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Re:Trump gives nod to Oracle buyout of TikTok in US by krspykrm on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @12:00PM (#24211848)
It's cognitive dissonance. America is supposed to be the good guys, but on American social media everyone is toxic and hates each other and it's all full of political and corporate AstroTurfing; China is supposed to be the bad guys, but on TikTok everyone's happy and enjoying themselves and the content is organic and largely apolitical.

The easiest way to get rid of the cognitive dissonance is not to fix US social media, but to get rid of TikTok.

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Re:Trump gives nod to Oracle buyout of TikTok in US by lenkite on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @12:29PM (#24212275)
That's because TikTok does pretty heavy 'auditing' - the content is NOT organic at all. Only the good-looking people and the happy videos go to the top. The others go to the bottom or are 'disappeared'
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Re:Trump gives nod to Oracle buyout of TikTok in US by Barrin92 on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @02:50PM (#24214500)
>Only the good-looking people and the happy videos go to the top.

I don't know what problem the US has with it then, they've already assimilated, Hollywood would be jealous

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Re:Trump gives nod to Oracle buyout of TikTok in US by smallchungus on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @01:07PM (#24212804)
Congrats you just described society.
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Re:Trump gives nod to Oracle buyout of TikTok in US by lenkite on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @02:32PM (#24214204)
This has little to do with "society". Its policy.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-...

https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/tiktok-app-moderators-us...

https://www.businessinsider.com/internal-guidelines-show-tik...

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Re:Trump gives nod to Oracle buyout of TikTok in US by smallchungus on Thursday August 20, 2020 @09:19AM (#24222908)
And the policy was written by........?
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Re:Trump gives nod to Oracle buyout of TikTok in US by garmaine on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @12:10PM (#24212004)
Or it could be that we just don’t like apps that exist to Hoover up personal information and/or be state sponsored spying endpoints, no matter who makes them.
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Re:Trump gives nod to Oracle buyout of TikTok in US by MrBuddyCasino on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @02:36PM (#24214263)
Correct answer, downvoted of course since this is HN. I personally don’t care about privacy too much, but the way TikTok operates and its ties with the Chinese government is more than a little concerning. The videos are fun, too bad about the content.
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Re:Trump gives nod to Oracle buyout of TikTok in US by impassionedrule on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @04:17PM (#24215749)
As someone that uses Keepass on Android, I find it extremely disturbing that it was reading my clipboard without permission.

Thankfully I only had TikTok for a day (ironically copied my TikTok password to the clipboard).

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Re:Trump gives nod to Oracle buyout of TikTok in US by trasz on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @03:56PM (#24215467)
It would be correct if it didn’t ignore the fact that US-based companies do the exact same thing.
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Re:Trump gives nod to Oracle buyout of TikTok in US by garmaine on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @11:22PM (#24219552)
And I'm angry about that too.
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