Nepal decides to ban TikTok::A Cabinet meeting on Monday took the decision to ban the social media app.
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I’m not surprised, it’s Chinese spyware
“A lie told often enough becomes true.”
Where’s the lie?
Where’s the evidence?
Edit: As usual, crickets.
What do you want? An article https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/03/tiktok-privacy-policy-update-china/?guccounter=1
Or an actual research https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=nl&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=tiktok+china+data+privacy+&btnG=#d=gs_qabs&t=1700051360372&u=%23p%3DKnf1JZMABB8J
Whatever you want, cricket.
Now before you go “fake, not relevant, false information!!!” Provide some opposing proof yourself, cricket.
Cricket
Lol, you might want to calm down before you think you’ve made a slam dunk.
All you’ve done is google ‘tiktok china data privacy’ then linked a bunch of articles. You’re literally proving my point about a lie being told often enough becomes true.
Do you want to tell me what’s in these articles that is actually worth being concerned about? Or do I have to read through all the bullshit you didn’t just to find out it’s FUD like:
“An incoming privacy policy change announced by TikTok yesterday for users in Europe — which, for the first time, names China as one of several third countries where user data can be remotely accessed by “certain” company employees to perform what it claims are “important” functions”
Lol. Get real. I’m here if you want to talk, but you have to use your words.
How about this. Tell me, specifically, what tiktok did that users did not give them permission to do and then link to evidence supporting that claim.
I don’t expect you to do that though, because then you would have to stick your neck out on something specific and have nothing substantial to back it up.
What a typical response. You asked for proof and I give you proof that the privacy laws are not followed on TikTok. Yet you just bounce it back without giving some proof back like I asked.
I’m definitely not putting more energy into your “show me proof”. It’s not worth it, because you’re just going to say that it’s not proof and I need to do better. Fuck that
You didn’t actually give me any proof, lol. If you did, “then tell me, specifically, what did tiktok do that users did not give them permission to do and then link to evidence supporting that claim.”
You read through all the stuff you linked me, right? So this should be a very easy request.
Unless you’re just trolling, lol. I know what I’d put my money on.
When the media explains mumbo-jumbo about technology.
it’s Chinese spyware
:-/
Please ban YT shorts too.
I have seen it’s true face. Social media is an extended gutter and the gutter is full of ads and when the drains finally scab over all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their pop-ups and clickbait will foam up about their waists and and all the reply guys and soy boys will look up and shout “save us!”… and I’ll look down and whisper… “No.”
Is that Watchmen?
I recognize that last line, but can’t remember where it’s from.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gi1eT7HvtM
Yes, from the opening scene after comedian dies .
Why? I love Shorts! Takes me back to the days of early YouTube, when not everything had to be a 30+ minute video and you could still discover small unknown channels just from browsing. Shorts is the best thing to happen to YouTube since they added HD support back in 2010.
Please explain yourself.
I don’t really like Tiktok. But, forcing the choice on people probably isn’t the best idea either.
It’s CCP spyware. It should be banned everywhere.
There’s plenty of U.S. equivalents. What’s your point?
He’s brainwashed into thinking giving Americans his data is better than giving the Chinese.
Must not know about PRISM, lol.
Nepalese residents will be infected with the insidious Chinese Mind Virus if they watch too many Chinese girls putting on make-up or C-Pop Boy Bands do the sissy-hypno dance. Then their society will collapse and China will be free to roll in the tanks. This is just like how China conquered the countries of Hong Kong, Tibet, and Tienanmen Square.
What about American Spy Ware?
Lol you’re getting downvoted but I wonder why CCP spyware is so bad, compared to USA spyware. Disappointing on Lemmy you are getting downvoted. For the people downvoting you, it’s bad when China does something, but when the US does the same thing, it’s totally okay!
Americans have been brainwashed into thinking it’s better to get fucked by American companies than companies abroad.
I always know a useful idiot when I see one based on how well they parrot talking points without understanding them.
They really have. It’s amazing when they start talking about the terrible things other countries do, but when I point out that the US does the same thing - oh no that’s different!
You know, in many ways, I think it’s something that brings us together.
