"TikTok's strategy is a brilliant act of misdirection"
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I like how this guy is talking about their brilliant misdirection, social engineering, psychological manipulation, and clever re/framing...while talking about their "consistent refusal to divest."
Makes them the bad guys for trying to resist, and not wanting to give up their property at gunpoint.
Look. If TikTok is a foreign-based national security threat...just seize it. Take it. This "forced selling" thing is bullshit framing itself. Especially when the method leaves open to doing it to American companies that are perceived to have foreign connections, too.
if I control a massive company - whether I'm foreign-connected or not - and some government says I have to give it up...damn fucking right I'm going to fight that as hard as I can.
Agreed. If it were a threat the issue isn't ownership, it's it's mere existence.
National security is being used as a cover for the real reason the powers that be want to eliminate tik Tok and that reason is likely that TT didn't censor things that were critical of Israel and Jews.
And rest assured, when TT comes back, it's rules will be kosherized.
Yall stay sucking Chinese dick. It's actually amazing the disconnect. Yall see the problem with Israel and it's influence and then turn around and praise China for it
Except he said none of that?
You're also missing genius the (early) shutdown- we've seen thousands of grown ass adults literally crying over TikTok going away, showing potential buyers how many devoted users they have and increasing it's sale value.
True. That too. "Look at how many junkies we have. Soo many junkies!"
Nothing new, this has been the leftist/ Hollywood/ Saul alinski modus operandi for decades. Victimhood portrayal to set the narrative / purely Pathos arguments/ then punishing their followers while blaming “bad man”. It’s also the textbook example of abusive women using emotional manipulation.
There's nothing particular brilliant about tiktok's behavior, and this nogacki fellow's post sounds like it's written by AI. I suppose the reframing part was the clever idea. Everything is a negotiable.
Correct.
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I’m wondering why an app like temu was ok but TikTok isn’t? Temu app was owned by millions and is presumably scraping the same data that TikTok is.
Good observation. I mentioned this a few weeks ago. TEMU actually collects more data, like your credit card info, your home address, etc.
The answer is simple: you can't politically organize on TEMU. You can't say things like "Free Palestine" (which is now auto-censored) or talk about Zionism, etc. It's fine for you to buy cheap plastic shit with your increasingly worthless wages, but don't you go noticing which goblin is responsible for the inflation, or which goblin wants you to die in a war for the benefit of goblins. That's why TikTok is "bad" and TEMU is "good."
Harder to push Chinese propaganda in a shopping app
You mean harder to NOTICE
There isn't that much pro Chinese propaganda pushed on tiktok (though they ban anti Chinese content), and the law was targeted at information gathering.
They purposefully push anti western sentiment
I hope you're taking notes, class.
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TBH tiktoc should not be banned the way they want to ban it.
Instead they should ban the form of data collection that tiktoc practices, and extend that to all internet programs.