• BlueJayOakerson@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Probably plenty. Tik tok is just the biggest owned by a foreign government that also is showing pretty immediate extreme negative effects on children’s attention spans and learning capabilities.

    But people are still gonna whine because they’re 25 year olds who need to watch 80 videos of unboxing shoes in 4 minutes . That’s really the only pro tik tok argument there is.

    • neo (he/him)@lemmy.comfysnug.space
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      7 months ago

      It sets a pretty chilling precedent that non-American competition can be forced to sell to Americans for (insert arbitrary reason here).

      I am in favor of TikTok at least becoming restricted to adults only if not outright banned, just warning about the consequences of doing it this way.

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        7 months ago

        It’s owned by the CCP who is currently trying to undermine our election. It tried to do it in Taiwan where I currently live.

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          7 months ago

          It’s owned by the CCP who is currently trying to undermine our election

          Not that this may not be true, but the USA undermines it’s own foundation of democracy

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            7 months ago

            While the US government is not perfect, it still is OUR own government. The CCP is a literal adversary.

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              7 months ago

              So it’s ok when Republicans undermine democracy… As long as they are not Chinese, got it

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                7 months ago

                Some of the republicans are already compromised by Putin. Certainly not ok.

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      7 months ago

      I’m guessing you’ve never been on TikTok. It’s a pretty good news source and information disseminator. Your algorithm feeds you what you pick so if you linger on posts from physical therapists and psychologists about child development, that’s what you learn about. If you linger on political posts highlighting our local and federal government’s corruption, you get that.

      I’m all for banning it (and all social media) for children, but if you think TikTok is all trash TV, you’ve been successfully propagandized.