Nice hope they won’t budge.
This would be a win for Facebook and Twitter/X.
Cool, please do.
Very unlikely.
Excellent
We tried that with facebook in the eu. Didn’t work
Me, an American, to my German cousin:
“So, yeah, I’m changing email addresses, here’s my new one.”
“Email? Are you using WhatsApp?”
“Er, no, how about text?”
“We all have WhatsApp.”
“Okay, maybe Google Chat?”
“WhatsApp? WhatsApp.”
Here’s the trick (maybe): “Don’t you know that WhatsApp is owned by Meta and collecting information on your chat metadata (who you chat to, when, your contacts, their contacts).”
Tell them to get Signal. If there’s any country on this planet where convincing people to use Signal is easier, it must be Germany. GMaps streetview was banned there until recently, everyone uses fake names on Facebook, if they even made one in the first place.
Surely they must be amenable to Signal
I’ve had basically the same conversation with my sister who lives in Albania. I just want to use something encrypted like signal but she just refuses and says it’s either WhatsApp or Facebook messenger. Cause of that I barely talk to her.
WhatsApp is e2e encrypted. It uses the same tech as Signal.
*allegedly
No one knows for sure, since WhatsApp is proprietary
So are Signal’s serverside components.
Uh, no? I don’t know who told you this lie, but https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server
Btw it wouldn’t even matter, since the encryption happens in the client app. The server basically just passes around encrypted pieces of data between devices.
The owner is a problem though.
bring fediverse flags to Eurovision then.
We’re gonna try harder next time
If they said or implied anything else, they would lose all leverage. The public couldn’t care less about who owns tiktok, so they need people to think they’ll lose it to have any public support.
Even better
Good 1 less spyware app
Bye Felecia
while i’m obviously sure it’s a bluff, pulling out instead of selling would be the clearest admittance that tiktok is (or at that point: was) not about the profit, but about Chinese influence in the US. the message being “we rather leave a hudred billion dollars on the table than give away our surveillance technology to some US company.”
but yeah, they will def. sell if they need to.
It’s more like their US profits are no match for their Chinese profits. Social media use in China and other Asian countries dwarfs US use.
There are valid commercial reasons not to go through a forced sale with a ticking time limit, which will inevitably carry a steeply discounted price. Rather than getting robbed, it makes sense to hang on to the company and take profits from the rest of the world.
If the Chinese government is behind this, it’s a great play. Having Joe Biden be “the guy who banned tik tok” would severely undermine his election chances.
Why would China want Biden to lose?
Because Trump is equivalent to self destruction.
14 year olds don’t vote
They were 14 four years ago
14 year olds aren’t the only people who use Tik Tok
Lemmy really seems to generally think that TikTok isn’t massively overall popular. Lemmy would have someone thinking it’s a niche app only being used by teenagers.
Guess we’ll find out whether TikTok or reproductive freedom is more important…
TikTok or reproductive freedom
Both of those bans have happened during the Biden administration
Yes, we all know Biden was super excited about Dobs. -_-
Abortion ban happened because of Trump’s corrupt judges in the supreme court, yeah
US should call their bluff. If Tiktok gets banned, people will complain for a little bit until people forget and move on to what’s next. Why doesn’t an American company make something that’s practically identical? People will be all desperate for their 5 second dopamine rush that they will download anything.
Vine.co returns!
I think Elon might just do that based on what I’ve been reading.
Dear god no
As I recall, the guy who makes Pixelfed (dansup?) is also working on a vine clone called loops. It looks like the site is https://loops.video/ Doesn’t appear to be operational yet.
i never got to experience vine (and google+)
It would be his first good instinct. But bringing back the domain is t going to bring back the magic. Vine is dead and nothing Musked is going to be any fun.
They can’t, the algorithm is the best part about tiktok and none of the competitors come close.
That’s interesting, what’s so clever or original about its algorithm?
If you have to ask that question you definitely don’t use Tiktok it’s far far superior algorithmically than Reels and YT Shorts which are both absolute garbage.
If I remember correctly from my rabbit hole, it tracks your viewing habits by a far wider list of variables and on a micromanaged scale. It can be annoying if you have someone sending you content you don’t like because viewing them will slot them into your feed immediately, but it’s just as quick to discard those things. I found it very easy to train for my interests in cooking, goblincore, and irrational humor.
Meanwhile, YT Shorts sees me watch one video then gives me nothing but that.
