[charles_kaw]

Just because facebook (a soulless ghoul amalgamation trapped in the vortex of a billionaire p-zombie) took shots at tiktok (also a shit company), doesn't absolve tiktok of real, actual harm.

This is whataboutism, although I always do appreciate light being shown on Fb/meta.

[angio]

There's no need to single out TikTok, the same regulation that will make them spy on people less will also work with Meta, Twitter, Google. TikTok does nothing extra compared to them.

[CharlesW]

> There's no need to single out TikTok…

There absolutely is. TikTok is Max Headroom blipverts come to life, and the effect is hypnotic. They're relentlessly slicing and dicing you as you watch to a far greater degree than anything that's come before it.

[piggybox]

Nothing extra? You haven't read the article clearly

[pessimizer]

> This is whataboutism

This is contemporary liberal anticommunist whataboutism. Whataboutism once described when you point out bad thing X someone else is doing, and they respond by pointing about totally unrelated bad thing Y that you're doing, such as when the USSR responded to the US criticisms of their economic system by pointing out that the US was an apartheid state. It's an ad hominem.

What you're doing is yelling about your neighbor beating his wife when you're also beating your wife, and you're not going to stop beating your wife.

[calvinmorrison]

tuquoque screams Facebook's massive publicity arm while it gobbles up what's left of humanities neurons into the metaverse(tm)