The government took away your brain damage app, so you protest installing blatant authoritarian spyware on your phone… truly a genuis giga-chad move that will own the guberment.
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Lmao .ml losers are big mad.
Thanks but if like to keep my banking data private. Along with everything else.
The fact that people are ok with this blows my fucking mind. Corps literally normalised being buttfucked.
I’m pretty sure most people who are doing this are trying, in their own way, to make a point.
It wasn’t about “national security”. It was about a large digital meeting place where ideas could be shared, or feelings and frustrations at their government could be seen and felt by others who felt the same. Big Brother doesn’t like that, unless it is on US Corporate Approved Social Media, where they can promptly shut you down, or get their algorithm to put post with specific keywords out of the eyes of as many as possible.
So, instead of creating actual data privacy laws, as they should have, they decided to attack TikTok, because Mark Zuckerburg got in front of congress during whatever case it was that brought his lizard ass in the room (maybe the Cambridge Analytica scandal?) and said that TikTok was more dangerous than his own platform.
There you go. It was never about “national security”, as there were much better ways to handle that than banning one single app.
Doing the the thing in direct opposition to what an authority is demanding is like a trauma response or something.
it’s also a good idea when the authority is being a piece of shit and grew too comfortable in their position.
moving your data from your domestic authoritarian to a foreign authoritarian isn’t the gotcha you think it is
Yeah absolutely. Grassroots organising is good but so is being angsty on the internet. Like how a few people were talking about voting as a tool for harm prevention on an individual rather than systemic level before the election. Whatever works to make you feel less powerless is a good thing
China was caught logging every keystroke through this. It’s why some revamped it’s permissions a while ago.
In China it shows people how to be good, science, technology., education, nature.
Here it show kids to eat tide pods.
It’s a propaganda method for China.
Yes, surely no other apps log keystrokes. Certainly not Gboard!
Of course not, Google does no evil. Everyone knows that.
I could not care less if China has every single thing I’ve ever typed. They’re literally half a world away, and have never tried to launch a war on vague concepts.
The US government nor any corporate owner of the US government should have a single idea of my existence except for tax purposes.
have never tried to launch a war on vague concepts.
Hahahahahahahahahahaha
Are you serious?
China didn’t have a war on terror or war on crime.
Clear campaigns with easily defined goals and exact steps lines out aren’t wars on vague concepts, fascist xunt.
Edit, sorry, didn’t look at the last one. Yeah I guess a war on racist characatures is kinda vague, you racist xunt.
Oh you’re a Chinese nationalist lmao.
Print this on a billboard, stand on a sidewalk, and see how far you can exist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre
Fucking fascist.
Nope I’m not, but do read that page sometime and ask yourself what the right response is to a group of us citizens and college age Chinese men that steal weapons from police and start killing civilians.
The shit liberals just go along with because it fits their propaganda is genuinely fucking hilarious.
It’s not that deep. AIPAC fucking hated how the truth about Israel’s genocide was spreading, and told their puppets to ban it.
The DNC chose to lose 3 branches of government rather than disobey Israel.
Yeah. Lemmy users should spend a bit of time deconstructing why tik tok makes them so angry. There’s a bit to unpack there. Not that it isn’t trash.
IT professionals clutching their pearls is just this year’s “won’t somebody think of the bank windows!” Our data is fucked already. Security and privacy had been made worthless now and only seems to have a compensative value to tech companies. So why not cast it to the wind and watch them scramble after it?
I am still angry at Facebook for normalizing using your real name. That eroded a lot of basic security practices.
Now little 7yos share mommy’s credit card in YouTube comments.
People are disgusted by the idea that one random person could track their every move and read everything they write.
Unless that person is employed at a large corporation.I used to date a Google employee. They had a Signal chat where they shared screenshots of funny or interesting shit they saw on the user accounts.
And many abused their access to spy on ex-partners and the like.oh fuck
That’s horrific. I hope your relationship ended amicably?
Not really, she caught me Binging someone else.
I forgot which community this was lmao
Gottum.
We underestimated how little people trust the government compared to how much they hate china
I used to be disgusted that people didn’t seem to care that they were risking their own privacy and national security to boot. But then I remembered that our own government won’t do anything to keep our individual privacy in check from corporations. So as long as that’s the case, I don’t see why anyone should give a fuck. The government did this to themselves.
And hence EU and UK regulations are so fucking needed. GDPR and legal requirements for companies to follow is a god sent.
Got a cold email? &hit them with that sweet chat gbt copy pasta!
Makes sense as the only difference is jurisdiction, who steals your data, and what flavor the propaganda is. You got 2 bad options:
The fully automated
malware“advertisement” system that steals every loose bit of information on device and sends it to the highest bidder and the US government(if they pay) while telling you how you feel and what to buy.OR
The fully automated
malware“for your safety” system that steals every loose bit of information on device and sends it to the Chinese government while telling you how you feel and that you love the government or else. As a bonus it will piss off a boomer in congress.They clearly don’t know or understand any alternatives otherwise they would go there.
Easy choice. The US gov has massive power over me. The Chinese gov has near zero.
If I had to choose I’m definitely going for the Chinese.
Let’s be real the only reason tiktok is getting banned is because the US govt isn’t getting any tax money from all the data being harvested.
At least with other social media that openly sells your data to foreign countries the govt can collect that sweet sweet tax money to line the pockets of people with too much money as it is.
It’s nothing to do with tax revenue and everything to do with controlling the narrative through social media. More specifically the fact they couldn’t use TikTok to convince people there was no genocide in Gaza was what kicked all of this off.
Wasn’t just the corpos it was a joint project between the corps and the government. And in rebellion people are giving a rival nation full access to everything. If China had an obligation competitor you would be smart betting that they would’ve seen millions of holes before dawn just form people trying to spit in the face if tbe US.
Its a sensible protest, wtf is China going to do with that data that the US government and attached corporations wouldn’t do, right?
The US gov hereby declares China butt fucking Americans banned!
Americans… Oh African butt fucking is awesome!
These idiots are seething st the mouth to have their privacy buttfucked.
Go get it, kings and queens. Surely trading your own security for (checks notes) …wow… dopamine hits from shitposts isn’t going to have any negative impacts.
People worship corps.
It’s just learned habit.
amazing how much you missed the joke lmao
Bend over for…
Yes.
Here comes the honey!
Truly a shitpost indeed
Relax, they’re just doing some “advanced” compartmentalization to get their social credit up.
On a serious note, you have to realise that some people genuinely do not care. Why? For many reassons. But an important one is that privacy concerns are a source of anxiety, at least for me. It’s difficult, it sounds paranoid and unreasonable to somebody who’s “not in the know”.
I think we should introduce privacy at a more generic level. We shouldn’t judge people for using these apps, no matter how bad we may think they are.
Take back control of your data. Take back the power you’re giving to big tech. You have that right.
what is this xingchang (or whatever it’s called)?
Social media alternative for TikTok that may go down in the USA.
