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We hate you
(lemmy.world)
shoots self in foot, again
That'll show em!
Ha! I am bleeding. Clearly I am the winner.
"We have purposefully trained him wrong, as a joke"
Which one is doing the shooting?
both feet are shooting in this metaphor
A foot for a foot
They really have cut off their nose to spite their face imo. Only way this makes sense to me is that the users want a noble justification for their ignoble habit.
“The data would’ve ended up in China anyway since American apps would’ve sold it.” -Rationalizations of a feed addict fiending
How's it worse for china to have it than American companies. If anything American ones have more access to you to fuck you over. All of them should be banned/heavily regulated for privacy. Not just tiktok.
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A Dennis rage tantrum really sums up their user reaction perfectly.
And it's understandable. 170 million US citizens are on TikTok. More than 1% has a significant business enterprise that has flourished in that app (not so on the other apps).
The US government, beyond just violating* the free speech of half the population, would be shooting itself in the face by banning the app, considering how much lost tax revenue is likely to occur.
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"Why are all these women so angry about not being able to vote?"
I don't trust China at all, ban all their social media app in the same way they ban ours. I would like the US to be more like the EU in terms of privacy, but China not only doesn't care, they actively try to use that data to screw over people.
Would have been easier to say that 'I know nothing about China.'
Username checks out.
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Conveniently the USA has the first amendment (which, admittedly has been being degraded over time) that, at least in spirit, should protect an individual right to publish information (such as ip packets) to another location (such as an ISP) and that other location's right to forward that information to a second location (such as a VPN) that is outside of the USA's jurisdiction.
It's like how banning advanced cryptography is practically impossible and idiotic because it is just a small amount of math. The internet protocol can be transmitted over so many different mediums that all the government could realistically do is create a bigger VPN market.
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The government says it’s for our own good and we should trust them.
Except we don’t trust them and don’t care about our own good.
To be fair they also don't are about our own good, they just want us to install some good ol home grown American spyware.
Who days we don't care about our own good? Other than the government.
Our voting habits say we don't.
Would Rednote or whatever it's called also be covered by the same ban?
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I'm too old to be up to date with American internet culture. What app are the cool kids using now?
A bunch of people moved over to 小红书 (xiaohongshu) lit. "little red book" aka RedNote. It's basically chinese instagram.
rednote
Maybe it'll circle back around again like fashion, irc, phpbb, and xmpp messengers becoming the new hip retro protocols.
This would be on-brand for the Year of the Linux Desktop and De-Googling
FOSS, self-hosting, and peer-to-peer baby, let's do it
I'm glad I never uninstalled ICQ
Uhoh!
Are you on PowWow?
Vine is gonna get reskinned
Does President Elon even know about Vine?
this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2025
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