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MochiMochiMochi t1_j2yrtwa wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Why TikTok’s future has never been so cloudy by prehistoric_knight

If the content isn't substantively different from YouTube Shorts or Facebook Reels then all you've got is the spyware claim.

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Ditovontease t1_j2zd63k wrote

I mean if you have Facebook or any google app on your phone: spyware lol. It’s just American so it’s okay!

Also reddit is certainly collecting data on us too

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TheRealAndrewLeft t1_j30ekxv wrote

  • Data harvesting for targeted ads by a private corp.
  • Data harvested and psyops by an authoritarian nation state.

They aren't the same.

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hjaltih t1_j30tr8a wrote

US was not far from going authoritarian just a couple of years ago. People here were expecting civil war and full authorotarian regime to take over. Very happy that did not happen though, so I will continue selling my time for ads now.

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Flintyy t1_j318j1y wrote

The phones themselves are Spyware. It really doesn't matter what app you have on it lol

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Accomplished_Pay8214 t1_j300ukc wrote

it is the reason youtube shorts and reels exist.

my God some of you are so annoying to read.

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MajorLeagueNoob t1_j302p4s wrote

Redditors racing to regurgitate more anti TikTok takes directly from mark Zuckerberg

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MochiMochiMochi t1_j30msdn wrote

So, TikTok was 'weaponized' to be harmful for certain countries and for select age groups? In what way?

YT Shorts and FB Reels exist because they copied the TikTok social graph and business model, which makes them also harmful but not intentionally since they're just copies?

Seems to me that TikTok, Shorts and Reels are all just mirrors to how stupid and banal most people are at any age. If we ban TikTok we should ban all of them, and I have no problem with that.

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