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Bullet Club
Member
They're going to kill the TikTok thread.
Maybe it's for the best.
Maybe it's for the best.
fran.fernandez
Member
Idk tiktok but wechat is a mess.
i had many messages and pictures deleted talking with Chinese friends. They get automatic deletes after some minutes. Also Screenshot of bbc cnn guardian get deleted .
Now we mostly speak using line or Kakao talk.
i had many messages and pictures deleted talking with Chinese friends. They get automatic deletes after some minutes. Also Screenshot of bbc cnn guardian get deleted .
Now we mostly speak using line or Kakao talk.
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Cutty Flam
Banned
About fucking time. Fuck that app. Fuck Vine too
Mistake
Member
That’s because your chats are monitored. External news sources are banned too.
Guys, this reminds me. Today is your last day to troll the Chinese government on their platforms
Ten_Fold
Member
Thinking about it more, lots more countries will try an do this, FB,Google,Twitter,IG might not be as global in the new few years, when countries will start to create their own versions. They might not want our super liberal influence in their countries, it’s just a new style defense.
DESTROYA
Member
We can all dream.
J-Roderton
Member
Something equally or more so idiotic will replace it in a few months.
Tesseract
Banned
so long as the thing is american and plays ball w / the pentagon, idgaf
Elektro Demon
Banned
Damn you lucky Yanks. That cancerous pos should be banned worldwide.
FemdomFilmFan
Banned
Trump agrees to TikTok deal with Oracle and Walmart, allowing app’s U.S. operations to continue
The outcome could boost Oracle's position as a company that can handle challenging computing workloads and help to resolve a geopolitical dispute between the U.S. and China.
www.cnbc.com
FemdomFilmFan
Banned
Ten_Fold
Member
I really wish.
Slings and Arrows
Banned
Let's all give it to the NSA instead!*+
*This post does not reflect the view of the management of GAF.
+This post does not defend China.
Edit: I didn't see the above post until i had posted my snark. So i guess TikTok is kewl as long as US "national security agencies", literally the NSA, handle the data?
How is this better, or worse?
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rorepmE
Member
Gangster capitalism and the American theft of Chinese innovation | TechCrunch
It used to be “easy” to tell the American and Chinese economies apart. One was innovative, one made clones. One was a free market while the other demanded
techcrunch.com
Guys
#Phonepunk#
Banned
maybe you are an ignorant person who thinks the US gov't is as bad as the Chinese gov't ,who currently has millions of people in "re-education camps" that they are harvesting for bodily organs.
NSA doesn't have that. CCP does.
harvesting body organs from ethnic prisoners. let that sink in. this is what you are hand waving away.
this is one of those issues where moral relativism only proves you have no ethics and no moral values and probably no idea what you are talking about.
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rorepmE
Member
Lets see..
a foreign government that can't be held accountable by it's own citizens let a lone foreign citizens for any impropriety and the fact that Chinese companies due to their laws must hand over data at the drop of a hat.
vs
vs the NSA, who isn't hosting the data and at least has to justify why they need the data and despite some failings we still have reasonable accountability from our representatives.
Totes the saem.
Slings and Arrows
Banned
I did add in worse/better and say i'm not defending china
but please tell me how i'm defending China.
I'm not American or Chinese and in the grand scheme of things, both countries can go fucking suck it for taking data en masse.
I won't defend any country that spies on it's own population, making 10's if not 100's of billions in profit from that very data, while those people don't see a penny of that profit.
In this situation i don't see a difference between the CCP taking my data or the NSA/CIA. I have a Huaewei phone with Google installed so i'm getting DP'd. If anything, i would prefer the Chinese to take my data because i reckon translating my dialect from barely English to Mandarin would be gobbeldy-gook.
I mean, i can't even explain shit in English to English speakers. No way the Chinese can understand it.
rorepmE
Member
Slings and Arrows
Banned
I...
Where to start.
Didn't Apple have to turn data over to the FBI or whomever? Isn't this the reason Assange is where he is now?
Nobody has any accountability. Nobody. Let's not play pretend and think everything is rosey. It isn't. In any country.
I get it though. America good because you're American. I respect you defending your home soil, no sarcasm, patriotism and nationalism are inspiring. It's good to see that people love their country. Just lets not go down the dark path of history because no country is innocent.
pennythoughts
Member
Normie talk going around is about data collection which is a bit of a red herring as it collects the same data that just about any other app does. What type of phone you use, how often you open up the app, how long you use it for, etc.
The major concern from the US governments' point of view is that China's state controlled capitalist society can step in and make major decisions on how their social media companies use algorithms. In Turkey for instance LGBT content is censored, elsewhere content that criticizes the CCP is taken down. Users would be able to spot obvious propaganda and most would never fall for obvious pro-CCP posts so I don't think there's any rational fear that the CCP would sneak those in but when you can silently take out dissenting viewpoints the net effect is the same. It's illiberal and antithetical to western democracy and ideals.
This "ban" only moves the data collection from ByteDance to a US company, it does not stop that China is in control of TikTok's algorithms.
TikTok is not a unique idea, if it's ever gone something else will take its place, zoomers will dance their dumb dances and everyone else will yell at clouds over it.
WhiskeyDiver
Member
They're going to kill the TikTok thread.
Maybe it's for the best.
I hate you so fucking much for that post. I just contracted eternal erectile dysfunction from your post.
But then I can't hate you at all cause your avatar is just fuckin perfection.
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
There was no step. Tiktok is still here. Just another nothingburger.
UltimaKilo
Gold Member
I don’t know what kind of troll you are, but no, Apple, the FBI and Assange are not related.
Yes, for national security purposes, the US government wouldn’t want a foreign dictatorial governments with data of its own citizens. If they collect data on their own citizens or not, is not the issue.
China is not accountable to its own citizens.
The US does not own its companies, they are private organizations. So the US is not buying TikTok, Oracle and Walmart are.
If you don’t understand the situation, ask. People are happy to explain it to you.
Slings and Arrows
Banned
The FBI and Apple are facing off over an iPhone again. What's going on?
US attorney general is calling on privacy-minded tech company to unlock iPhones related to a recent shooting at a Florida naval base
www.google.com
Not Assange, my bad. Same thing applies though. Government exerting pressure to access private companies back door keys.
Fwiw not a troll. I never said America were worse or better than China in the case of data collection and sharing. Any China and or American policies outside of this select instance don't matter diddly swiat
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bronk
Banned
They're going to kill the TikTok thread.
Maybe it's for the best.
I regret that thread lol