Did you take that screenshot? If so, what are those labelers?
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Yeah, here’s the lablers:
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Thanks. I’m off to figure out how to use labellers, I haven’t before now.
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So weird. Biden signed the ban, Trump supported the ban, and 80% of congress (including Schumer) voted for it in April. Now everyone is falling all over themselves trying to stop the ban from going into effect:
I’m not on TikTok and have no stake in this one way or the other, but it’s pretty remarkable watching this unfold.
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I don’t think they expected people to rush off en-masse to a blatantly Chinese alternative, and it’s scaring the crap out of them.
My 13yo is on TikTok and knows it collects data. She doesn’t care. Any other platform she uses also collects data, and to her whether that data is in the US or China doesn’t matter as long as she can get her fandom itch scratched. And TikTok is where the best content is, so that’s where she goes.
I think a lot of gen Z/gen alpha are in the same boat. They know their data will be hoovered, and whether that’s going to a Chinese or an American company is irrelevant to them. The kids aren’t buying the ‘US is good, foreign countries are bad’ rhetoric anymore.
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I agree, it’s hard for me to see the data collection of TikTok being more harmful than the data collection on any number of other platforms.
However maybe, like other algorithm-optimized social media, the real harm isn’t them collecting your data but in rewiring your brain, training you to watch a never-ending stream of more content, wasting your time, eliminating your ability to maintain concentration, etc. But of course that’s not what the lawmakers were talking about and it’s not a feature unique to TikTok.
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Seen from abroad this whole TikTok panic is so funny. Americans getting a taste of what it is like to use the internet as a non-American.
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Interesting (says an “American”). How so?
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Yep, we’re in Canada here. The US social media has dominated, but it’s certainly not because it’s American that we were using it. I’ve felt uneasy about Meta for years, and kept going back and forth on the benefits of deleting vs staying because it’s the only way I have to contact some family, but I haven’t talked to any of that family in at least 2 years, so I finally deleted when the ‘it’s ok to abuse queers’ policy became official (as opposed to unofficial like its been since I came out in 2021).
I’ve definitely noticed that this has affected my brain, but yeah. They want it to affect us by inundating us with pro-US/fascist propaganda and not other countries’ propaganda.
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One of the funniest things I’ve seen regarding RedNote was the Chinese users shock at finding out many of the negative aspects they hear about living in the US are true and not just government propaganda.
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Social networks being beholden to foreign powers, sending your data to the other end of the world to do god knows with it and having a rather cavalier attitude towards your laws because they know they are not truly within their reach is the default for us.
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Not like we’ve modeled any differently for them, though? We don’t care, so why should they… People like Doctorow have been warning us about this shit, and none of us listened (or rather the alternatives were an even greater sense of alienation than what we already feel). On top of that, if you want to interact online with your friends, family, communities, the public at large, etc, your data is going to be hoovered up. And, honestly, there really is little any of us can do about it, because it’s such a large systemic problem. We all know that all of this was grand standing, nationalistic bullshit in the first place (the targeting of tik-tok), because this is how ALL social media platforms conduct business and no one with the power to do anything cares enough to DO anything.
Right, because almost all governments have been captured by the same tech companies (and other large corporations). No governments work for the people anymore, even the ones that claim that they do and even the ones that still have some measure democratic processes. This has become such a systemic, globalized problem, that I’m not sure how we get out of it… But we probably should start with seeing it as a globalized, systemic problem rather than some individualized weakness. This has largely been done TO us, and doesn’t entirely stem from our inability to discipline ourselves enough to stay off social media…
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He never should have been allowed to keep both condos. Unless some deep pockets ponied up a payout for the plaintiffs.
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“This litigation has taken its toll on all parties. This whole episode was unfortunate,” Giuliani posted on X after the settlement was announced. “I and the Plaintiffs have agreed not to ever talk about each other in any defamatory manner, and I urge others to do the same.”
This f*ing guy. His victims aren’t the ones who have been found guilty for defaming. He just won’t stop with this b.s. He should be held in contempt again and locked up for a bit.
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There’s Luigi fanfic, guys…
This actually lifts my very shitty mood just a little…
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Rule 34.
NO exceptions.
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I can’t understand what’s going on with that story anymore. I mean… When I read various explanations, I can’t tell what’s true anymore.
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clown show government
It’s the best description I’ve come across
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