Yeah, remember when Trump "saved" Tiktok? This is what he was doing. You fucking idiots celebrated when you should have been taking it as a sign to leave that app and never return.
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It does seem like a Leopards Ate My Face situation
Do you really think the same people most affected by this were the ones celebrating
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Honestly, TikTok was corrupt and malicious from the moment its servers in beijing went online.
All the corporate controlled social media is complicit, including Meta and obviously X. They make it so easy and entertaining, just like Fux News. There are much less invasive alternatives like Mastodon but people are lazy/stupid.
Something tells me the royal "you" you're mad at isn't on the fediverse
We did that is why we are here. You need to be saying this on tik tok
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Here's a hint:
STOP USING THE APP
Or just stop using the platform altogether. The reason that most of these things are "apps" is so that they can track you better, not for the "experience".
JFC.
Around two or three years ago, I was on a sales call/app demo as a potential customer–not for TikTok, of course. It's an American company and I'm based in Canada. I asked the sales guy about their data storage, encryption, privacy, and the like; he didn't know. I said I needed to know that if our group uses the application to communicate internally about, for example, helping refugees, the government won't be able to access it. The guy asked me if that really was a concern.
Well, you tell me now, sales guy, is it really a concern?
Amen. Unfortunately I feel like there's a whole generation that has come up with a different mindset. Not that you want to stand up for your rights, but that you will do whatever you want and complain about it if it violates your rights or your privacy, but not actually stop doing it.
I feel like the idea of proactively standing up for your rights or what you believe in rather than just complaining or posting online is no longer in in common parlance.
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For real. TikTok should be regarded as a de facto intelligence service for the DOJ.
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Just don’t do it
Now THAT is spyware!
And people are like: yeah, i need that
That is insane
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Anyone who uses tiktok is kind of an idiot to be honest, and it's kind of amusing that they're shocked that this would happen. Wtf did you expect?
You kinda have to be on tiktok to be surprised by that. It's like an iq test that you can fail
It seems like each new wave that gets on the 'net seems to be dumber and dumber about a lot of things, TBH.
I'm always quite amused when I see younger generations think that they "get" technology better than older generations just because they signed up for private platform brands like this and learn how they work as a user. It's like a rat being released into a maze, thinking they "get" the maze.
I'm generalizing of course. I've met some very actually tech savvy people across many different generations, including on down to Gen Alpha. Thankfully.
"HA! Stupid scientists can't even do the maze. I always get to the cheese first! Hey, why is my drugs button not working?" press press press press press press press
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A rule of journalism: Unless it's meant literally, when a news headline includes words like blasts, blisters, bombshell, burns, claps back, drags, epic self-own, explodes, freaks out, goes viral, humbled, humiliated, melts down, mind-blowing, rages, rips, roasts, shocking, skewers, slams, staggering, stuns, or trolls, find a better source.
Lemmy user blasts news source and humiliates editor over viral headline.
Absolutely slammed it.
Thank you. Once my eyes hit a word like that I don't even continue reading. It's a major reason I left reddit, because they barely have any non-baiting news anymore.
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The app developed and operated by an authoritarian military psyops is collecting data and promoting authoritarianism?!
No way!
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This change happened after it was acquired by Ellison. He was not involved in its development
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I called this shit 7 months ago. (Check my very first post.)
Now, at that time, there was discussion of "public-private" cooperation concerning the cybersecurity of that data so it could (paraphrasing) "stay in the hands of American people." Lolol.
No doubt a similar agreement is in place and this shit is vectored directly to the US gov.
(Sorry, I start getting long-winded here.)
Fuck the technocracy. Bunch of cowardly assholes using and clearly planning to use Americans' personal info against them en masse. The algorithms have manipulated us, pitting wage slave against wage slave. And all that extracted data will continue being utilized in siccing the brownshirts they rabbit-holed and radicalized onto conveniently corralled targets. Us.
We have to fight their algorithm manipulation with not only data poisoning and/or removing ourselves from the tech altogether, but good ol' fashioned interpersonal psychological manipulation. And what I mean by that is physically talking to humans outside our bubble. Find some common ground. Believe it or not, it still exists. Use seemingly innocuous quips to plant seeds of doubt. Try to reach the human that may or may not still exist in that withered husk you work with, that maga uncle with a maga son so in the closet it hurts, the ones just acting like it's all okay. Help them see the writing on the wall that they, too, will lose.
By completely disengaging with people we think are beyond redemption, we are possibly allowing so many with a shred of heart left to continue down the rabbit hole in private. People are stupid. And we know this division is by design. Fight it with well-placed words before they do something irredeemable and we have nothing left to fight with but arms.
A vast number of maga figureheads and followers sure seem to be living in a world of shared psychosis. And when you're in a psychosis, it genuinely feels like everyone's out to get you for reasons you can only justify with increasingly difficult mental gymnastics. But it's all manufactured by the very real psychopaths in power, the ones ensuring the cult psychosis keeps perpetuating.
I guess what I'm saying is there's still time to pull some of these followers or in-betweeners out of it by shifting the focus of what they think they have to fear by showing them what they really need to fear. A spin on killing them with kindness.
Idk tho. I'm just mad all of this dystopian hatred shit didn't just stay inside all the books I read growing up.
It's a cult, it's literally using cult trapping tactics, that's why people are so delusional. Knowing that, might help in how you approach, should you choose to try.
Look after yourself, too. It's all a lot to take on, and they want everyone stuck in fight or flight, because it literally shuts down your critical thinking. The most empowering thing to do, right now, is beat their game against you, and find ways to bring yourself down out of fight or flight, after seeing the stuff going on, because your fight or flight can't tell the difference between being there and watching a video. Complete the stress cycle after you see this stuff, hum, sing, dance or go for a walk, are some options.
Find ways to decompress. Maybe it's going to get hard, having good strategies to help yourself cope, and learning tools and techniques to undo the damage seeing this does, is going to make this an easier ride. We can beat them. They know that. They are scared of us. We will get through this.
TikTok showed it couldn’t be trusted when it performatively kissed Trump’s ass.
Do you own a Tok Tok account?
Fuck you.
Sorry for the bluntness... But that's how we feel. Fuck you, you fucking shithole.
Ellison is evil
We used to be anonymous on the internet. We had screen names, didn’t show our faces or tell people where we lived.
This is what we get when sharing your face becomes the default.
Freak out, they say, well that's a interesting way of describing it. It sounds like a pretty good thing to freak out about. Maybe it's not freaking out at all, maybe it's reacting with a modicum of common sense at something that's incredibly scary.
So we the Fediverse made an alternative because it seemed Tik Tok would be gone now we are going to find ourselves pushing the same alternative because Tik Tok is a privacy nightmare (I mean it already was but this seems worse.)
Maybe the lawyer isn't lying but it doesn't matter why the data was collected. Once it is collected it can be used for anything.
the most apt punishment for these fascist supporting billionaires is to tank their investments to the ground by not using them
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