TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy

Re:TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy by benjaminwootton on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @02:44AM (#32315814)

So TikTok are just playing exactly the same game, but playing it so well to the extent they should be regulated or banned?

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Re:TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy by mrcheesebreeze on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @10:36AM (#32319033)

exactly, they managed to make the level of addiction somehow even higher than yt or facebook.

In my opinion all of them should be restricted more, but tiktok was proven to do a lot of damage in a short time.

If facebook is like weed, tiktok is like crack.

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Re:TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy by jasonm23 on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @05:23AM (#32329461)

Facebook is actually like heroin, so what's TikTok now, fentanyl?

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Re:TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy by sofixa on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @02:59AM (#32315887)

That's one of the ways anti-trust works, yes. If you're just a business doing a thing, no problem. If you get so good you become a de facto monopoly in some area, and start to exploit that dominant position in whatever way, it's time for regulations or a forceful breaking up to constraint you.

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Re:TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy by aaomidi on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @08:34AM (#32317703)

TikTok is far from a monopoly though. Also break it up to what? The app is effectively a single feature.

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