I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that same 59% completed the poll on TikTok
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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Even if it's Chinese spyware, how would they ban it? You can always install the apk from a third-party source if you're on Android.
They can ban it through other means that would involve your arrest, prosecution, and potential incarceration. If they catch your device with TikTok installed you could face those kinds of criminal penalties. Remember that your mobile phone is identifiable by IMEI to you the owner. I know that it's incredibly fascist, dystopian, and authoritarian all rolled into one but the potential does exist for this to happen. If it's banned, I don't know that I am ready to be a martyr for the cause of free speech because I don't know that I will get any help and I am just a poor working class guy that is almost always about 2 or 3 paychecks from homelessness.
A solution would be to create a proxy app of some kind. As for the poor working class guy thing, I feel you man. Things ain't getting easier.
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Good. It pretty clearly is. It's not the only one by any stretch, but "a threat" is a low bar. Would a single one of you stand confidently by it being "no threat"?
Hell, facebook is a threat to national security, and it's an American company.
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Well at least we know selling the next war will be easy. Americans still haven't learned to look past the surface of what the talking heads get paid to say.
Meanwhile the historically significant markers like wealth gap and political divide keep growing. Education, housing, and health get worse. But noooo, look at the shiny!
Well of course they're going to percieve a place where alternative ideas and organisation takes place as a threat
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I don't use tiktok because it's bad for me and makes my older phone heat up, but it's a great app that leads you to your very niche interests if you guide the algorithm to do so - that's even despite the 'heating button' that their employees use to make favoured (creators/corps) content go viral.