I’m pretty sure most people who are doing this are trying, in their own way, to make a point.
It wasn’t about “national security”. It was about a large digital meeting place where ideas could be shared, or feelings and frustrations at their government could be seen and felt by others who felt the same. Big Brother doesn’t like that, unless it is on US Corporate Approved Social Media, where they can promptly shut you down, or get their algorithm to put post with specific keywords out of the eyes of as many as possible.
So, instead of creating actual data privacy laws, as they should have, they decided to attack TikTok, because Mark Zuckerburg got in front of congress during whatever case it was that brought his lizard ass in the room (maybe the Cambridge Analytica scandal?) and said that TikTok was more dangerous than his own platform.
There you go. It was never about “national security”, as there were much better ways to handle that than banning one single app.
Yeah absolutely.
Grassroots organising is good but so is being angsty on the internet.
Like how a few people were talking about voting as a tool for harm prevention on an individual rather than systemic level before the election.
Whatever works to make you feel less powerless is a good thing
I could not care less if China has every single thing I’ve ever typed. They’re literally half a world away, and have never tried to launch a war on vague concepts.
The US government nor any corporate owner of the US government should have a single idea of my existence except for tax purposes.
Nope I’m not, but do read that page sometime and ask yourself what the right response is to a group of us citizens and college age Chinese men that steal weapons from police and start killing civilians.
IT professionals clutching their pearls is just this year’s “won’t somebody think of the bank windows!” Our data is fucked already. Security and privacy had been made worthless now and only seems to have a compensative value to tech companies. So why not cast it to the wind and watch them scramble after it?
I’m pretty sure most people who are doing this are trying, in their own way, to make a point.
It wasn’t about “national security”. It was about a large digital meeting place where ideas could be shared, or feelings and frustrations at their government could be seen and felt by others who felt the same. Big Brother doesn’t like that, unless it is on US Corporate Approved Social Media, where they can promptly shut you down, or get their algorithm to put post with specific keywords out of the eyes of as many as possible.
So, instead of creating actual data privacy laws, as they should have, they decided to attack TikTok, because Mark Zuckerburg got in front of congress during whatever case it was that brought his lizard ass in the room (maybe the Cambridge Analytica scandal?) and said that TikTok was more dangerous than his own platform.
There you go. It was never about “national security”, as there were much better ways to handle that than banning one single app.
Doing the the thing in direct opposition to what an authority is demanding is like a trauma response or something.
it’s also a good idea when the authority is being a piece of shit and grew too comfortable in their position.
moving your data from your domestic authoritarian to a foreign authoritarian isn’t the gotcha you think it is
Yeah absolutely. Grassroots organising is good but so is being angsty on the internet. Like how a few people were talking about voting as a tool for harm prevention on an individual rather than systemic level before the election. Whatever works to make you feel less powerless is a good thing
China was caught logging every keystroke through this. It’s why some revamped it’s permissions a while ago.
In China it shows people how to be good, science, technology., education, nature.
Here it show kids to eat tide pods.
It’s a propaganda method for China.
Yes, surely no other apps log keystrokes. Certainly not Gboard!
Of course not, Google does no evil. Everyone knows that.
I could not care less if China has every single thing I’ve ever typed. They’re literally half a world away, and have never tried to launch a war on vague concepts.
The US government nor any corporate owner of the US government should have a single idea of my existence except for tax purposes.
Hahahahahahahahahahaha
Are you serious?
China didn’t have a war on terror or war on crime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaign
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Winnie-the-Pooh_in_China
Get bent, dimwitted tankie cunt.
Clear campaigns with easily defined goals and exact steps lines out aren’t wars on vague concepts, fascist xunt.
Edit, sorry, didn’t look at the last one. Yeah I guess a war on racist characatures is kinda vague, you racist xunt.
Oh you’re a Chinese nationalist lmao.
Print this on a billboard, stand on a sidewalk, and see how far you can exist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre
Fucking fascist.
Nope I’m not, but do read that page sometime and ask yourself what the right response is to a group of us citizens and college age Chinese men that steal weapons from police and start killing civilians.
Yeah. Lemmy users should spend a bit of time deconstructing why tik tok makes them so angry. There’s a bit to unpack there. Not that it isn’t trash.
The shit liberals just go along with because it fits their propaganda is genuinely fucking hilarious.
It’s not that deep. AIPAC fucking hated how the truth about Israel’s genocide was spreading, and told their puppets to ban it.
The DNC chose to lose 3 branches of government rather than disobey Israel.
IT professionals clutching their pearls is just this year’s “won’t somebody think of the bank windows!” Our data is fucked already. Security and privacy had been made worthless now and only seems to have a compensative value to tech companies. So why not cast it to the wind and watch them scramble after it?