People are fickle in their tastes of internet platforms. Does anyone here still use Digg or MySpace? So yes, I think that TikTok could be killed through social pressure.
I’ll also add that TikTok is a spyware tool for the CCP. The app siphons data that it has no business collecting, like what devices you have on your LAN for example. So it should be banned on those grounds the same way that Huawei telecom equipment has been banned. The fact that it is also obviously a psyop designed to promote degeneracy is also impetus to ban it.
Maybe the US could draw a line and just ban all Chinese tech companies. I don’t like it since it’ll fracture the internet further but at least it’d be some sort of objective principle to point to. I really don’t like subjectively banning TikTok (even if I dislike the platform) because it’ll set a very dangerous precedent that I’m sure that the government will abuse in the future.
People are fickle in their tastes of internet platforms. Does anyone here still use Digg or MySpace? So yes, I think that TikTok could be killed through social pressure.
I’ll also add that TikTok is a spyware tool for the CCP. The app siphons data that it has no business collecting, like what devices you have on your LAN for example. So it should be banned on those grounds the same way that Huawei telecom equipment has been banned. The fact that it is also obviously a psyop designed to promote degeneracy is also impetus to ban it.
Maybe the US could draw a line and just ban all Chinese tech companies. I don’t like it since it’ll fracture the internet further but at least it’d be some sort of objective principle to point to. I really don’t like subjectively banning TikTok (even if I dislike the platform) because it’ll set a very dangerous precedent that I’m sure that the government will abuse in the future.