Re:Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony
by rightbyte on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @03:25AM
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> We're currently in a zero sum ideological war with them in which they have meddled in at least two of our last elections
Oh come on stop with this.
People need to chill.
Re:Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony
by xyzelement on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @11:38AM
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Without taking sides on the content, your response to him sounds like what one would say after they ran out of actual argument.
Re:Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony
by rightbyte on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @12:40PM
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No, it is the response of someone about to become psychotic from all the war mongering that got into fashion lately.
Re:Nepal bans TikTok and says it disrupts social harmony
by xyzelement on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @03:17PM
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Just to reflect that back to you - you're responding to some folks (including myself) who are presenting a game-theoretic argument, and your response stems from "I am about to become psychotic."
If your goal is to persuade others to think more like you, "coming from a crazy place" isn't a good way to do that. If you think that people are making an illogical argument, then either present a parallel argument or better yet find the flaw in their logic.
The way you're engaging makes it seem like "logic" is on one side and "psychosis" is on the other side - so someone reading this who could be persuaded one way or the other, has zero reason to go with you.
Even if those claims are not true for whatever reason—why is the claim that they want to polarize the west through TikTok hard to believe? We're currently in a zero sum ideological war with them in which they have meddled in at least two of our last elections, they have spyware in internationally exported Huawei equipment, etc.
Their recommendation algorithm is a black box, and if they weren't doing anything heinous they could possibly provide some audit trail for US regulators or US employees to inspect. As far as I know they haven't provided much here to improve public perception or lower their risk of getting shut down.