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tardigrada@beehaw.orgOPto Technology@beehaw.org•Albania declares one-year TikTok ban over stabbing1·4 months agoRemoved by mod
tardigrada@beehaw.orgOPto Technology@beehaw.org•Albania declares one-year TikTok ban over stabbing2·4 months agoYour answer has nothing to do with my question.
Isn’t it somewhat strange that Tiktok, whose parent company is forced to closely surveill and censor each politically undesired content in its home country, while it is at the same time not only unable to suppress but reportedly even promotes obviously harmful content on its platforms outside China?
tardigrada@beehaw.orgOPto Technology@beehaw.org•Albania declares one-year TikTok ban over stabbing3·4 months agoIsn’t it somewhat strange that Tiktok, whose parent company is forced to closely surveill and censor each politically undesired content in its home country, while it is at the same time not only unable to suppress but reportedly even promotes obviously harmful content on its platforms outside China?
tardigrada@beehaw.orgOPto Technology@beehaw.org•Albania declares one-year TikTok ban over stabbing3·4 months agoAs AP reports on the same issue:
There has been increasing concern from Albanian parents after reports of children taking knives and other objects to school to use in quarrels or cases of bullying promoted by stories they see on TikTok.
Isn’t it somewhat strange that Tiktok, whose parent company is forced to closely surveill and censor each politically undesired content in its home country, while it is at the same time not only unable to suppress but reportedly even promotes obviously harmful content on its platforms outside China?
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tardigrada@beehaw.orgOPto Technology@beehaw.org•Albania declares one-year TikTok ban over stabbing7·4 months ago… the 14-year-old student was killed and another injured …
tardigrada@beehaw.orgOPto Technology@beehaw.org•Albania declares one-year TikTok ban over stabbing18·4 months agoAs AP reports on the same issue:
There has been increasing concern from Albanian parents after reports of children taking knives and other objects to school to use in quarrels or cases of bullying promoted by stories they see on TikTok.
Isn’t it somewhat strange that Tiktok, whose parent company is forced to closely surveill and censor each politically undesired content in its home country, while it is at the same time not only unable to suppress but reportedly even promotes obviously harmful content on its platforms outside China?
[Edit typo.]
Money corrupts; bitcoin corrupts absolutely. Disregarding all of bitcoin’s shortcomings, a financial instrument that brings out the worst in people—greed—won’t change the world for the better.
I disagree with this statement. Blockchain is only a technology, good or bad is what we humans are doing. It depends how we use BTC and other coins, but that’s a human issue rather than a technological one.
tardigrada@beehaw.orgOPto Technology@beehaw.org•TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal1·4 months agoThere aren’t a lot of Chinese citizenry here. But there are a lot of Americans. It so follows that it makes sense to criticize the U.S. more, because many people on Beehaw can actually do something about it, especially in aggregate.
I agree that there are most likely more Americans (or other ‘Westerners’) here than Chinese, yet there are many tankies here with alt accounts on Beehaw. It is them who spread the Chinese propaganda, criticizing the West in general while being silent on China.
tardigrada@beehaw.orgOPto Technology@beehaw.org•TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal9·4 months agoBecause another countries takes away freedom and eliminates the free market, makes it a non argument if the US does the same? The US is doing the same what China does.
If so, why then haven’t you long been criticizing China the same way you do now the US? Where are these posts?
(Just to say that: The US, China, EU, and all the others can ban Tiktok, Twitter, FB, and all the centralized data collectors. I wouldn’t miss any of them, and I think it would be better for the world. But the hypocrisy here in this thread is very telling.)
tardigrada@beehaw.orgOPto Technology@beehaw.org•TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal12·4 months agoI think Tiktok is much worse. It’s about a foreign country whose government is pursuing a dictatorial policy trying to interfere in foreign elections (again, look at Romania, for example).
The argument of FB collaborating with the US gov is true I guess, but isn’t valid here. China is doing the same, the Chinese government is banning the Western version of Tiktok, too, let alone all other non-Chinese apps. So the ‘free market’-argument doesn’t make any sense here, it’d be even hypocritical.
tardigrada@beehaw.orgOPto Technology@beehaw.org•TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal15·4 months agoIt helps to think before you type.
The free market is free if and when you play by the same -democratic- rules. Look at Romania, just to name an actual example. Tiktok is much worse than Facebook and (most) others, and being worse is not an easy task here.
tardigrada@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•NHS hospitals gear up to get cyberattack systems back online • The Register3·4 months agoWhy isn’t a system in a hospital air-gapped? Or is there any reason why it must be connected that I don’t know?
tardigrada@beehaw.orgOPto Technology@beehaw.org•China: Elon Musk's X must immediately end shadow ban of prominent account run by exiled Chinese human rights activists, group says16·5 months agothe post title makes it sound like china is making that demand, which doesn’t make sense.
Yeah, doesn’t make sense. The Chinese government fully supports free speech and rejects censorship. We all know that. Thanks. (/s, to be safe)
tardigrada@beehaw.orgOPto Technology@beehaw.org•How a little-known far-right candidate manipulated TikTok to rise to the top in the Romanian election1·5 months agoYou could just read articles before commenting instead of posting always the same rant over and again.
tardigrada@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•X's Objection to the Onion Buying InfoWars Is a Reminder You Do Not Own Your Social Media Accounts8·5 months agoI recently posted an article in another thread about Bluesky. It’s from 2023, but worth reading in case you don’t know it:
tardigrada@beehaw.orgOPto Technology@beehaw.org•Researchers: Educating young people about social media would be far more effective than a ban - Finland can show us how1·5 months agoThis should indicate that it’s an article published by researchers rather than journalists. I thought it’s clear anyway that not all researchers in a field agree?
tardigrada@beehaw.orgOPto Technology@beehaw.org•Young people were becoming more anxious long before social media, and we should not be fixated on simplistic explanations that reduce the issue to technical variables, researcher says1·5 months agoSoviet Union, China, Vietnam
You obviously have no idea what it means to live -or have lived, as one of these countries already collapsed- under such regimes. But feel free to migrate there.
There is a blog post from 2023, but worth reading in case you don’t know it:
tardigrada@beehaw.orgOPto Technology@beehaw.org•Young people were becoming more anxious long before social media, and we should not be fixated on simplistic explanations that reduce the issue to technical variables, researcher says5·5 months agoCommunist governments took power in poor countries and had to endure ‘primitive accumulation’ before they could start building a socialist economy. At best they created workers’ states where employment and basic services were guaranteed to all.
Where was that?
@InevitableList
Are you sure you read the thelucky8’s comment?