TikTok pays to fly out creators to Washington as CEO is grilled by Congress
TikTok is doing everything it can to prevent the federal government from banning the app in the United States, even resorting to paying to fly creators on the popular app to Washington to protest on Capitol Hill.
tbh they don’t give a fuck about the chinese connection, they care that information is disseminated on the platform that they aren’t in control of.
Was gonna say, i don't use this app, never will. But Im not sure banning anything does anything, except create a black market for banned thing. Especially now that the Biden regime wants it gone, nah I wanna keep it. They probably know the Chinese are about to throw them all UNDER the bus, like a textbook communist would do. Bravo Pooh bear, fuck them up.
Running theory is US intel agencies want the data and YT and FB are seeing their conduit to our data dwindle. China is collecting out data and using it to spy when they can
If anyone thinks our government's not already accessing/selling our data, everything on our phones, our computers, anything else they can get their hands on to the Chinese then I have a bridge to sell you. Nobody needs a stupid app to get our information. Just like the vaccine if our whole government is going hard against it maybe we should think about the real reason why.
I'd say TikTok is different, because it's captivated the youth, where is other apps are losing or have lost the youth.
The youth are the biggest demographic companies worldwide work hardest to target, and are most out of touch with.
My stepdaughter became based because of TikTok. A lot of her friends eyes are being opened because of that app as well. It's exposing the youth to viewpoints that they don't get anywhere else.
This is oddly true. I see it with my Zoomers. Of course I’ve given them the critical thinking skills to navigate that shit and discern truth from bullshit.
What model are you using to communicate critical thinking skills?
That's so interesting, it seems tiktok is mainly about being addictive, and giving users exactly what they want more than anything.
There's lots of based stuff on there, hands down. I won't use it, but I'm also a millennial, so I like here and telegram mainly.
Monopoly of that data is what I mean. They don't want anyone else to have it.
My whole thing is, our data is out there for everyone already. The reason the government is going hard against TikTok is not because they love us.
I also think that TikTok may be the reason that this new generation is becoming more based than the previous generations have been lately. They are being exposed to different viewpoints on TikTok.
It’s always about $$$
Googlag and fuckbook hate that TT is eclipsing them. Taking their money. Can’t have that!
The government never does anything out of love, its a black hole that takes and takes and gives nothing back.
They want a US tech company to own Tim Tok. Tells me that the ChiComms aren't sharing the data and they want to bring it in house.
Can't they just access the info and data up stream from tt? Or is that not a thing?
When you realize they just want control, then it all makes sense. This is a power grab on a large platform that the US wants more control over.
That's incredibly naive of you to think the US intelligence agencies need a shitty Chinese app to spy on us. Do you not remember Snowden?
Why is our side so dumb? If you've used your phones map function, they know. If you have a tablet, tv, speaker, lights, security system, activated by voice, they're listening. The uniparty hates you. You should hate them back.
I can literally think about something and never even say it out loud, and my fucking phone knows about it.
This right here. It's very weird. I don't know how it knows, but it's happened many times to me. Very specific topics too.
It's as if the 5G thing is really a thing. It literally reads our minds I guess.
Not just spy but think of what they can do. Blackmail and reselling data back to advertisers. They have a double edge sword to exert political pressure and a cash cow. You can bet they are leveraging this data. At some point they might sell this data back to the US gov't when they finally get around to rounding up Trump supporters for internment camps.
The Chinese got lock on data collection of the next generation that's what worries them. 10 years ago you'd get number and Facebook from someone, then for a while was Instagram now days is TikTok with the younger crowds.
They really see Facebook as boomer book/outdated.
It is. If I owned fuckbook stonks I’d be unloading
I love when random chinese people on Facebook message me wanting to talk about 1: my research and 2: investing... Hahahaha!!!
US Tech Cartel has paid to have the Chinese dealer of digital drugs taken out.
Thats because they couldn't compete with the Chinese product. Not because they care about the junkies.
Tik Tok lobbying efforts seem amateurish.
I would highly suggest any naysayers go to TikTok and search something they want to know about, and then get back to me.
After watching the hearing I installed the app and searched tiennamen square (sp - no autocorrect..? Hmmmm)
There tons of critical content. It’s not blocked here in the US. They may be curating some but there’s tons of truth there.
