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Spreading for awareness, I've been posting this in relevant threads for a week - This is all theater.
trump was always going to "save" tik tok after starting the initial push to ban it (for the wrong reasons) to pretend he did something for you. Worst part is that all of the no/low info voters and non voters will eat it up.
It's the equivalent of a person pushing you into the middle of the street and at the very last second, that same person tells the drivers to all stop. "Wow, I owe you my life!"
And now, this adds two layers:
You think trump and the Supreme Court are colluding? now they get to say, nah uh!!!! Even though again, this is all convoluted.
trump gets to look "stronger" than the "highest court in the land" to help delude the next generation of low info tiktok folks.
P.s. The Chinese "protest" apps that were downloaded are going to mine the FUCK out of these millions of phones in the brief window they have them. Also, when the kids inevitably move back to tiktok, majority of them will still leave these other apps installed on their phones, dormant and collecting indefinitely in the background.
People like you really don’t get it. You can’t wrap your head around people not caring about their data.
There are people DYING because they don’t have access to affordable healthcare. There are families forced to live in section 8 housing because they can’t afford to feed their family and have a place to live at the same time. Our children are DYING in school while the police sit outside and watch. WE DONT GIVE A FUCK ABOUT OUR DATA.
This whole debacle should infuriate every single American. 85% of congress voted to disenfranchise 150 MILLION Americans. These assholes can’t agree on anything but they can agree on this. It’s a travesty that our elected officials can spoon feed you some bullshit about China and you forget how they don’t care about you.
You don't realize how your data not being secure contributes to all of the problems you list.
I imagine the issue is that you think "your data" means that list of your "5 favorite types of hats" you posted yesterday or that mp3 of dogs barking happy birthday on your phone - yes, that is data, but it's not really what we're talking about here. Your data collectively, in a profile that is bought and sold, is like your DNA - it is the blueprint to exactly who you are, where/why you are weak and when/how to manipulate you.
I appreciate your passion, but your blind rage here is misplaced and frankly, your position is severely ignorant of the reality you're currently operating in, in several key areas. You also seem to have wholly constructed an adversarial relationship here where you try to frame me as in support of our Congress, I am not. I don't agree with how this bill was assembled, lobbied or passed in Congress. I do understand some of the nuance though, so I consider that. As I've said, after trump introduced a tiktok ban as a pure racist distraction without any actual substance, republican think tanks took the ball and engineered this situation as a trap, so they could attack either outcome from democrats (because they are feckless, grifting cowards). Key tactic within that strategy was when Republicans held Ukraine aid hostage on the condition that they wouldn't approve spend unless the tiktok bill was allowed as well. So Congress reluctantly passed it, and Biden signed it and then he made an official statement that he or his administration would not enforce it (essentially saying, we were forced into this bullshit). So at that point, you're talking about innocent human lives under an active terrorist attack from Russia in the balance.
Again, there's a lot here you don't understand it seems. I welcome you to breathe a bit, slow down and have a discussion. Happy to chat if you need.
Sorry to be a pedant about little things, but while you're fixing typos, it's "aid" not "aide". I just mention it because it really changes the sense of "holding aid hostage."
Not at all. I can't say if autocorrect did this or my own mistake, but either way should be corrected now. Thank you for the note.
And people like you don't get that the worsening of all those problems will only accelerate under Trump's corrupt plutocracy.
I'm not saying everything you're saying here is correct but, this is exactly how a lot of people I know feel. What the replies to your comments aren't understanding is that emotions are often stronger than facts. The average American has no idea how things work but they do know how they feel about them not working. That's the reason they all have no problem handing over all their data.
What point are you trying to make, and in response to what?
You're not making a lot of sense... It also seems that you're under the impression that tiktok doesn't sell data and ad profiles like all other social media networks?
Through your odd syntax at times and non-US spellings of common words, seems likely that you aren't actually from the United States - the US being the place where this farce was perpetrated - yet you speak with an "us" and a "we"... It's strange.
Anyway, these are a few odd bits of info that seem to inform you as an unreliable source in this discussion. Are you trying to sow discord from afar, you silly little scamp?
Yes, or else wise.
Yes, in America, where the "we" that you include yourself in, resides.
Honestly, was a bit hesitant to help you realize the holes in your grift by highlighting them, but I do appreciate that you are at least willing to learn, you absolute scoundrel you.
Don't worry though, plenty of other obvious, repeated mistakes in your regular prose, that I haven't pointed out here, that also 100% give you away as you attempt to deceive folks.
Oh well! Further Innovative!
Oh boy...
Yes. Very "we" and very "us", exact sentiment and phrase choices. It's exactly like I'm speaking to an exact, accurate American person, just like me.
Sorry to inform, but you're not doing great at the whole undercover thing here... I hope your supervisor doesn't review this specific thread to evaluate your ability. Not really hitting the mark here... fellow American, typing on a Canadian keyboard.
With such accurate and compelling work though, you could probably write copy for product packaging in Chinese manufacturing facilities exporting low prices goods to the US? Or maybe you could design those t-shirts Chinese teens will wear with American phrases, that don't quite pass the test - Further innovative!!!
I think one of the response comments in the linked thread of yours, a response similar to all responses to your expressed ideas, rightly expresses concern for you and your current state. Helpful context for considering your opinions - Further innovative!
https://lemmy.world/post/24157162
I think it's a valid point that the concern being raised about tik tok is just as valid with other apps, both from Facebook or Twitter etc and from overseas apps. People are happily giving up their data and don't see a distinction in how it is being used for disinformation by different state actors. It's all misinformation.
People are apathetic to the risk, but also don't see the risk for foreign government snooping as significantly higher than internal snooping.
Personally I would've gone with a Protection Racket metaphor.