And everything else…
I for one am shocked that TikTok is gathering usage statistics. Just SHOCKED!
The DoJ is desperate to try and pretend TikTok is doing something evil rather than what every website on the planet does. As if lemmy mods aren’t collecting data on here right now.
I am a mod of a community that I lost interest in after I created it, still exists though, so I am a mod.
I have an entire notebook full of notes like this:
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world believes that the DoJ is desperate to try and find that TikTok is doing something evil, when they are doing the exact same thing as other website does. They are also catching on to the secret cabal of lemmy mods, I must inform 17.
Tell me you don’t understand running a service without saying a word.
Tell me you don’t know the difference between an admin and a moderator without telling me you don’t know the difference between an admin and a moderator
Always hilarious to see .world rubes defending Chinese spyware. Never change.
“Only we can do that”.
If only the US was applying the same level of scrutiny to Facebook, Instagram, X, etc.
no offence but i’m gonna have to see a lot more evidence before i believe something from us state media.
On the other hand, it would be quite surprising if tiktok wasn’t collecting everything it could about its users.
Like literally every American company does. I’m not a tankie and I’m definitely not a fan of China, but this is one of those situations where the US government doesn’t actually care about the issue, just that they’re not the one doing it
True. I think the US government’s concern is the relationship bytedance has with the Chinese government. But considering how easily US companies will roll over and provide/sell user data I’m not sure how much different it really is over here.
The government’s billionaire owners got worried TikTok would propagandize Americans in a wrong direction.
This is literally not new information. Social media tries to harvest as much data as it can. Data analysts frequently quit and instantly start using ad blockers and other protective measures for a reason.
Just like GAMAM in most of countries -_-… Ban them all
Why is collecting that specifically bad?
