Yeah I mean they're right, it is digital fentanyl and it should be severely regulated, but only as much as every Skinner box that Silicon Valley churns out.
Letting tech companies do whatever is in their power to weaponize billions of dollars in psychology research to lodge hooks in our brains is very, very bad. The focus specifically on TikTok is ridiculous "Chyna bad" nonsense, but yeah TikTok is fucked let's be honest
I mean, they are saying "fentanyl" in a very pointed way because these are the same people peddling conspiracies about how fent addiction is Chyna waging an Opium War on the anglos.
But yes, all these platforms are sick skinner boxes that should have their "habit forming" tools regulated out of existence.
TikTok isn’t even Chinese really so look at this for what it is, Anti-China posturing to build sentiment for future conflict.
TikTok is is only 20% owned by the founder who is a private individual and not the Chinese government, and overwhelmingly 60% of the company is owned by western finance groups, ie: Carlyle Group, General Atlantic, and Susquehanna International Group, etc
3 of the 5 board of Directors for BiteDance are American.
Its a product that competes with traditional American social media giants, so its (A) definitely from China and (B) definitely a powerful opioid and (C) directly responsible for... fuck, idk, Hamas? I think TikTok created Hamas.
3 of the 5 board of Directors for BiteDance are American.
Americans WITH CHINESE SURNAMES!!! We all know what that means.
Oracle Corporation, a CIA cutout, handles hosting Tiktok and moderation of what content north American users see... which means the Communist Party of China has literally taken control of the CIA!
It's not China's fault America gutted its public education system to create generations of credulous rubes who believe whatever they see on social media.
Tech companies responsible for almost all of the most commonly used programs, including the operating systems of nearly every personal computer on the planet, originating in the US and regularly cooperating with the US government: Capitalist market freedom at work!
Chinese company puts out entertainment app which is slightly more toxic and attention-grabbing than the ones that came out before it: This is a never-before seen threat to American security.
Literally the videos all these people hold up as examples of antisemitic Hamas propaganda are just randos making historically accurate overviews or talking about how bombing Palestinian children is wrong.
I think they're trying to say it's "addicting" and "bad for you" and "China bad" while simultaneously pushing their new fentanyl boogieman. Absolute nonsense if you think about it for more than a second, but the people they're lying to won't do that.
Is that picture supposed to be ominous or scary or something. I absolutely want content from everyone in that picture. If only TikTok actually worked like that.
There's a fun irony where when it comes to bigotry and racism it just "needs to be exposed to sunlight" and the "the free marketplace of ideas" but leftist ideas are brainwashing that need censoring.
They certainly do. TikTok is practically under the control of the US and China just makes money from its operations. All the servers are in the US and overseen by American tech companies, the executives are NATO and CIA intelligence operatives, and China requested some propaganda accounts without any visible “state owned” markings and got denied lol
PSA: every social media app is an attention-draining data dragnet but as far as attention-draining data dragnets go, TikTok is the best one, the farthest left one, the youngest one. It's night and fuckin day from YouTube. Seriously go ahead and post a video saying "trans GOOD" on both platforms and watch the dramatically different responses.