I uninstalled it immediately after though
Your device is already permenantly compromised
Buy to be fair if all the other intel.services are already there ....
Who gives a fuck lol anybody who thinks their data is safe is fucking retarded
Touche
Exactly! The other social media companies sell data to China. Not to mention the illegitimate president let's Chinese spy balloons fly over the country. They're not protecting us from China, they're protecting themselves.
My entire point in a nutshell.
Let's be honest since we're talking about it. Let's stop pretending our government cares about what China is collecting. Our government wants Tik Tok banned because conservatives are using it overwhemingly to share information they don't want us to share - and because it's a China app - they want it banned. Let's also be 100% fair here. The CEO answered every question and our congress looked like absolute idiot boomers asking those ignorant questions. All of this while FB is collecting data, banning P.Win, leaking user information, donating hundreds of millions to elections. This same congress won't do a damn thing about things that benefit them when it hurts us. I hope Tik Tok stays unless ALL platforms are banned. Fuck congress. They are the bad guys.
"dOeS tikTAk cOnnECt tO pEoPle'S WifI?!?!?"
Seriously some of the stupidest questions I've ever heard.
They're just too technologically inept to ask the real questions.
https://youtu.be/wtGwlQWqQWs
I just posted a comment in this thread saying just about the same thing that you're saying. It doesn't make sense that the whole fucking government is trying to ban something that a lot of people like and a lot of information is being disseminated on. Since when has our government gave one shit about what China is doing? We are educating ourselves any way we can, and it scares the shit out of them, and it must stop.
They're starting to wake up china is the threat not Russia. Still too retarded to acquiesce to Russia to have them on our side in an eventual stand off with the Chinese. I really am starting to think the gay retards leading the u.s. military think nuclear weapons are offensive tactical weapons. They are always last recourse defensive weapons.
The dude brought up facebook and cambridge analytica as a clapback.
Why did Trump want it banned then?
Democrats love China
I don't.
Trump wanted it banned because China. Truno also wanted every other social media platform held accountable.
Exactly, why TF is there a gay brigade in here supporting TikTok suddenly?
It's always been a piece of shit extension of the CCP the moment they bought it
Tiktok was used to coordinate BLM riots. Supposedly the suggestion algorithms even started suggesting riot instructions to non-rioters in kind of an incitement.
Indicates China doesn't care about which side it supports, as long as both sides are attacking each other.
And that's just life. If they don't care which side it supports, then people are gonna just do people things on it. BLM riots were also openly organized on FB on group pages that were clearly designated as ANTIFA and BLM pages. None of these platforms stopped it.
I hated the idea of TikTok until I realized that I can put my thoughts out there almost completely without being censored and you can find a community for basically any interest you have. It's much more effective than trying to use YouTube or really any other platform. Last year I would have been like "Yeah! Ban that shit!" but now that I have been using it for Christian ministry, my thoughts have changed on it.
Not to mention there are so many live TikToks on there debating everything you can think about. Tick tock is the one place that is really encouraging different groups to have a dialogue with one another instead of just hating each other.
Shill much?
Only for free speech
On a communist app, got it
Ok, CCP
It's almost as if looking into something first hand and experiencing, researching it for yourself rather than letting the "experts" dictate your life, is the answer.
My impression in the past was that TikTok was full of nothing but narcissistic, thirsty people doing dances and promoting themselves. It wasn't until recently that I realized that you could really curate your feed and get lots of informative content.
It is almost like that.
I don't understand why people feel the need to "put my thoughts out there." You could just not.
Tiktok is by far the closest place you will ever find to being an actual marketplace of ideas, the system will push you into content you agree and disagree with, eliminating echo chamber proliferation. Good ideas there can survive strict scrutiny while lousy ideas collapse. Nothing is being artificially propped up there as far as I am aware.
Because I'm a Christian and I was told to spread the Gospel. Easy answer. If you would rather that I not, I don't really care.
Okee dokee then 🤘
You just did here. See how that works?
Tictok is gay but congress is gayer
Trump was in the process of banning it too, if you can remember back that far. Is he gay?
