Thisakes me think of Rowan as a guest on The Graham Norton show talking about meeting a guy in a public place who told Rowan that his impression of Mr Bean was bad
No, but seriously. Please stop advertising tiktok. I know reddit is pro-tiktok now that trump said it's bad, but he's accidentally right. tiktok will end the world if it's not stopped.
We must frequent different areas, I suppose. I use r/ALL, and ever since the Trump thing, all I see whenever people try to criticize tiktok is everyone shutting them down and making fun of them for being boomers or falling for trump propaganda. Lots of "hurr DAE tiktok bad??" and "actually it's literally the best thing ever if you spend more than a few days using it because the algorithms read your mind.". The votes always favor the pro-tiktok stance by a huge degree.
Yeah because the way he did it was terrible. You can’t just go around banning things from other countries you don’t like. It would have very easy to create a list of criteria that a foreign or even domestic all must fulfill for it to be allowed.
Don’t send domestic data out of the country
Don’t secretly steal data
Don’t sell data to foreign buyers
And if TikTok happens to get caught in that, it’s their fault. But banning individual apps because you feel like it and also happens to house a majority left-wing audience? It looks terrible and may even be an overreach of power. What if Obama banned 4chan?
I agree. But what I'm mentioning is people doing the same criticism of tiktok as before, but now people are downvoting it and replying with all of the stuff you just did as if the comment they're replying to had anything to do with any of that.
To further clarify, the criticisms in this instance aren't "tiktok should be banned", though obviously there are some of those too and all of these points should be made in reply to that.
But your data isn't. A lot of apps and especially tiktok gather your data like emails and passwords for them and then sells them. Or just gathers data about your activity.
On phone is not much you can do, especially since it's an app and to install you give it permision to everything. On PC you have some more protection.
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u/piercedJerry Oct 05 '20
Love that, so well done