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.
What part of the argument has no basis in reality?
These are the facts:
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.
No, they’re angry that this game, although it is in the same genre, got no originality or creativity from it’s makers. It’s an almost exact copy.
You know what’s weird? When writing I knew something was off. I am convinced I wouldn’t have made this mistake 5 years ago. I definitely know the difference between “to cease” and “to seize” and in this context “to cease” is the obvious choice. It’s like I know it’s wrong, I think about it and the actual correct verb just doesn’t come to mind and I leave it as is.
Fluent in English, the last years I found words not coming to mind happens more often. I have wondered many times if this is a result of multiple covid infections I had. There are stories that hint in that direction, but no real scientific evidence I believe. Anyhow, it’s pretty frustrating.
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Thanks, It dld already look weird to me when I wrote it. Corrected.
Yesterday on the radio they explained that the Russians are going all-in to gain as much land as possible before the Trump presidency starts.
Trumps plan for peace is a seize cease fire where Russia gets to keep the borders as they are now. This means Ukraine will need to give up more of their land again, which of course is a win for Russia.
It will also allow Russia to replenish their military, learn from their mistakes and do another invasion in 5-10 years.
This is the reason Russia is now going all-in. They think they don’t need to ration their troops or ammo, they want to gain as much ground as possible in the next six weeks.
This could also give Ukraine an advantage if they play their cards right.
It means in six weeks the Russians will be at their weakest in years, with little ammo and men, but maybe with some ground gained, they are weak to defend.
I don’t think Trump is playing 4d chess here and that the Trump administration is smart enough to see this situation and change their plan, to actually do an uno reverse and force Russia to give up their gains under threat of providing the Ukraine with extra support, but the EU might be.
There is already talk of boots on the ground in the Ukraine. So even if the US doesn’t back them, hopefully the EU will and they can use the Russians aggression against them by taking advantage of this situation.
I would at least hope that as part of the negotiations the Ukraine negotiates a couple of nuclear weapons they can use to deter any future invasion, and that they become part of NATO, so article 5 can be invoked.
Why are they removing support though?
Exactly this. He made an offer publicly, which was accepted and legally binding. He overpaid substantially and proceeded to run the company into the ground.
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?