If people could recognize that instead of dividing, we’d have a lot more power to take back what was stolen by governments.
What about ism?
It’s not really a whataboutism. We’re trying to understand what the diffence is between the two. US companies have spyware, CCP does too. Why is okay for one, and not the other?
US Good
China Evil
"I prefer to get fucked by Americans!’
Team America World Police wasn’t a parody.
Yes.
What do you mean? If the concern is spyware, then that concern exists whether your using American software or Chinese software.
If you don’t think the concern is spyware and it’s solely China, then don’t mention spyware. Say you don’t like it because it’s Chinese and leave it at that. You’d come across as more genuine.
The problem is both. I support none of them nor their evil efforts.
The difference is that Tiktok is controlled / influenced by the CCP and the other social media networks are controlled by corporate boards of directors. Tiktok is under the influence of evil communists, literally.
Oh no is the CCP going to arrest me?
Its about time to ban TikTok. Look what kind of youth have become. Kids doing crazy things for the “fame” of the internet - beating other kids to death, stealing cars, doing drugs, and all minds of illegal stuff just for fun and have lots of “likes”. My brother spends hours a day on TikTok he cant keep focused for a long time anymore. I dont trust him anymore because he forgets things all the time now. He is loosing lots of money and now in a huge debts because he was buying things too expensive for him just to upload pics and videos to be “recognised” n stuff… You can say that its my brothers fault, but TikTok and social media is dragging him more than anything. And it happens for a lot of people
I’ve had it, a long with X and everything meta/Facebook banned on my home network for a while now. It’s been great.
Yay! As a father, that app makes me nervous
Edit: wow just coming back to this, I think I may have just started a war
Posted unironically on social media that does far less patrolling and safety restrictions for children
Yeah but to be fair it’s not like children, or even adults really, are flocking to this app.
Get your kids a dumbphone.
They’ll thank you later.
Why? It’s no different than any western social media. In fact, in my experience, western media tries to push their agendas on me, while my Tiktok is just full of random tech videos and cats.
Agreed, we should ban them all
Good.
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Lol. I remember when Trump said he was going to ban it and everyone was like nooooo. This is so concerning for free speech. Now that it’s not Trump doing it, everyone says: Great, everyone should ban it.
The motivations to van the app matter. Trump wanted to ban it to censure the “wokes”. Nepal bans it to prevent the spread of hate speach.
Social media and mostly the mainstream ones became an issue for democracy. These private companies must moderate before publishing. We must take them to account for what is on their platforms. Social medias are responsible for what is on them at the same level as the people posting it. If they don’t want to comply, it’s a ban.
All four of them
Fearmongering worked. Let’s get more nations to follow suit so we can have an American company dominate short-form video formats instead of a Chinese one.
Nah, let’s go with something Latin American this time. There are probably some countries which are waiting their turn. And which are not competing for world domination.
I’m game. Might make it safer to travel.
I’m down. Idk what’s going on in that “memelos” community, but it looks fire. I wanna see what kind of content a LATAM run social media produces.
It incentivises stupidity, and controversial opinions, which gets more views and makes the “influencer” money.
Will they ban Facebook which facilitated a genocide?
edit: there are many a genocide lover on lemmy sadly.
Lol, people who don’t entertain your loaded questions are genocide lovers?
Man, the fantasy worlds some of you live in.
They’re actually referencing an Amnesty Internation Report published in 2022 regarding Myanmar’s cleansing against the Rohingya, and Facebook/WhatsApp’s role in it.
I would have thought this was common knowledge. I suspect these redditors just don’t put any effort into recall or thinking in general.
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I would have thought this was common knowledge.
Probably because you’re chronically online and care about things that don’t affect you.
Normal people don’t do that.
No you dimwit. I read the papers. Normal people do do that. Dimwit.
Lol, calm down. Most people don’t care about facebook like you do.
Assuming otherwise is asinine.
Yeah, I guess you aren’t allowed to draw the same comparisons with the US, when people here bitch about China. Honestly, it’s very surprising.
Nepal sucks with this shit anyway.
Banning tiktok is just a dumb overreach.