Personally I’ve not tried shorts, I don’t have any issues with it but I’ve only ever used YouTube for long form educational videos or horror fiction so it never has anything to offer me.
YouTube and Instagram already have identical features. Most US creators who post on Tik Tok also use those platforms already
India did this and Instagram reels is the main one that benefited. Probably be the same for US if it pulls through on this.
Back to Vine we go
Y’all are dumb as hell for supporting this bill. It doesn’t just ban tiktok, it applies to any app with 20% or more ownership by any person/entity from a country that is a “foreign adversary”.
Ok…?
China does the same.
So we should do whatever China does??? Are you ready for the firewall? lmfao
Im not making a stance on it but I read more to it.
It seems very focused on “social media” as in software that is about users sharing their own content with other users with 1,000,000 monthly active users.
Those that support it on tiktok likely would for other similar services.
The part that stands out to me is it mentions real time communication. So Telegram probably counts.
It lists the foreign adversaries, they aren’t just made up on a whim. Iran, N. Korea, China, Russia.
Where is WhatsApp based?
WhatsApp is American owned. You may be thinking of WeChat?
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Yes I paraphrased the actual bill. Its broad but not without limits.
…ok? You realize that actually makes it even better right?
A lot of the users here are just butthurt anti social media people, not actually principled free speech or rule of law advocates. This ban is arguably unconstitutional and TikTok is being targeted for purely political reasons, not because of any credible threat to “national security.” This is some Patriot Act level overreach bullshit, but the clueless mainstream just clamors for it because CNN/Fox spends hours of airtime decrying the dangers of TikTok, and a fraction doing the same for Meta/X/Reddit.
TikTok is literally controlled directly by the Chinese government, which is officially considered a foreign adversary (for a good reason)
Source?
There are more than enough sources, just google “TikTok Chinese government influence”. Just a few examples:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2023/07/26/tiktok-chinese-propaganda-ads-europe/
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/11/tiktok-china-us-elections-influence
Also, just think about it: The CCP loves spreading propaganda. There’s a massive social media platform controlled by China, which is used by young people in foreign adversary nations. Why wouldn’t they leverage this platform to spread their lies and influence people? It’s literally the perfect opportunity.
That’s all platform agnostic. You think they didn’t have accounts and ads on every major service?
Wow. How predictable. Nothing you posted has anything to do with the Chinese government “literally directly controlling” TikTok, despite those being the exact words you chose and used.
Instead, you posted one story about TikTok in Europe running ads by the CCP, and two about the CCP using accounts on TikTok.
It’s a well known fact that the CCP runs accounts on Reddit and other socials. TikTok accepting and running ads from the CCP in Europe is a European problem. Could be addressed by updated regulations around ads, idk, I’m not European. Meta could run ads from the CCP or Russia in Europe, perhaps? Or maybe TikTok broke European advertising regulations. Still, has nothing to do with the USA.
So again, you people are repeating US intelligence propaganda about the Chinese government “owning and controlling” TikTok and then posting “proof” that proves nothing.
Try again?
It’s painfully apparent you have a fundamental lack of understanding of how the CCP works in relation to companies in China. Or how they behave on the world stage outside of your ech chamber. If they operate in a critical sector, they are controlled by the CCP. I mean, you do accept that the CCP is an oppressive, authoritarian regime, right? If you don’t accept that, then we can’t carry on because you’re not in the same reality or arguing in bad faith.
And before the defense: “but they’re really capitalists” - yeah, so what? Errybody greedy. Still doesn’t change that the CCP is an authoritarian regime. I have the feeling that no matter what, you’re going to move the goalposts because, I dunno, America bad? (and yeah, we’ve got a lot to account for and I’m no 'merica cheerleader). And no amount of evidence will sway you.
May you have the day you deserve.
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Sorry why should I be against that?
Not sure if you’ve been paying attention but citizens have no say over stuff like this. 99% of the politicians in office were placed there by rich people - they have the only true votes. The bill included money to Ukraine (great), and Israel (WTF), and Taiwan, and TikTok. It shouldn’t be legal to package all that stuff together, but it’s pretty standard. Anyway not sure who you’re talking to - there are like a few hundred politicians who supported this bill, most of them probably for other reasons, and none of them are on Lemmy.
Talking about the comments here.
I see, well Lemmy is a bunch of Reddit refugees for the most part. Probably happy to see social media corps dying no matter how?
