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US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 208 points 2 years ago (26 children)

So when do they plan to do something about those domestic businesses trying to manipulate citizens of America?

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  • [–] 118 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Capitalism abusing citizens? Just fine.

    "Communism" abusing citizens? Avengers, assemble!

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    They're prospective communists. Supposedly they're going to get there by 2050, but they just built a new massive luxury tower for their ultra wealthy so...

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  • [–] 59 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I mean, the domestic businesses are the ones who own Congress and are using it to get rid of a competitor.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (15 children)

    While you're not wrong about double standards, anything that discourages the use of vapid social media platforms is a win in my book. Use whatever backwards logic you like to make it happen so long as it's effective.

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago (13 children)

    He says, on a social media platform

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (12 children)

    Lemmy is a message board, not social media. Like fark or something awful. You have no idea who the duck i am. How is that social?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Users create and/or share content, check. Users discuss content, check.

    Unless you think something is missing from that definition, Lemmy is social media. It is pseudonymous, but it is still social because of the users.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Since when did that define social media? That's the same thing as IRC. is IRC social media?

    ICQ had message boards where people would chat about the news. Was that social media?

    Again, fark is a place where people share content and discuss the news. Is that social media?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Bruh.

    forms of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (such as videos)

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    My tiktok account is also anonymous.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Your Lemmy account can likely be used to identify you, given a big enough data set.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Undoubtedly, especially since I haven't taken particular steps to obfuscate my identity here.

    But as I said in a comment below, I'm more worried about some unhinged nutbag online randomly targeting me than being a person of interest by any nefarious groups or organizations.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    No it isn’t.

    When you download the app you let them have the following information/data about you:

    Purchases, location, contacts, search history, identifiers (!!), diagnostics, financial info, contact info, user content, browsing history, and usage data.

    Please tell us how any of that is “anonymous”.

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