I'm ready for the downvotes I guess but I'm on TikTok and I found a church to belong to there. There's so much based information on there about gardening and being off-grid. Pretty much any topic you can think of. It doesn't give me a whole bunch of woke stuff because it knows that I don't like that. It gives me all kinds of information that I don't get from YouTube or anywhere else. There's news there that Patriots are showing, and it seems like it doesn't get censored for the most part. I don't know how to feel about them going so hard against TikTok. Anything the uniparty goes so hard against, should ask the question why, and isn't necessarily for the reasons they say. After all, look at how hard they all went to get us vaccinated. China maybe getting our information from TikTok but does anyone here honestly think they're not getting our information from anything that we post on ANY platform? You just have to question any time the government is trying to silence any avenue of free speech. I've been on this earth long enough to know what I should trust as far as information goes. I'm a big boy I can take care of myself. I don't need for people to ban shit because it's in my best interest. Anyway rant over, have a blessed day people.
That's great and I'm happy for you, but "good people use TikTok" doesn't negate the fact that, once you install it, it accesses all your photos, all your screenshots. It scans every keystroke you make - even in other apps. If you recorded your thumbprint it takes that info. It takes your emails and texts and everything else and sends it all to the communist Chinese government, which wants you either a slave or dead.
Fuck communism, fuck China, and fuck TikTok. Your church is cool though.
Our government already does that for us though, so what's the difference. I'm not a big fan of TikTok...but if they kill it, YouTube Shorts comes in and gets the business instead. YouTube is arguably even worse.
What's the best way to fight a bad guy with a TikTok? A good guy with a TikTok.
“Fuck you, fuck you, you’re cool, I’m out!”
I use a web browser with a fake account to view and interact. I never make videos. The web browser is not signed in, has blocked referrers, blocked 3rd party cookies and everything else deletes on close, and has adblock. Tik tok knows I use a hackintosh, my screen resolution, and browser version. Big whoop
That's how I view it, too. Only through the browser. Never signing in. Never downloading the app.
I do not disagree with you on most of your points, but I honestly think they had everything before TikTok was even a thing. Also it may be good for the Chinese to see what all of us Patriots are talking about. It is my opinion that whatever I talk about doesn't make two shits to anybody because who am I, just one dude doing my thing. I appreciate your comment about my church. Have a blessed day!
I was honestly anticipating getting downvoted to hell and back. That's why I love this forum. People here can truly be reasonable.
Which church
simply_poetry79 is the user that leads the group that I go to when he's live. These people really love God and really inspire me! My handle is much.flamingo2 on there in case you come to the live and see me on there.
Nice beard! Following!
I use TikTok in moderation and not daily. The information I get is based af. A lot of people just like … “us” here. Stuff you won’t see on YouTube. People shitting on lefties and Biden. The government hates it because they can’t control it.
And let’s be honest, the government has been skimming our data for YEARS. China could just buy it instead of going through all the trouble with advertisers, app stores, hiring workers, etc
It’s also telling the government cares more about TikTok then fucking GOOGLE
That's what I'm saying. If our government hates it so much how bad can it really be?
Hi shill. Trump was banning it too...
And was stopped. And he didn't push the issue like he really wanted it banned.
yeah he did, China is asshoe, the ONLY reason the TT servers are still in the USA under Oracle is because of Trump.
That's shit would be 100% China based if he didn't speak up... he was trying to ban it too, but Presidents can't just wave a pen, and he knew that too.
We all know the commie dangers of China, you know it... stop shilling, you're not getting paid... or are you?
No, I get better info from TikTok after telling the algorithm what to show me than any other form of media, this site included.
No one asked that
You just implied that TikTok must be good because democrats hate it. Wrong They love china, they loved TikTok when Trump was trying to ban it.
Go back to your weeaboo safe space on le leddit, pedo. TikTok shills like you can go right into the dumpster with Fettermans body.
Democrats do this shit all the time, why don't they get called out for it?
Fuk ChikChok
LOTS of men that chopped their dicks off
Until they ban chinese owned Trovo and NSA owned Google & Bing for similar user data mining practices and breaches of privacy these actions are a half hearted, hypocritical, insincere distraction.
So, was Trump that too? He was trying to ban it.
