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TikTok sounds go silent as songs disappear from app (www.independent.co.uk)

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TikTok sounds go silent as songs disappear from app::Videos across the platform have lost their audio in dramatic dispute

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[–] lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Every social media site does the exact same thing. There was just an article on here the other day about the US government buying people's information from data brokers. How is that any different? Meta has been censoring anything pro-Palestine, Twitter is a breeding ground for Nazis, YouTube picks and chooses what counts as "mature content" aka what gets monetized. The way TikTok treats privacy is how every social media platform treats it, it has nothing to do with them being Chinese.

[–] abhibeckert@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Every social media site does the exact same thing

I sure hope Blåhaj Lemmy isn't doing any of that crap.

the US government buying people’s information from data brokers. How is that any different?

Um, isn't that obvious? The US government accesses information collected by private companies. The Chinese government controls a source of news that is used by billions of people. Those are totally different things.

Sure, TikTok insists they have no ties to the government. But there's plenty of evidence exposing that as a blatant lie.

Not sure what Meta/Twitter/YouTube have to do with this. Bringing them up is at best a distraction. If you don't trust them (I don't, for the record) don't use those platforms. Simple.

[–] lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 9 months ago

There was literally a Senate hearing today about KOSA, the bill allowing the US government the legal grounds to control sources of information on the internet. So no, they aren't totally different things.

And I was specifically referring to this part that OP said:

I heard that the Chinese Communist Party was collecting some worrying amount of information on their user base

The only difference between the Chinese government and the US government collecting information is that the US goes through a middleman who aggregates it from multiple sources.

Meta/Twitter/YouTube have everything to do with this because they're doing the exact same thing. Do I need to mention the numerous times Facebook has been sued for illegal data collection? Cambridge Analytica ring a bell?

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

If you are warry of all of them I don't think the argument is aimed at you.

Many people think tik too is the devil while willingly feeding the other ones. Not to mention that the hate aimed at tik too is mostly manufactured by the government.

I think the point is that all of them should be held to a higher standard, not just the one owned by foreigners.