US to ban TikTok downloads on Sep. 20

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18 minutes ago, Scri said:

Not to defend Trump (I would never), but Chinese apps have tones of issues, both ethical and political. If you see only the surface, yeah tiktok is a social media for challenges, but actually is a growing algorithm of the biggest dictatorship on Earth.

I beg you to read some well-written scientific paper on this, or even a proper article.

There are other apps that get information from you though. I’m not saying it’s right or anything like that, but why specifically ban TikTok when we have a lot of American apps and sites that gather information too? 

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1 minute ago, JK Rowling said:

China is one of the world’s biggest superpower that is heading towards dictatorship. I’m living in the East right now and they are at war with everyone.

Oh yeah i knew about that but like, if it’s about data every country has that collecting system

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16 minutes ago, BadGurlMadge said:

Yeah, but like TikTok has freedom of speech and as far as i have seen, i haven’t found any “dictatorship” videos there 

China has their own version of tiktok, it's allegedly collecting users' data for political purposes

What we use is the international version, the company didn't censor anything on the platform yet but the problem remains the same

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I don’t care about TikTok, but WeChat is another story. 

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6 minutes ago, M Monstre said:

There are other apps that get information from you though. I’m not saying it’s right or anything like that, but why specifically ban TikTok when we have a lot of American apps and sites that gather information too? 

Of course Trump is not a good person with no interests, so he's doing to favor USA, not because he's really worried about americans' data of course.

The main difference is that China is a dictatorship, proven to use those data for unethical issues. As I stated before, while the fact that FB and Google hold my data is a problem, if those companies would collaborate with a dictatorship would be way worse than now...

For example, this algorithms might be use to persecute an ethnic group. They have concentrantion camp as well: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/technology/china-uighurs-hackers-malware-hackers-smartphones.html

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Glad it’s being taken down 

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Okay, but when are we getting another COVID-19 stimulus check? 

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Letting the big companies collect your data for commercial purposes is one thing, providing your personal informations to a government that is committing genocide  is another

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7 minutes ago, BadGurlMadge said:

Oh yeah i knew about that but like, if it’s about data every country has that collecting system

It's not only about collecting data, it's about who uses them and why. See for example the article I've pasted before (this).

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Pop the champagne. 

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Do we know if it will actually be removed from devices or just not downloadable anymore?

No doubt TikTok has security issues, but the random puppy videos cheer me up a lot so I will be sad. 

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oh sh*t, didn't actually think this would happen 

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Not gonna lie, I don’t post anything on it - but I use it to look at celebrities and hot guys/men.  I guess I have to get a VPN or something?

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Gaga better start promoting challenges on IG Reels

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Noooooo, didn’t the US operations for the app get bought by a US company the other day? WTF, this is bigger than TikTok getting banned, this is censoring by the government. The fact that TikTok is getting banned, but Facebook is still up and running really bothers me.