If sowing discord means posting pictures of food and just generally being nice to one another, I’m not sure the status quo being disturbed is worth protecting.
Oh no it turns out that Chinese people are friendly and normal this will surely be the downfall of the West.
The problem with TT isn’t it’s content, the “food pictures and people being nice to each other” you referenced, its with how TT uses its algorithm to influence its users and the risk of them misusing the data their app collects.
If sowing discord means posting pictures of food and just generally being nice to one another, I’m not sure the status quo being disturbed is worth protecting.
Oh no it turns out that Chinese people are friendly and normal this will surely be the downfall of the West.
I mean, if you just remove politics, most interactions are normal
Election Interference so blatant that the EU started formal proceedings.
Multiple studies, including a very recent one by Rutgers and NCR, showing it’s a pro CCP propaganda vehicle.
It lied about collecting precise user data.
It lied about whether that data was accessible to ByteDance and it lied about not using that data to track people.
The problem with TT isn’t it’s content, the “food pictures and people being nice to each other” you referenced, its with how TT uses its algorithm to influence its users and the risk of them misusing the data their app collects.
Twitter ( X run by the twit) and Facebook do the very same but worse . I wonder why they were not banned?
They should be.
But will they be?
Because the ban isn’t actually about the data harvesting. It’s about money.
NCRI and WashingtonTimes are rags.
And the verge article caught them conducting a head count. Oh no, the horror, they wanted to know how many unique users they had!
Damn capitalist commie food, that’s what it is!