[caeril]

Awful lot of people on "Hacker" News incredibly worried about the livelihoods of people who look pretty and dance for 15 seconds for a living.

Any time one hears someone mention the phrase "content creator", one should, by default, execute s/content creator/manipulative parasite/ in their mind. The entire business is social engineering of our brains, en masse, and you should care as much of the livelihoods of these people as you would about an Enron executive, or Madoff or SBF associate.

That said, it doesn't matter who controls the platform. If it gets banned or purchased, the show still goes on, and the world is still worse off for it.

[volf_]

You clearly don't use TikTok. There is quite a lot more than just dancing for 15 seconds.

> Any time one hears someone mention the phrase "content creator", one should, by default, execute s/content creator/manipulative parasite/ in their mind.

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[drivingmenuts]

I suspect that most people on hacker news, when they say content creator, that’s a stand in for “customer”. Banning TikTok hurts their customers which in turn hurts them by interrupting their flow of income.