TikTok, tomorrow: "We found the issue that was causing some users to be blocked from sending the word 'Epstein'. Now all users are correctly blocked from sending the word 'Epstein'."
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Oh, look... Streisand is trending again.
"Investigating"
"We have investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing."
Just what I was thinking.
No way is this a technical issue, they probably tried to fuck with the algorithm to reduce any Epstein related stuff as much as possible and messed it up so now it's glaringly obvious what they tried.
And it will have no consequence whatsoever
No consequences for anything so far, why start now?
Everyone who never touched TikTok with a 10’ pole: what?
Loops is actually pretty great.
It’s not really my style of social media, so I don’t post much, but it’s a very impressive product. Props to dansup for getting it this far this fast.
"Register on Loops.video" not off to a promising start... >:/
Idk if this is bad manners or if it’ll work at all, but the dev is active on fedi, so here goes nothing: @dansup@mastodon.social
I'm all for it, if they're willing.
Compromised app.
Time to delete.
That is, if you prefer the government not being able to easily spy on you.
People claim the Chinese government spied on Americans in TikTok. Like, that's probably true, but unlike America, China didn't have legal jurisdiction over Americans, and American interests couldn't censor anything. Obviously that couldn't stand.
Did everybody forget the time when TikTok sent a push notification to its users telling them to call their congresspersons? The issue has never been spying, the issue is manipulation. The US oligarchs couldn’t handle another country being able to pull the strings like that.
The only people getting anywhere when calling their congressperson are billionaires.
In this case it actually pissed them off to the point that they unanimously voted to advance the ban.
I was genuinely unaware of this. What was it about?
Stopping this whole sale of tic tok thing. Briefly.
It seemed genuinely disconcerting to these people that youth were engaging in the political process by the officially sanctioned methods. After decades complaining about "apathetic youth".
But that can't be used as a post hoc rationalization for the initiative it was trying to stop. Also, it didn't work did it. So the efficacy of this "manipulation" ability is rather questionable.
It didn’t work because people getting calls from teenagers saying they would kill themselves if the ban went through made people more worried about it, not less. Not to mention that the calls overwhelmed the system at congress to the point that it went down.
Rock the Vote has existed for decades, nobody cares about youth engaging through officially sanctioned methods.
THAT'S IT I'M DELETING TIKTOK AND REINSTALLING FACEBOOK
tryna figure out why any can
I'm sure it's totally an accident.
Maybe TikTok just isn't smart enough to get it?
didn't kill himself.
Oh shit it's affecting lemmy too!