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by krspykrm 2128 days ago
It's cognitive dissonance. America is supposed to be the good guys, but on American social media everyone is toxic and hates each other and it's all full of political and corporate AstroTurfing; China is supposed to be the bad guys, but on TikTok everyone's happy and enjoying themselves and the content is organic and largely apolitical.

The easiest way to get rid of the cognitive dissonance is not to fix US social media, but to get rid of TikTok.
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lenkite 2128 days ago
That's because TikTok does pretty heavy 'auditing' - the content is NOT organic at all. Only the good-looking people and the happy videos go to the top. The others go to the bottom or are 'disappeared'
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Barrin92 2128 days ago
>Only the good-looking people and the happy videos go to the top.

I don't know what problem the US has with it then, they've already assimilated, Hollywood would be jealous

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smallchungus 2128 days ago
Congrats you just described society.
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lenkite 2128 days ago
This has little to do with "society". Its policy.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-...

https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/tiktok-app-moderators-us...

https://www.businessinsider.com/internal-guidelines-show-tik...

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smallchungus 2128 days ago
And the policy was written by........?
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garmaine 2128 days ago
Or it could be that we just don’t like apps that exist to Hoover up personal information and/or be state sponsored spying endpoints, no matter who makes them.
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MrBuddyCasino 2128 days ago
Correct answer, downvoted of course since this is HN. I personally don’t care about privacy too much, but the way TikTok operates and its ties with the Chinese government is more than a little concerning. The videos are fun, too bad about the content.
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impassionedrule 2128 days ago
As someone that uses Keepass on Android, I find it extremely disturbing that it was reading my clipboard without permission.

Thankfully I only had TikTok for a day (ironically copied my TikTok password to the clipboard).

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trasz 2128 days ago
It would be correct if it didn’t ignore the fact that US-based companies do the exact same thing.
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garmaine 2128 days ago
And I'm angry about that too.
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