifiable reason for the government to be more concerned about TikTok.
asdfafdsg t1_iu8zxvn wrote
I bet you thought those imaginary WMDs in Iraq were a very good and justifiable reason to erode your freedoms after 9/11 huh?
Weird_Cantaloupe2757 t1_iu9060v wrote
Nice whataboutism you've got there
Boreras t1_iu9956p wrote
It's incredibly funny that when you're told you're not immune to propaganda, you immediately resort to "whataboutism". It's just a propaganda term to immediately shut down all critical thought and any context.
Imagine trying to tell someone they're in a cult and after every clear overlap with other cults they start crying whataboutism.
Weird_Cantaloupe2757 t1_iu9c2gs wrote
So do you think that the CCP isn't an authoritarian regime with the long term vision of taking down the west in order to become the dominant world superpower? I'm not a fan of US foreign policy, but if you think that China's vision for the world isn't worse by at least an order of magnitude, you are not paying attention. This was obvious to me 20 years ago, and I have felt the whole time since then that the US media was way too soft on the CCP, so I see the current situation as us responding to the wake up call we were given with Trump, Brexit, and Ukraine in recognizing that we can't just ignore the fact that our adversaries are adversaries anymore.
Boreras t1_iuakr68 wrote
> vision of taking down the west in order to become the dominant world superpower
No, and it's pretty easy to see why because they're not constantly organising coups, installing puppet regimes, drone striking half the world, have military bases on every corner on every street, dictating what and how other countries are allowed to trade, spying on everyone, etc.
The problem is I am paying attention and looking past the enormous propaganda hose aimed at us here in the west. Any self reflecting look at the past fifty years and the above paragraph shows that Chinese foreign policy is orders of magnitudes more peaceful than the US. And you can look at how weaker countries like France, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Israel and Great Britain behave to see it's not determined by relative power either, it's ideological. China is in a better position but even compared to those weaker five its behaviour is so much better.
I mean the biggest conflict China has had in the past fifty years is a rounding error for the American rape of Vietnam, which would've been classified as one of the greatest crimes against humanity that century, if not outright genocide, had another country done it.
There is this enormous ideological pressure in the west to justify its monstrous behaviour. You desperately need others to be monstrous too, because that's been the Western policy for the past five hundred years.
> we can't just ignore the fact that our adversaries are adversaries anymore
My and your adversaries are the fucking colonial empires that have raped the planet for five centuries. Stop identifying with your monstrous masters and start caring for your equal brothers and sisters.
Besides the result is not going to be the a world dictatorship under one country as we've had the last centuries but a multipolar world. China is not able to become that dominant, plus India, Nigeria, will develop too.
Weird_Cantaloupe2757 t1_iuamrw2 wrote
Guys, I found Winnie the Pooh's Reddit account
gripofmilk t1_iu7ywva wrote
How Vine messed up and went bankrupt is still crazy to me.
saevuswinds t1_iu8a42a wrote
Didn’t it get bought by Twitter, who nerfed it? I could be misremembering.
Mront t1_iu8g0o9 wrote
They nerfed it because it was going bankrupt
Gropah t1_iu8igqo wrote
From what I hear, TikTok has a very good algorithm/AI to suggest new videos. Plus, Vine began in 2013, and in those days, mobile data plans weren't as big yet (in some parts of the world).
thenerdal t1_iu8jwul wrote
Vine never monetized so it failed. Tiktok did from the start I believe.
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anotherdumbcaucasian t1_iu8ii6d wrote
Why does anyone leave gps on when they're not using it?
thenerdal t1_iua4x98 wrote
Phones don't work that way anymore. GPS is only enabled per app basis now.
And this article isn't about GPS but Ip location, which is vague and sometimes wrong.
My home ip would tell you I'm in downtown Houston when I'm not.
bleeeeghh t1_iu9s2tn wrote
Because google shows me a cool map of places I've been to in the past
Kaionacho t1_iu844fe wrote
So like google, Facebook, twitter and all the other platforms? We should investigate and punish them harshly too, but we dont because they are "the good guys"
asdfafdsg t1_iu908pn wrote
This is what happens when you're raised on a diet of Disney morality and Marvel movies. China bad, USA good, no room for nuance.
[deleted] t1_iu7y4hq wrote
It is Chinese spyware. Frankly, so is Reddit so make sure you keep that VPN on.
danivus t1_iu873gf wrote
Bro just because Tencent owns a minority share in Reddit doesn't make it spyware. They own shares in a shitload of companies.
ButtFuckingGermans t1_iu8pwc1 wrote
Yup. Tencent just gave reddit money for no reason but to make profit because reddit is very popular and makes lots of money
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Safe_Ad5951 t1_iu7zlh6 wrote
So the thing that our intelligence agencies warned us would happen…is happening. I mean, it’s almost perfect: using our unending narcissism and need for attention to get us to willingly give over our privacy and personal data.
Independent_Pear_429 t1_iu84jz2 wrote
I hate tiktok
Cruzer2000 t1_iu80ae6 wrote
Just ban TikTok already
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granoladeer t1_iu82q7f wrote
Isn't this like common sense now?
TheMusicMinute t1_iu8lbkv wrote
Privacy is still a thing? 👀
Fit-Satisfaction7831 t1_iu7zury wrote
Spoiler alert: they discover Google and Apple are primarily interested in what apps pay them for streamlined access to user data, not what they do with it.
