• werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Tiktok helped my life for the better 😀… LOL. Sure but it is also a Chinese company that can do things to turn your life and the life of everyone around you into living hell if the government do wishes to.

    I think what I would want my relationship with the Chinese country to be like is just simple transactions… I give you this money and I buy that thing. Done, end of transaction. I would like that for all phone tech companies actually. None of this shit about updates because they sold me a shit phone. None of the here’s 8 features, then an update leaves you with 3 features only.

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      2 months ago

      Twitter/x is owned by an unhinged South African billionaire and Middle East oil Barrons. We can discuss the theoretical abuse of TikTok, but X is damaging our democracy today.

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      2 months ago

      Meanwhile everyone has already forget when Cambridge Analytics used Meta and Facebook to influence voters into giving us Trump worn the hell of Russian propaganda. The hypocrisy is so blatant They just want only US oligarchs making money and they want to be able to censor things young people are seeing nowadays from around the world. Every other excuse is a screen.

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        2 months ago

        This is possible. But at home we don’t watch TV and I just blocked YouTube altogether from my kids. That website is rancid. I wouldn’t let my kids on TikTok either if I was me. And I am me.

        However you are absolutely right. How else will you move people who don’t know any better to actually vote for you? And what sector of the population doesn’t know all the shit you have done in the past 30 years than people who haven’t lived 30 years and haven’t paid attention in history class, not care much about it? Teenagers! That population lives on TikTok. So you are absolutely right. Because if TikTok was a porn site nobody would give a fuck except Texas.