TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy

Re:TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy by stingraycharles on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @01:49AM (#32315532)

I’m sorry but I just can’t believe that you’re being downvoted so much. It’s the exact same point I was trying to make, is it not obvious - or at least a valid argument of discussion - that the significant difference between TikTok and other social media companies is that they’re Chinese?

Nobody is defending China here I think, but the elephant in the room is that TikTok isn’t that much different from other social media platforms in terms of addictive behaviour, data harvesting, etc. The fact that this is done by a Chinese company, however, is what makes it significantly different.

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Re:TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy by alex_smart on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @01:58AM (#32315592)

If anything, the content on TikTok itself is far more inoccuous than what has been already allowed to run amok on other social media platforms. Can anybody honestly argue that the silly dance numbers and "funny" vines on TikTok are more dangerous than the toxic political propaganda on FB, Whatsapp and Youtube?

>I’m sorry but I just can’t believe that you’re being downvoted so much.

I can believe it just fine. It is very predictable behavior.

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Re:TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy by skinnymuch on Sunday August 07, 2022 @09:00PM (#32381442)

There’s enough political propaganda on TikTok too. It just happens to be newer than the rest.

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Re:TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy by benjaminwootton on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @02:46AM (#32315823)

They are just better at exactly the same game.

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