Vannilazero t1_iu8bmsl wrote
I’ve literally uninstalled everything that can track me besides apple I know I can’t do anything against them using their product, but yeah big brother is watching
BreadConqueror5119 t1_iu8osg3 wrote
America already does that to American stfu bunch of fear mongers
Badtrainwreck t1_iu9pin2 wrote
Even if that data was being sold to China, why would it matter if TikTok can track you or if they are just allowed to buy tracking data? The results are the same.
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inkinkie t1_iu86hvr wrote
But we knew this would happen. We were warned tick tok was a chi com company
papillonmonarquee t1_iu8c62c wrote
The algorithm used is suspect
esp211 t1_iu8jknn wrote
What are the chances that this gets banned in the US?
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DisgorgeX t1_iu8ncqb wrote
You mean like every other app on your phone already does? Stop trying to make me care about China "spying on me" like that's gonna be the reason this whole thing goes down. Oh shit they got my linguine salad recipe! It's over for the USA!
I don't care. Turn off your location settings, delete your advertising ID, and quit worrying about it.
Playful_Art_5364 t1_iu8p122 wrote
Honestly it’ll take China invading Taiwan to get tiktok banned. Yet American companies can’t even exist in China without sucking up to the CCP.
It’s kinda a bad look for the US
Uthallan t1_iu8y9ek wrote
OK but what about American companies that have been known to be doing the very same thing for many years before tiktok?
Flame87 t1_iu91ucy wrote
Lol little know fact, every request for regulation cuts a regulatory body's budget by $1m to cut a check straight to a GOP lawmaker 😂
Flame87 t1_iu92ihp wrote
Americans are increasingly deciding democracy is bullshit so long as they get cheap gas anyway, so who cares whose doing the fascisting? At least Xi Jinping isn't a whiny bitch about it. 🤷
_SpaceTimeContinuum t1_iu96qr2 wrote
It's time for Apple and Google to remove Tik Tok from their stores.
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BoozeIsFoods t1_iu9cl94 wrote
"Reports of plans"?? It's literally right there in the TOS and permissions. It's been known since day one that the app tracked your every move.
mbcummings t1_iu9e9yj wrote
Locations train their AI for what?
vagabond_nerd t1_iu9khak wrote
The government is afraid of Susequehanna hedge fund, they invest a lot in TikTok and rich people hate losing money.
fukijama t1_iu9kjys wrote
Is there a way to fake your GPS coordinates? We can all put ourselves in odd places for them to track.
pillbinge t1_iu9m7xv wrote
On one hand, people want companies like TikTok to be stopped. On the other, they would fight off any attempt to regulate the internet. What is it people would actually want, let alone support?
Greedence t1_iu9pb19 wrote
If the product is free then you are the product.
mrbaryonyx t1_iu9r5zx wrote
ITT: "um, ever hear of google stupid American? I am very smart!"
aeolus811tw t1_iuafyiz wrote
China: lol ok
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amnlkingdom t1_iuatw2y wrote
The tik tok challenges have always been suspicious to me. I know I would never be searching on YouTube on how to steal a Hyundai or swallow a Tide pod.
young_earth t1_iuayp0y wrote
Yes! Yes! Please kill it! 🙂
driago t1_iub4yls wrote
Delete that shit.
Bearet t1_iubia4x wrote
There is the running joke that this is in fact necessary because these people can get lost easily given their intellect or lack of intellect. If TikTok is so interested in their user's whereabouts, there are ways to track every single cell phone by make and model and almost from the beginning, certain activity tracking watches have been trackable via satellite. In other words, if this is what they are up to, then they are about ten years lost in the past.
ThisisthewayLA t1_iubpu7y wrote
Remind me why they haven’t banned tiktok yet
8ell0 t1_iubr6hh wrote
Too little, too late
Leifseed t1_iubrk5x wrote
Tik toc is demonic
dakath5 t1_iucjh90 wrote
Hey looks like trump was right once again
monchota t1_iudsj8a wrote
Easy to fix, Ban Tik Toc.
PaladinHan t1_iu82hxh wrote
Ok, but is anyone who actually uses TikTok worth tracking anyways?
Rageinus t1_iu85xy7 wrote
The sheeple just gobble this shit up
K1nsey6 t1_iu9jjmf wrote
Lets ignore that the CIA and NSA track their own citizens, it's only an issue if big scary China does it.
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ugly_pizza1 t1_iu9mukw wrote
Had bad vibes from tiktok right off the bat. Glad I never got into it.
chickybabe332 t1_iuaukq0 wrote
XiJinPooh hard at work
joeg26reddit t1_iu87izr wrote
Ccp spy tool and social manipulation platform
Dragonlibrarian7 t1_iu8hagd wrote
I don't know how, I don't when, but the Chinese government is going to use Tiktok ito fuck us over at some point. We should ban it now.
asdfafdsg t1_iu90213 wrote
Thanks for your informed and brilliant take 👍
Ash-Devil240Z t1_iu90l60 wrote
The one good thing trump ever tried to do was banning tiktok. You think dangerous viral tiktok trends happen organically? its a CCP psyop.
bloodbracelets t1_iu9l36w wrote
the "dangerous viral trends" are actually a psyop by the US intelligence agencies to coax us into thinking tiktok is bad
mancemck t1_iu8afe8 wrote
A republican would not go to san francisco.
StreetCornVendor t1_iu866oc wrote
People laughed at trump when he tried blocking it.
Short-Woodpecker-911 t1_iu8479i wrote
Remember who TF owns it!!!.🤬...How can our Government even allow them to have this TRASH in our Country? Because they both want the same Abilities! 😡 WAKE THE F UP AND STOP USING THIS TRASH!!!
IllKissYourBoobies t1_iu7x7ba wrote
Oh, look. A CCP company doing CCP things.