China gonna China (TikTok edition)

[mnole03]

FCC calling on Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores.

This comes after Buzzfeed reported that China is harvesting US user data that TikTok promised they didn’t have access to.

 

[Moral]

This shouldn’t be that hard but we view everything through neoliberal and globalist lenses.

Then again we also let the others harvest our data and sell it to everyone. So whatever.

 

[ConvenientParking]

Back to Vine, everyone? We can't stop meming just because China is spying on us.

 

[bhawk24bob]

if people only knew the level and bredth of privacy they signed away with a cell phone.....

 

[Moral]

if people only knew the level and bredth of privacy they signed away with a cell phone.....

Yep, this is just a piece of a much larger conversation.

 

[HawkMachine]

if people only knew the level and bredth of privacy they signed away with a cell phone.....

That's why I'm smarter than them.

 

[desihawk]

wasn't this a topic a few years ago? it was apparent then and remains the case now that this app is harmful to US interests.

 

[BioHawk]

Well, there's a reason I don't have TikTok on my phone. Not that my data isn't collected in other ways.

 

[Moral]

Well, there's a reason I don't have TikTok on my phone. Not that my data isn't collected in other ways.

I thought it was because you weren’t either a creep or a tween girl.

 

[Funky Bunch]

 

[beanerhawk]

But Tik Tok brings us this. Why get rid of it?

 

[BioHawk]

I thought it was because you weren’t either a creep or a tween girl.

Ok, there is more than one reason why I don't have that on my phone.

 

[SoDakHawk]

What about the Tik Tok videos that show up on YouTube?

Not a big fan of TikTok. It's mostly mindless drivel. Not a big fan of YouTube in the way my kids use it to watch how to make homemade slime or Carly videos or whatever else stupid crap they watch that is just dumb. I make them turn it off and they get mad. Tough crap, go outside and play.

YouTube used the right way, however, is a treasure trove of information. Golf instructional videos, BBQ and cooking, historical docs, etc. Subscribed to a great channel recently called Townsends that is about 16th, 17th, and 18th century and frontier foods. Just watched a doc on Grog and Rum in the 18th century. Very interesting.

 

[QChawks]