TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm–It’s Your Phone

Re:TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm–It’s Your Phone by jryhjythtr on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @06:06AM (#33529790)

WW3 started years ago, and we have only just started to realise. The objective of this war is to turn the citizens of your enemies' countries into useless, self-absorbed, self-hating nobodies.

For those of you who have read The Hobbit, I see the "Culture War" as something more akin to the scene in that book where the trolls were turned to stone. That is - while we may think we are involved in some great "culture war", fighting the (online) forces of anti-democracy, bigotry, racism, etc etc - actually all that is intended is that we are arguing amongst ourselves.

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Re:TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm–It’s Your Phone by novalis78 on Thursday November 10, 2022 @03:47AM (#33543860)

I have come to a similar conclusion. The intelligence services seem to be completely oblivious to any of it and are still staring at the horizon for some enemy plane to enter their territorial space when at home their daughters and at college their sons get run over by algorithmically enhanced fine-tuned propaganda: to either weaken their bodies, drug up their minds or cannibalize their culture. That’s taking the second front of the late Cold War to an entirely new level of warfare.

But maybe I am mistaken.

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