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What MySpace and other social content networks taught us was that most of the value was when young people treated them as outlets for self-expression. That's what made those places new and cool. Once the sites got corporatized, they gradually degraded into irrelevance.
Guess we'll see.
We'll see... We'll see...
* Cue accordion hands *
The shittiest possible outcome is what the Trump admin is all about.
So true
Maybe this shitslurry of a deal will stain the platform with enough GOP stink that even the most brainrotted kids will leave it behind for less foul smelling alternatives
They won't, they're addicted (I say this as a sporadic TT user). Look at how shit FB has gotten, yet people still hang around. Tiktok's algo is 100x more addictive.
The only positive for TT for me personally was that the bot problem wasn't as bad on it compared to other social media. I bet that will change pretty quickly.
The younguns skew right nowadays due to podcasters like Tate and Rogan.
Welcome to the era of media that cannot die.
Did anyone honestly expect anything good to come from the TikTok deal?
Republicans obviously take majority responsibility for this turd of a deal and the corrupt shifting of TikTok ownership to Trump’s buddies. But it can’t be overstated what an own-goal supporting this whole dumb thing was for Democrats, who not only helped Trump’s friends steal partial ownership of TikTok, they saber-rattled over a ban during an election season where they desperately needed young people to vote.
As I’ve spent years arguing, if these folks were all so concerned about U.S. consumer privacy, they should have passed a functional modern internet privacy law applying to all U.S. companies and their executives.
Everyone just looked the other way while Trump and his cronies repeatedly ignored deadlines and hammered away at the transfer.
I'm so tired of this blatant corruption.
So will Americans have their own great firewalled tiktok then? Wondering about how content will be shared between the US and the rest of the Anglosphere
Good, because fuck that platform and its parasitic hold on society.
Oh this is going to do nothing to make TikTok better in any way, or cause it's downfall.
It just lets Trump's friends make money from it now.
Having even more propaganda control is the true problem.