Tik tok is destroying our teens
A lack of effective parenting is killing our teens
Parents are at a disadvantage, some more than others. I am able to keep the wife at home. I work with teenagers often, and tik tok is melting their fucking brains
Last I checked, parents pay the bills for children. Parents who cave to peer pressure can’t possibly expect their kids to resist peer pressure either
Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, and Youtube all have the same scrolling video features. Banning TikTok isn’t going to save their brains. The push against TikTok is to get rid of the based content that isn’t being censored.
YouTube Shorts is basically the same shit, though...and the kids will just melt their brain with that. It's the same thing, they know what the kids are addicted to.
"MuH vidEo GaMeS arE GoIng to ProDuce saTanist and mAss sHooTers!"
ANNNND behold: The new big app is ByteDance's CapCut, which is to TikTok in 2023 what Instagram was the Fb in 2011--dethroning them in downloads. But the big difference is that ByteDance ALREADY owns Capcut, whereas Meta paid $1,000,000,000 for Instagram in April 2012, after it had been growing faster than Facebook for a year and a half. It was released in April 2020. Another win for China as they continue to take over everything in Xiden's America! See this WSJ article from the other day:
https://archive.is/4yTOV
Just a blurb here, but soon to have its own article as soon as the celebrities get involved and the highly publicized CapCut trends and controversies begin:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance#CapCut
That article went from 5K visits two days ago to 36K visits yesterday:
https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&range=latest-20&pages=ByteDance
What they need to address is why the app is different in China than it is in US
What’s it called when a foreign nation pays people to attack another nation?
Democrat policy
Ban this CCP spyware already
Any company operating in China could arguably be "Chinese spyware."
It's almost as if this thread is brigaded by a bunch of TikTok shills today. Trump wanted that shit gone too!
To really ban CCP spyware you would honestly have to ban the entire internet.
it has to stay around so i can keep using my joke on nurses until the end of time:
"so you're a nurse huh? let's see your best tiktok dance."
You can't ban Sean Hannity's favorite app.
This is the way.
Obviously. I could tell that just based on the signs they were all holding when I saw a photo from said protest the other day. One was about someone using tiktok to grow their business. While I'm sure that is true for some, it is unlikely it applies to the communist they paid to hold it.
Clowns on the way to the circus.
China whores are gonna whore
TenCent enters the chat
Do we really believe that Twitter and Facebook are doing the same sort of data mining? Don't shit yourself, Twitter and Facebook are probably guilty of much worse but we're going to point the finger at tick tock
Anytime the government "our representatives" do something under the guise of "National Security"... remember our 1) Our border is wide open 2) the jab is still distributed even to children 3) our presidential elections are proven rigged with no consequences.
Is this about national security and data collection? Or is it about 150 million users sharing real time information across a simple platform that the government doesn't have its claws in yet?
Also anytime you find yourself thinking something is dangerous, remember to yourself, "where did I come up with that idea? Who told me it was dangerous? Are they trustworthy? Do they deserve my confidence and support? "
Exactly, Trump alerted the mainstream to the dangers of TikTok. I've known it's a cesspool since it was Music.ly
Like Antifa and BLM
Who set THAT precedent?
Fiery, but mostly creative people?
Google and fakebook are far more worse than TicTok at collecting data on Americans, DOJ just mad they can't control it
or make money off of it
Explain Trump wanting to ban it then
China owns our puppet president so why should we care who owns TT
Trump was banning it, you're a shill
Anyone against TikTok loses my vote. TikTok is awesome. They are only mad because they don't control it. TikTok is collecting no more information than Facebook or Google. DeSantis, Trump and one eye rhino prick are all wrong. There are 150 million Americans on TikTok. This is all driven by the typical fear and lobbying by Facebook who thinks we are going to return to Facebook and Instagram because TikTok is eating their lunch. Not going to happen Zuckerdouche.
Let them eat Tide Pods on Capitol Hill as a form of protest.
Ah TikTok, the app where people are so dumb, they literally called a mother who was angry at a pedo a pervert. TikTok is truly worse than cancer.
Honestly I think this is mostly crap. So if they ban TikTok, so what? The kids will just move over to YouTube Shorts which is just as bad.
Now that is insurrection