Posted on 01/16/2025 11:34:56 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The chief executive of TikTok plans to attend President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inauguration and has been invited to sit in a position of honor on the dais, where former presidents, family members and other important guests traditionally are seated, two people familiar with the plans said Wednesday.
Mr. Trump has vowed to save the app in the United States once he is inaugurated on Jan. 20, though his options...
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Yet Ford, GM, and IBM had factories in Nazi-era Germany. Until they were taken over by the German Gov’t and placed in a “trust”. We did the same thing with German-owned businesses in WW2.
> I can tell you don’t use it. You control what you see more than on any other platform. <
Ha, you’re right. I’ve seen TikTok maybe three times. And that’s it. On YouTube you are shown videos that (allegedly) fit your profile. But you also get many random videos. Is TikTok like that, or can you customize it to the point where you only get videos of the type you want to see?
Also, TikTok has a reputation for allowing videos that show dangerous stunts, the so-called “TikTok challenges”. Comment?
Thanks for any insight.
Thanks for the critique.
I just went there for a while, and it reminds me of YT.
Thanks for the critique.
I just went there for a while, and it reminds me of YT.
But China is "evil" and they're stealing our data.
A random FReeper.
So you must really see President Trump as a terrible President for having the CEO of a vile entity (in your mind) as his personal guest at the Inauguration. Why the beef with Trump and MAGA?
Yes, that’s exactly what the algorithm does. If something you dislike appears in front of you you click the button that you don’t wanna see this kind of thing and you don’t get more of it. You hit the little heart button for anything that you enjoyed, and follow any creator that you enjoyed their work. And you get more of it. Basically the algorithm learns who you are. And there’s one TikTok challenge that never gets much publicity. There is a section called recommended videos for you. You swipe through 10 videos that are recommended for you and see what they are. So if your teenager is looking at raunchy videos , gangster rap, or anything else you don’t want them watching, there’s no way they can avoid that being in their recommended algorithm. At any given time a parent can say let’s look at your recommended and scroll back 10 videos, and if it’s all how do I improve my tuba playing, car repairs, decent music, videos of funny dogs… You can rest in peace. Also works with a husband and wife, that TikTok challenge, let me see your next ten “recommended for you”. If it’s videos on how to cheat on your spouse and not get caught, divorce tactics, our bizarre porn… It’s going to be there. They can’t clear that out. I don’t know of anything of that nature in Twitter or Instagram or Facebook. Lot easier for a kid to hide their tracks there.
The best part is that it’s super easy to find videos you seen, in order. It’s not like Facebook or you can’t hardly find the video you just watched. And honestly, some of the short 10 minute clips of sermons or the Bible are very thought-provoking. A lot of cooking and nutrition ideas that are fantastic. A lot of good vacation spot suggestions. A lot of history and book suggestions. And Trump is on it. As someone else there said let me sit here in my Chinese pajamas in my Chinese bed on my Chinese phone and enjoy this Chinese app.
I trust Trump is playing them as he is a deal maker. He’s going to try to keep the voters on TikTok happy without letting the CCP have control of TikTok.
His ultimate goal is to have TikTok in domestic hands without shutting down. Failing that, he will at least say he tried his best so the TikTok users don’t blame him personally.
BTW, isn’t it interesting that a “private” company would choose to let a multi-billion dollar enterprise shut down rather than sell it for market value?
If TikTok is truly private then management would be sued for violation of fiduciary duty to the shareholders, not to mention it would be monumentally stupid even if lawsuit is not a concern. No business throws away billions of dollars.
This should tell you all you need to know who’s actually calling the shots and making the decision here. It’s not ByteDance, it’s the CCP behind them pulling the strings, to them a few billion is a drop in the bucket compared to their goal of global hegemony, and the US is the primary obstacle to that goal.
Far superior to YouTube. Much less censorship. Far superior ability to find the videos you just watched. And it will let you stay on a certain topic of interest to you. YouTube avoids all of that like the plague, and it’s heavily censored. YouTube can’t stop with their stupid fact checking, and don’t you dare say anything critical of the shot.
I’m completely with you. When it became a controversy last year I tried it out, I’ve never laughed so much in my life, or had so many thought-provoking suggestions, etc. The main risk of it is that it’s hard to put it down! One thing I noticed, after a session on Twitter or Facebook, you just generally feel agitated. Tick-tock is much more inspiring, positive and I generally walk away with a happy attitude. I wonder if you noticed that same thing?
On the other hand, if you search out a bunch of negative crap, that’s what it’ll feed you. But it’s so easy to steer it into a wholesome and uplifting direction.
You might want to check out something called capitalism. If somebody owns some thing, and they don’t want to sell it, that’s the end of it. Second, all of this outrage about China gathering information on tick tock falls flat when you consider the deep personal relationships that are military, our Congress leaders, our universities, our businesses, and our national laboratories all have with Chinese nationals that are very much controlled by the Chinese government. Governor Kemp in Georgia is compromised by Chinese influence, and has a TV commercial of him speaking in Chinese. Swalwell had a Chinese spy as his lead contributor and blow job giver, and he stayed on the intelligence committee. I think it was Feinstein or Pelosi had a Chinese chauffeur for decades who turned out to be a spy. Chinese deeply penetrated Harvard and every other major university in the country. All of our iPhones are made in China, Boeing builds aircraft there. The list of Chinese government influence in our country, and elite capture is utterly beyond question our honest debate. Yet, for some reason none of that gets addressed… Only TikTok is the problem.
The reason is simple, Zuckerberg is a major contributor to everyone in Congress. Tick-tock is a superior product and was utterly annihilating Instagram and Facebook. Zuckerberg called up his congressman and demanded protection from a foreign competitor. Simple as that
Thanks for the detailed reply!
The fact that the Chinese have wormed their way into many facets of US society is why we have to take their threat even more seriously.
It is interesting the in the land of the free and the home of the brave, the government wants to shut down one of the only truly free communications platforms available for citizens to use to criticize their government. Very interesting. If America were the land of the free and the home of the brave we would tar and feather and run out of town the worthless power mad politicians who would dare trample on the First Amendment with this brazen attack on a private business.
Keep repeating a lie doesn’t make it true, TikTok is an agent of a foreign government. It is as much a private company as Hunter Biden’s paintings are valuable works of art.
You'll have to make a better argument than that.
So they know that we like cat videos on TikTok?
What will they do with that information?
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