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Re:FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app stores ove... by lmm on Thursday June 30, 2022 @02:05AM (#31929123)
> Nobody forced anyone to install TikTok at gunpoint. Presumably, if there was a more compelling domestic product, the kids would go there instead. Why has that product failed to materialize?

TikTok had zero qualms about making their algorithm favour pretty people, rich people, people with lighter skin.... What American product manager would dare suggest doing that?

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Re:FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app stores ove... by npteljes on Thursday June 30, 2022 @07:18AM (#31931011)
I agree with you - the less inhibitions they have, the more popular they can get. From this standpoint, morals and sensitivity to certain things just add friction to popularity. If someone does this in polictics, they call it populism.

Now, of course, this isn't a holy grail for success. But it's a factor.

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