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by skeaker 954 days ago
Not sure about "corrupting America's youth," but TikTok has been proven to selectively show content to different regions to promote only certain kinds of thought: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30917474

This was enough for me to resolve to never use it. And you're right that other social media isn't much better, though I don't think that was being called into question in the first place.
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dragonwriter 954 days ago
> Not sure about "corrupting America's youth," but TikTok has been proven to selectively show content to different regions to promote only certain kinds of thought

The example cited there seems a lot like it is to conform to local censorship policies, not to manipulate thought around some centralized objective of TikTok or the CCP.

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skeaker 954 days ago
As if that's any better? Not to mention, being capable of one means they are capable of the other.
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dragonwriter 954 days ago
> As if that's any better?

Its a different thing, whether its better or not is a completely unrelated argument.

> Not to mention, being capable of one means they are capable of the other.

Neither one is a particularly deep capability, anyone with an information service with a personalized feed is capable of both, and if they don't conform to local censorship policies they simply will be banned where that occurs.

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