I hate how, when he needs some money, he can just drop a crypto meme coin name somewhere on social media and watch the price go up. He can then sell all of the coins he undoubtedly bought beforehand and sit back and watch a couple of millions added to his bank account. He did it a couple of times with doge, and now with kekius. I’m not smart enough to follow the money for crypto coins, but I’m sure someone could identify one or more whale accounts with suspicious buying and selling moments for these coins as Musk’s secret little money factories. (Or the creation of a couple of thousands of smaller accounts, if he really wanted to conceal his tracks)

Hehe, I for one am going to enjoy watching the U.S. economy tank for the next four years and take the maga idiots down a notch or two.

Here you are again defending TikTok. Your last argument in another thread was I was echoing Trumps talking points. When I pointed out Trump actually doesn’t want to ban TikTok like this article highlights, I didn’t hear anything back.

So enlighten us, what is bad about TikTok being banned?

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/27/g-s1-40213/donald-trump-tiktok-ban-supreme-court

Tell me again how Trump wants to ban TikTok.

After using Twitter as a propaganda tool, he now sees another chance to influence naive voters. He’ll probably have it split up so his new best friend Elon Musk can take over.

Which changes absolutely nothing to my argument, even if true (which I don’t think)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance

ByteDance Ltd. is a Chinese internet technology company headquartered in Haidian, Beijing and incorporated in the Cayman Islands.

But ByteDance, the creators of TikTok are.

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What part of the argument has no basis in reality?

These are the facts:

• China has their own version of TikTok, for which they control much of the nature of the content.
• this alternative app is only meant for the Chinese population and limits usage, so young people are less prone to waste a lot of time on it.
• meanwhile the actual TikTok app features tons of misinformation and is made to be highly addictive
• it is also quite well-known that TikTok collects most user information of pretty much all social media apps.
• we know nothing about the underlying algorithms, but it’s pretty safe to assume the Chinese government doesn’t have our best interest in mind.

My conclusion is that it’s not unlikely TikTok is used at least to some degree, by the Chinese as a tool for spying, and to spread propaganda to further their own agenda.

While the Chinese version is somewhat educational, in the west it spreads misinformation, it has people waste time doing dumb ass dances and playback songs. It effectively makes people stupid.

Now please enlighten me and show me my logical fallacy.

Great argument, well substantiated.

It tells me that TikTok is used to brainwash people and that they don’t want their own weapon used against them.

And I agree other social media does the same. Maybe a little less obvious. The Chinese authoritarian government can obviously protect their own from this much more effectively.

In America blocking an app like TikTok is considered taking away the freedom of people to choose and express themselves. Especially after getting a large part of the population addicted to the crappy content.

China is using the freedom of the west against them.

Tell me what other social media use separate versions and time limits between countries?

But I agree that other social media should be regarded critically as well. It’s just that china takes a very obvious approach trying to shield their own people from the obviously effective propaganda machine they created.

All the while in China TikTok is forbidden. They have a Chinese version called Douyin, and it limits the content to educational instead of entertainment and the time spent to maximum 2 hours for people under 18.

What does it tell you that the Chinese government itself wants to protect their people from the influence of TikTok?

It’s simply a propaganda tool to influence people and it keeps them addicted using an algorithm. It’s a highly specialized psy ops tool. It makes the world dumber and uses the same addictiveness to educate the Chinese at the same time.

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The blinkers should just engage the headlights blinking in a BMW.

This picture should be on the wiki page for both corruption as well as nepotism.

I was wondering if ther could be a technical way to remove ads and tracking beyond just an adblocker. The thing is, a lot of ads are now also disguised as “content”, TikTok videos being a prime example. I would love to see an internet without any ads at all.

The bar was lowered a few years ago. Why expect others to take the high road? Rules for thee but not for me?

There is more on the way

I remember in the nineties and early 2000s everybody wanted to go to the U.S. on holiday: visit New York, the romantic city that never sleeps, where you can buy Levi’s 501s and iPhones for cheap, because everyone wanted those back in the day.

Or California, the birthplace of surfing and skateboarding, where the weather was nice and the beaches and people are beautiful. It was spurred by what people saw in movies and on t.v. shows.

These days I don’t hear many people speak positively about the US anymore. Lots of people think it’s dangerous, with all the guns around and lots of violence in the streets and even in schools that are supposed to be safe places for children. Donald Trump getting elected is also a big part of it of course. It says something about the mindset of the American people and the course they want to follow.even as a tourist you don’t feel safe or welcome anymore.

The culture of freedom and innovation many people admired has dwindled and is pretty much gone IMHO.

The feelgood movies about america seemed to have dried up. Any real news coming from across the pond is pretty dire, or at least negative.

Innovation is slowing. In my mind the iphone was the last really innovative physical good that was invented in the US which everyone was excited about.

I for one miss the old U.S. We need a better role model.

“It’s threatening the shoe store by waving a chainsaw at your legs” I don’t know if you personally made this up, but this cracked me up.