I am so confused by this whole "debate" discussion. Are we talking about China being bad, Tiktok being bad, the ban being bad, who owns tiktok being bad, or just generally how everyone thinks all the things at once and the other news out there is too boring to bother with? Walter thinks bans are bad, Geoff thinks China is bad, and they b…
I am so confused by this whole "debate" discussion. Are we talking about China being bad, Tiktok being bad, the ban being bad, who owns tiktok being bad, or just generally how everyone thinks all the things at once and the other news out there is too boring to bother with? Walter thinks bans are bad, Geoff thinks China is bad, and they both seem to state that this is all so obvious as to be self evident. I went on Tiktok for a few days some time ago and I think as a technology, as rudimentary as it is (maybe because of that) it's clearly filled with trash and gibberish, with good content mixed in to make it go down easier. Like the mind melting funhouse mirror that is / was twitter. But instead of deforming only the media and elites, this is a sickness tailored for the unwashed masses. That being said, there is nothing to be done. It is out there and people are into it. It's USERS are singing its praises, regardless of lobbyists and politics, and at the end of the day if people using something want it, it will be so. Even the administration wishing to ban it said they will remain active on it until after the election (unless that is fake news?), so clearly there is a utility here to all involved, good or bad, and that tells me it will continue. All the ban is going to do (imo) is just add yet another dumb precedent that can be expanded and be even further stupefied to some horror show in the future. I guess we should all go out and invest in VPN companies in the short term? I wonder how many of those have their servers housed in china? Idk, to me it all sounds like people trying to defuse a bomb with mittens and blindfolds on. I guess good luck with that. Tiktok, and most social media ain't for me, but I ain't in the demo moving the world at the end of the day so that is prolly as it should be.
I am so confused by this whole "debate" discussion. Are we talking about China being bad, Tiktok being bad, the ban being bad, who owns tiktok being bad, or just generally how everyone thinks all the things at once and the other news out there is too boring to bother with? Walter thinks bans are bad, Geoff thinks China is bad, and they both seem to state that this is all so obvious as to be self evident. I went on Tiktok for a few days some time ago and I think as a technology, as rudimentary as it is (maybe because of that) it's clearly filled with trash and gibberish, with good content mixed in to make it go down easier. Like the mind melting funhouse mirror that is / was twitter. But instead of deforming only the media and elites, this is a sickness tailored for the unwashed masses. That being said, there is nothing to be done. It is out there and people are into it. It's USERS are singing its praises, regardless of lobbyists and politics, and at the end of the day if people using something want it, it will be so. Even the administration wishing to ban it said they will remain active on it until after the election (unless that is fake news?), so clearly there is a utility here to all involved, good or bad, and that tells me it will continue. All the ban is going to do (imo) is just add yet another dumb precedent that can be expanded and be even further stupefied to some horror show in the future. I guess we should all go out and invest in VPN companies in the short term? I wonder how many of those have their servers housed in china? Idk, to me it all sounds like people trying to defuse a bomb with mittens and blindfolds on. I guess good luck with that. Tiktok, and most social media ain't for me, but I ain't in the demo moving the world at the end of the day so that is prolly as it should be.