I'm honestly surprised more content creators on TikTok haven't raised a stink about this from what I've seen. Agree with it or not, for some people this is their livelihood.
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Most content creators that I know have either openly stated that they prefer it shutting down because it's such a royal pain in the ass to use TikTok since it's audience is so different than their other platforms, or have said they stopped using it without showing a position, the only reason they used it in the first place is because that's where the audience is but they would much prefer other alternatives
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Do it. Let the US be a closed censored state like it desperately wants to be.
They'll even put the hashtag #freespeach when they deliver their ban.
Do it. Let the hate flow through you.
noooo not the cringe app!! everything but the cringe app
Should Facebook be banned in China?
Already is, but should we compare US and China in terms of censorship?
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TikTok might start being not shit after this, but I'm not risking exposure until I have confirmation
I wonder if they'll sell or go down in flames.
If they sell, it'll just become overly moderated like Facebook.
If they go down in flames, a bunch of overnight competitors will compete to succeed.
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There will just be a new (US based) TikTok copycat that springs up, or many. Banning one social media cancer doesn't stop the others
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It weirds me out that I can easily see a post is in lemmy.world by the comments
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A lot of people are saying that the US government banned TikTok, but from what I'm understanding, that's not really what happened and what's happening. Or have I misinterpreted things? From what I understand, they were told they had to divest and sell, but they fought that and now are opting to shutdown rather than comply. Is that not the case?
Either way, I'm gonna go all "I walked to school uphill both ways barefoot in a meter of snow" on this and say that my very little experience with TikTok users seems to suggest that its not much more than pure, unadulterated brain rot. So regardless of the fact(s) (i.e. shutdown / banned / etc), there's maybe the tiniest sliver of a net positive here. Or not. It doesn't affect me one way or the other and given where this country is politically (as well as where it is headed), I don't give a rat poopoo.
I'm posting the same comment in two replies here now, terrible behaviour, but yes exactly this was an attempt to force a sale and get tiktok into American ownership.
It feels very neat that America would think tiktok would ultimately choose the option where it gets more money, but that the Chinese instead choose control.
that being the case, doesn't that provide more merit to tiktok being a data mining operation that China uses against American interests?
how dare you bring an enlightened perspective into the Chinese brain rot on this platform! /s
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