Posted on 05/11/2022 9:55:38 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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TikTok, as we know it today, is only a few years old. But its growth is like nothing we’ve seen before. In 2021, it had more active users than Twitter, more U.S. watch minutes than YouTube, more app downloads than Facebook, more site visits than Google. The app is best known for viral dance trends, but there was a time when Twitter was 140-character updates about lunch orders and Facebook was restricted to elite universities. Things change. Perhaps they have already changed. A few weeks ago, I gave a lecture at a Presbyterian college in South Carolina, and asked some of the students where they liked to get their news. Almost every one said TikTok.
TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese company. And Chinese companies are vulnerable to the whims and the will of the Chinese government. There is no possible ambiguity on this point: The Chinese Communist Party spent much of the last year cracking down on its tech sector. They made a particular example out of Jack Ma, the high-flying founder of Alibaba. The message was unmistakable: Chief executives will act in accordance with party wishes or see their lives upended and their companies dismembered.
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I remember when Trump said this and he was ridiculed.
maybe part of the chinee plan?
No kidding. It’s why Trump banned it.
Biden immediately rescinded the order.
Just another government propaganda and spy tool disguised as “social media”
Groomers, blue hairs and shaved eyebrows.
You mean eyebrows with Sharpies? And nose rings?
That’s a pretty shallow statement.
Social media is a disease. But perhaps it’s what humankind deserves. 1978 never looked so damn good
One from
Column ‘A’ please.
“That’s a pretty shallow statement.”
After 4 tours in SWA, 27+ years in the military and making it to over 65, pretty women and beer are a lot of my enjoyment in life. But I will admit nothing is better than my 8 year old daughter.
Some of the homos on there shave a single line through their eyebrow hair. It’s the dumbest thing.
Have you ever considered some form of counseling?
To get rid of ‘unibrow’?
Pathetic existence…🙄
Yikes. See what you mean, now.
XD
Seriously: I think it may have started when people thought Jason Momoa's eyebrow scar looked cool. It sorta does, but I'm not going to try to emulate it artificially.
Wow the face of the blonde on the left looks like it’s been digitally faked.
If Sax Rohmer were still alive, I’m sure he’d have already put out a Yellow Peril novel, where TikTok was revealed as the latest dastardly plot of Fu Manchu. :P
after all, the best fiction is based upon at least a few grains of truth...
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