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Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 54 points 1 year ago (31 children)

I remain utterly convinced that Tiktok is nothing but a chinese psyop experiment to see how far they can manipulate people into actions that would otherwise be prevented by our brains screaming in self preservation.

Has there ever been a "good" trend on tiktok? Every week its just another destructive thing that gullible idiots are being tricked into doing.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Soon as Chump took office the moderation flipped. It was open and handled well. Now if you call a corrupt politician an asshole you get a violation.

    Talk about Palestine get a violation. Critical of the Chump regime get a violation.

    Chow somehow inserted himself fully up Chumps ass on like Jan 22. TT hasn't been the same since.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    TikTok always favored Trump because China always favored Trump and TikTok is operated by Chinese Military directly out of Chinese servers which also store location data, contacts, text message history, and photo library of every device which has ever installed TikTok.

    It's a weapon to be used against the US now and since always.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    [...] TikTok is operated by Chinese Military directly out of Chinese servers which also store location data, contacts, text message history, and photo library of every device which has ever installed TikTok.

    It wouldn't surprise me, but can you point me to a trustworthy source confirming that claim? Also, does the TikTok app refuse to work without those permissions granted (Location, Contacts, SMS, Photos and videos)?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    Years ago it was reported on by Internet 2.0 which was shared by news organizations such as Huffington Post. Additionally there was this guy on Reddit 5 years ago who decompiled the app and shared all the results on a subreddit made specifically for it LINK HERE and he claims that the app is literally more malware-like data collection than actual video playing app, like the amount of install data is mostly just the data collection tools.

    There were also House of Representatives intelligence briefings that went public but god those things are hard to sit through and read.

    If TikTok didn't want these stories swept under the rug and if there wasn't truth to these stories they could have sued these people for defamation. But they didn't, implying they would have lost the case handily and looked bad for it.

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  • [+] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)
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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    back in our day, our stupid wasnt malicious mass destruction or food tampering.

    It was actual stupid shit, like trying to jump over your friend as he raced towards you on his bike, or falling off a roof, Shit that only hurt yourself, if anyone. Wasnt breaking and entering and destroying shit so people in the next town over would think you were cool. We were stupid, but we werent that stupid.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    People have just been doing dumb things for reputation since forever. We had the cinnamon challenge back in our day.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    yeah, the cinnamon challenge was dumb.. but it didnt involve mass destruction, psychotic behavor, or contaminating food\ in stores.

    So its hardly comparable.

    Also it wasnt Tiktok. Predates it, significantly.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Has there ever been a "good" trend on tiktok?

    The ice bucket challenge was making rounds again. But there's basically infinite harmless trends that nobody thinks of. The 100 men versus 1 gorilla thing is a trend and unless somebody jumps in a gorilla pen for Harambe 2.0 it's been harmless.

    Reminder that the ice bucket challenge is something that raises awareness and funds for ALS research.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Sees teenagers doing dumb shit, like they have since literally forever

    "Is this a plot by the despotic orientals?!"

    Fucking listen to yourself. I'm not on TikTok. I just don't care for vertical short-form video as a concept. But even I can tell you that not every TikTok trend is teenagers being destructive idiots.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    oh wow the .ml user is getting super offended over criticism of china/russia.

    how original

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Russia isn't even a part of this discussion. I'm honestly more offended by your opinions of teenagers.

    But that aside, it's not about "defending" these States. It's that your tone is dripping with orientalist racism

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    It's curated to cause problems, I wouldn't believe anything otherwise. Douyin which is the Chinese version shows completely different content, including government narratives. Tiktok is straight brain rot, and I believe it's curated to encourage poor behavior in users outside of China.

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