It’s Official, TikTok is Banned in America!

[The truth seeker]

TikTok since it’s banned in India and has just lost there biggest foreign market of 330 million users this is business catastrophe for them

 

[Basra]

Stay tuned is a Trump use word. Tik Tok will be back, Nacaalaah shaitaan Trump wants to be a hero

anyway who- cares-- JUST BRING MY TIK TOK BACK!!!!!


I don't mind taking a break for a couple of days. I am catching up with tv cable shows

 

[Sigmundd]

Not buying it until after a year has passed. Nevertheless I now need the UK to ban tiktok followed by other countries so it can shutdown permanently and no other app similair or worse than tiktok ever emerges. We also need Instagram reels to be removed since xenophobia is rife there same with X. Having said all this the damage is done sadly.

 

[Idilinaa]

Not buying it until after a year has passed. Nevertheless I now need the UK to ban tiktok followed by other countries so it can shutdown permanently and no other app similair or worse than tiktok ever emerges. We also need Instagram reels to be removed since xenophobia is rife there same with X. Having said all this the damage is done sadly.

The ban is more than likely going to spread to the UK

TikTok ban likely to spread to US allies - including UK

Analysts have suggested it is "just matter of time" until the US ban on TikTok spreads.

www.bbc.com

To be honest the reason they ban it is kinda nonsense, it really has nothing to do with combating hate speech/xenophobia, reducing the time people spend on it and how bad it is for mental health of teens just like other social media platforms or misinformation. They ban it because China their adversary collects your user data, even though everyone's user data is being collected anytime they use other social apps or surf the interweb and people are flooded with more disinformation on X for example.

Instead of banning it they should create policies that help regulate and incentivize better ''usage'' but Joe Biden just like everyone else in congress are just digitally illiterate old farts to understand this and it's against vested corporate interests that want more eyeballs on the screen at all cost to get more ad revenue.

Social media is far from free speech or giving voice to the voice less, it's giving voice to a vocal small minority that monpolizes the discussions, in many cases as we have seen with that Finish Biracial guy in charge of the ''Southport Wakeup'' telegram group or the Dubai Turkish couple in charge of ''Europe Invasion'' twitter account, there are individuals, psyops and outside actors manipulating discourse and flaming tensions in various places, spreading disinformation.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/10-of-twitter-users-generate-over-90-of-content-study-finds-1.791107

More than 90 per cent of the content on Twitter is generated by just 10 per cent of the people using the social network site, according to a study by the Harvard Business School.
It's practically a cesspit that exploits human negativity bias to farm engagement, any nuanced balanced or fair assessment of anything is pushed aside. You need to be loud and crazy and over the top.

They also miss the point about the problem with Social Media its not even about freedom of speech or limiting speech, its about usage and how people are using it. Social media platforms such as twitter/X are incentivizing usage in one certain way, leveraging emotions like anger, resentment, envy to evoke repeat compulsive use , manipulated by algorithms and like/rt/view functions. So for people think they are in control is laughable, you sign up to it and it turns you into an asocial robot, who is tapping on his phone screen repeatedly.

It's the way in which they have designed these platforms that is the problem. A simple content moderation is not going to fix this.

Also there is point to mention that mental illness in the west has sky rocketed due to the introduction of Social Media.

They should change the design and implementation of features in social media is what i am saying. That is going to change how people use the platforms. So it's not a question of limiting speech, or restricting it, its about usage. Incentive systems usually determine usage.

They should change it also into narrative platforms and encourage story telling, that would greatly limit the disjointed posts and random factoids/bits being thrown around like an avalanche. It's pretty harrowing to be on those platforms, in the way you get flooded constantly with info. Storytelling on the other hand is therapeutic.

They should also localize the platforms interactions, convert away from a network model.

Then after that what they can do is community moderation, where the users take part in moderating content and posts themselves. Not the way X does with community notes, that's not enough, that can be apart of it but much more extensive.

There was a few other solutions in that docu series that was taken down but i can't recall all of them but they don't really all involve government overreach or monitoring

 

[The truth seeker]

The ban is more than likely going to spread to the UK

TikTok ban likely to spread to US allies - including UK

Analysts have suggested it is "just matter of time" until the US ban on TikTok spreads.

www.bbc.com

To be honest the reason they ban it is kinda nonsense, it really has nothing to do with combatting hate speech, reducing the time people spend on it and how bad it is for mental health of teens just like other social media platforms or misinformation. They ban it because China their adversary collects your user data, even though everyone's user data is being collected anytime they use other social apps or surf the interweb and people are flooded with more disinformation on X for example.

