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[–] kennedy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 78 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Oracle will operate in partnership with the US government on everything from algorithm retraining to application development and source code review, the White House official said. It wasn’t immediately clear what role the government might have in oversight of the app, its algorithm and user data.

every article just glosses over the fact a major platform that people use to get/share information (with also a lot of personal data collected) is about to be controlled by the US government and a few of the president's friends. No one is talking about how bad this will be its just "china bad'.

I only had an account to watch people livestreams concerts, protests, etc... Imagine the amount of suppression and propaganda if something like the L.A riots/free palestine movement happen again but the government controls what you see.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

There are no protests in LA, and we have always been at war with Eastasia.

[–] chillpanzee@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago

It's just Dodger's fans [pissed|happy] about the big [win|loss].

[–] Teal@piefed.zip 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I agree and even though users should be concerned I think a large amount of people using that platform already don’t care where their data goes, how it’s used or what harmful algorithms can do to a person.

[–] kennedy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago

yeah which is sad really, the mainstream has unfortunately given up about it. The few of us who do are screaming into a void, it would take something apocalyptic. Thought the cambridge analytical thing and the election would make people see but money talks i guess.

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 43 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Tiktok will be a fascist propaganda mill & needs to go the way of MySpace.

Use Loops instead.

[–] allywilson@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca -1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They went open-source a week ago!

[–] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Loops as it currently stands SUCKS and is not a viable alternative.

[–] SavageCoconut@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What website is being showed in the screenshots?

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 39 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oracle will be handling TikTok's algorithm? Okay, so TikTok's back-end workflow/decisioning engine will rapidly bloat up and will need to be completely replaced every two years. Got it.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Probably why they went for the contract. That's some big money headed Larry's way.

[–] LongboardingLad@lemmy.world 38 points 2 weeks ago

"Secured" by Oracle.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I can't believe oracle is still such a behemoth. I thought they dissappeared in the 2010s, but they've been steaming ahead doing evil things with shit tons of money this whole time.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's the same reason IBM still exists. Massive multinational / government contracts keep them alive and healthy.

[–] chillpanzee@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And Microsoft. Ain't nobody buying SharePoint because it's good.

[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Wasn't Microsoft in a bad state during Balmer and it took Nadella to change focus from Microsoft developed products to cloud and selling Linux that saved it?

[–] black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The point of this is specifically to silence those talking about Palestinian genocide.

[–] NotKyloRen@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 weeks ago

Ding ding ding. Anyone who's been paying attention since the beginning should know this.

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They’re going to push right-wing content.

[–] K1nsey6@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

That's already started after they installed that IDF cunt as hate speech manager. Nearly everyone of my proPalestinian /anti Israel TTs have been muted as 'unauthorized sound.'

[–] gi1242@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

somehow I trust bytwdance a lot more than trump backed companies....

moot point though, cause I'm never on tiktok

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This will be illegal in the future, and dangerous not to have received the latest cultural infections.
The police will have ways to know if you have not performed your memetic inoculation
By flashing certain patterns at you and observing your reaction with an AI facial expression analyzer
They will know you have not upheld your democractic duty to remain an informed citizen
You will be sanctionned for you dereliction of duty
and subjected to a memetic reification inoculation
which is a kick and painless procedure where you are simply made to look at a screen for a certain period of time while restrained

Please drink verification can.

[–] kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 weeks ago

That's crazy, now instead of staying the fuck away from a shitty Chinese social media I'll stay the fuck away from a shitty US social media.

[–] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 2 weeks ago

It's not desirable to have a foreign government in control of TikTok. But it's far, far less desirable to have your own government in control of TikTok.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nice. Another racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic anti-American platform.

[–] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks ago

You can just say “American platform”.

[–] Korkki@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 weeks ago

So does this affect only US Tiktok users or is it the whole global Tiktok outside of China that will be sucked up by US?

[–] kokesh@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Blocked that shit on our household devices (and all our visitors and guest's devices).

[–] purplemonkeymad@programming.dev 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So you'll need to be licensed for each core on you phone that could run tiktok?

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Does the baseband count? (of course it does!)

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

With Twitter going down, TT was my next best option for finding niche artiste and fandoms. My algorithm on there was really good with showing me new artists and fandom creators to follow. Idk where I'm gonna go now.

[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'm already in the EU, so under the UK branch of the subsidiary. Theoretically, I would be immune to the algorithm manipulation from the US. In practice, who knows. The UK hasn't really been pushing back against US Tech interferences.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago

Great! What could go wrong with ubiquous policing with AI group controling a media platform so powerful congress called it a weapons platform...

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

Secured by Oracle? So it's going to be open source? \s

[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago

Wonder how it would be if they implement it in their database systems. Queries would no longer return data you want, but instead return data you might like to see.