TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy

Re:TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy by mbgerring on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @12:52AM (#32315220)

All algorithmic media feeds should be banned, and this is especially true of platforms subject to explicit state censorship and control

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Re:TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy by charcircuit on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @01:09AM (#32315333)

There is too much information on the internet. There is always going to be an algorithm on how it should be sorted for your consumption.

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Re:TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy by Ekaros on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @02:13AM (#32315653)

And what is the alternative? Purely random from all of the content on platform?

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Re:TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy by mbgerring on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @04:11AM (#32316245)

Yeah it was called RSS and it was great

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Re:TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy by sinalalgedonico on Friday August 05, 2022 @12:22AM (#32351618)

Yes but no. It's best to give the knobs for the people to control the algorithm and it's shown for them. Also make the algorithm transparent to the user

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Re:TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy by 16amxn16 on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @01:07AM (#32315318)

Banned by who? The state? Wouldn't that be considered state censorship and control?

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