TikTok Ban in USA

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My GF posted vids on tiktok quite often and she spent most of the day downloading her vids and info for when it went dark. She finished a few hours ago and, well, it went dark early.
 
I keep reading that 170 million Americans are “TikTok users.”

That’s half the population.

I doubt 170 million Americans have TikTok accounts or are users.
 
our politicians have turned communist china into a superpower over the past decades all for greed and now they are worried about an app

cant make this stupid stuff up...both parties have ruined this once great nation
 
OGtruthhurts said:
our politicians have turned communist china into a superpower over the past decades all for greed and now they are worried about an app

cant make this stupid stuff up...both parties have ruined this once great nation
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Our politicians have made policy errors arising from everything from greed to good intentions but have hardly turned China into a superpower — China’s government has agency of its own, natural resources, nuclear weapons and 1.4 billion people, and in part has reached its current moment despite U.S. attempts to hinder its growth as a global superpower.
 

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How TikTok ate the internet​


“… If you have not used TikTok, you are rapidly becoming the global exception. In five years, the app, once written off as a silly dance-video fad, has become one of the most prominent, discussed, distrusted, technically sophisticated and geopolitically complicated juggernauts on the internet — a phenomenon that has secured an unrivaled grasp on culture and everyday life and intensified the conflict between the world’s biggest superpowers.

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Its dominance, as estimated by the internet firms Cloudflare, Data.ai and Sensor Tower, is hard to overstate. TikTok’s website was visited last year more often than Google. No app has grown faster past a billion users, and more than 100 million of them are in the United States, roughly a third of the country. The average American viewer watches TikTok for 80 minutes a day — more than the time spent on Facebook and Instagram, combined.

Two-thirds of American teens use the app, and 1 in 6 say they watch it “almost constantly,” a Pew Research Center survey in August found; usage of Facebook among the same group has been cut in half since 2015. A report this summer by the parental-control tool Qustodio found that TikTok was both the most-used social media app for children and the one parents were most likely to block. And while half of TikTok’s U.S. audience is younger than 25, the app is winning grown-ups’ attention, too; the industry analyst eMarketer expects its over-65 audience will increase this year by nearly 15 percent. (AARP last year even unveiled a how-to guide.)

… Silicon Valley taught the world a style of online connectivity built on hand-chosen interests and friendships. TikTok doesn’t care about those. Instead, it unravels for viewers an endless line of videos selected by its algorithm, then learns a viewer’s tastes with every second they watch, pause or scroll. You don’t tell TikTok what you want to see. It tells you. And the internet can’t get enough.

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The “For You” algorithm, as TikTok calls it, gradually builds profiles of users’ tastes not from what they choose but from how they behave. While Facebook and other social networks rely on their users to define themselves by typing in their interests or following famous people, TikTok watches and learns, tapping into trends and desires their users might not identify.

The system runs on a sophisticated machine-learning engine — ByteDance researchers have championed its “sub-linear computational complexity” — but to TikTokers, the process could not be simpler. Launch the app. See the video. Passively consume. …”


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05C40 said:
I know I should be more upset about this than I am. But I'm not. Was never a subscriber/member/lurker in regard to TicTok. It always felt like it would be borderline creepy for an old man like me sitting around all day looking at videos of teenage girls. Was there actual more to TicTok than teenage girls posting videos of themselves?
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My kids would send me animal.videos from TikTok that I couldn't watch because I didn't have an account.

In talking to them they said you could easily control what you see and not have to watch teenaged girls.
 
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Bluntly, Kirk’s newest missive probably has it right. TikTok didn’t have to go dark today, it is a political move and will give Trump a hero’s welcome moment if/when they open back up access after his inauguration tomorrow.

Biden gifted Trump a kick-start hero moment with young TikTok users by refusing to enforce the ban in accordance with law before leaving. Why waste political capital on this at all in light of his refusal to defend or enforce it? Political malpractice….
 
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[China doesn’t allow its citizens to use TikTok; they have a parallel, more strictly controlled and monitored version called Douyin, that is apparently heavily moderated to prevent dissent or negative messages about the government there]

Anyway, a possible framework emerging for a deal among China, The United States and Musk? Musk has been teasing buying or controlling U.S. TikTok …
 
I still don't know exactly how I feel about the TikTok band. Does free speech mean that we have a right content from an enemy country? If the concern is that China is collecting our data, then why aren't we banning Temu and Schein apps?
 
Given how many people use TikTok, if Trump cuts some kind of deal where Musk or another one of his right-wing plutocrat buddies buys it he'll be portrayed as a hero (as will the plutocrat who purchases it). The only people who complain will likely be Democratic politicians or Democrats on social media boards who, even if their criticisms are accurate and on point, will still come across as whining about yet another glorious victory for Dear Leader. That's how it will be shown on most news and social media and that's how most Americans will see it portrayed.
 
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