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Half of Canadians support TikTok ban, with U.S. concerns ‘trickling’ north: poll
(nanaimonewsnow.com)
this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2024
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I mean, we have actual data this time proving that it's limiting attention spans and is incredibly addictive. This isn't the classic right-wingers fearmongering over smoke and air, there's genuine psychological issues being caused by the app.
I hate Tik Tok as much as the next guy, but I think this could act as a precedent for future censorship.
We're way past the point of censorship. TikTok is censorship. The private, black-box algorithm content feeds censor whatever isn't profitable for their major shareholders under the guise that "it's still there." Except it almost never gets surfaced.
That fucking self-censoring algo-speak is disgusting. But every single twit who uses "un-alive" instead of just saying "dead" still has the option to leave and use any other platform on the internet. They choose to be fucked by TikTok and Instagram, they aren't being forced to use these platforms.
I think there's a pretty massive world of difference between blocking access to a mass misinformation machine operated by a hostile power that has notoriously used apps it controls to locate and kidnap foreign dissidents and a 1984 surveillance state.
I don't know how we got to this point where millions of Americans think China is their friend but hate their own government for being complicit in a genocide. I guess the Uyghurs just aren't marketable enough for people to care? The brutal crackdown on Hong Kong has left people's goldfish memory? Or maybe, just maybe, the mass misinformation machine is doing its job.
We have actual data going back 30+ years that watching TV limits attention span in children and is also addictive.
Nobody gives a shit about that though. What makes tiktok so much more important?