Instead of banning it they should create policies that help regulate and incentive better ''usage'' but Joe Biden just like everyone else in congress are just digitally illiterate old farts to understand this:

The United Kingdom always ready to follow America everywhere I don’t think they average citizens there know the NSA collects data on American and Europeans

US and UK struck secret deal to allow NSA to 'unmask' Britons' personal data

• 2007 deal allows NSA to store previously restricted material• UK citizens not suspected of wrongdoing caught up in dragnet• Separate draft memo proposes US spying on 'Five-Eyes' allies

www.theguardian.com

 

[EritreanPost_]

use VPN to overcome them ban

 

[Idilinaa]

The United Kingdom always ready to follow America everywhere I don’t think they average citizens there know the NSA collects data on American and Europeans

US and UK struck secret deal to allow NSA to 'unmask' Britons' personal data

• 2007 deal allows NSA to store previously restricted material• UK citizens not suspected of wrongdoing caught up in dragnet• Separate draft memo proposes US spying on 'Five-Eyes' allies

www.theguardian.com

It's so nonsensical for them to frame the ban as protecting citizens ''user data'' when they themselves violate that tenfold and have little transparency when comes to how they handle peoples personal data.

 

[The truth seeker]

It's so nonsensical for them to frame the ban as protecting citizens ''user data'' when they themselves violate that tenfold and have little transparency when comes to how they handle peoples personal data.

The CIA/NSA and its presidential co signers run west they used the patriot act and the post 9/11 panic to rapidly expand there spy network there more powerful than they ever have been

Washington wants to be the only ones who can influence there sheep and lead them wherever they want but there exaggerating this average American regardless of social media use has no idea what there country is doing abroad or the fact that Biden has been expanding the us navy and military presence in the pacific

Britain in particular seems to have a suicidal approach to American presidents and thinks there is a “special relationship ”when in really the only time trump or any president will care is if they need British troops in a foreign intervention .The truth of the matter is that Ireland has a large and successful diaspora in America and has democrats and republicans on there side which is why Ireland always gets what it wants from America

 

[Sigmundd]

The ban is more than likely going to spread to the UK

TikTok ban likely to spread to US allies - including UK

Analysts have suggested it is "just matter of time" until the US ban on TikTok spreads.

www.bbc.com

To be honest the reason they ban it is kinda nonsense, it really has nothing to do with combating hate speech/xenophobia, reducing the time people spend on it and how bad it is for mental health of teens just like other social media platforms or misinformation. They ban it because China their adversary collects your user data, even though everyone's user data is being collected anytime they use other social apps or surf the interweb and people are flooded with more disinformation on X for example.

Instead of banning it they should create policies that help regulate and incentivize better ''usage'' but Joe Biden just like everyone else in congress are just digitally illiterate old farts to understand this and it's against vested corporate interests that want more eyeballs on the screen at all cost to get more ad revenue.

Nahhh it needs to be banned it did us no good as a community. But sadly I fear Trump will unban it so he can eb ahiled as a "hero" it's not going to be banned uff.

 

[The truth seeker]

Nahhh it needs to be banned it did us no good as a community. But sadly I fear Trump will unban it so he can eb ahiled as a "hero" it's not going to be banned uff.

Trump hates china since there competing with America in the pacific and arctic the problem for him is if TikTok is banned Americans might turn to another Chinese run app which would be a nightmare for the CIA

Trump is Already considered a hero he is more popular than he’d ever been I expect American Chinese relations to improve under him Biden had a crazy approach almost lead us to Cold War 2.0

 

[Sigmundd]

Trump hates china since there competing with America in the pacific and arctic the problem for him is if TikTok is banned Americans might turn to another Chinese run app which would be a nightmare for the CIA

Trump is Already considered a hero he is more popular than he’d ever been I expect American Chinese relations to improve under him Biden had a crazy approach almost lead us to Cold War 2.0

RIP to our rep if it gets unbanned. Nothing worse than brain rot Americans coming back smh.