You know, watching cartoons when I was young, I always thought it’s unrealistic the bad guys keep trying the same insane plan to “take over the world” or whatever when the hero had foiled like 1,000 of those already… I always thought “no way villains are this stupid”
Fuck me, what did I know? Turns out they actually are.
“I only have to win once.” - Lex Luthor
Actually I always thought it was insane that they DIDN’T try the same insane plan more than once.
Like, half the time Cobra’s crazy plan ALMOST worked. But either luck or some fixable hole in the plan stopped it. But if they just tried it again but just learn from the failure, address the problems they hit, and try again. Maybe even a third time.
But no, they’d always just try some other totally insane plan instead. Every time.
In this case they’re trying stuff that has, in some cases, worked.
I don’t think they’re shooting for Germany 1938. They’re shooting closer to Putin’s Russia. One of many “successful” totalitarian takeovers.
It was never about who owned it or privacy concerns. It was always about censorship and controlling what young Americans could see
So… USA-ownership looks even worse than a Chinese one? :)
Eh, it’s actually a wash. China did the exact same shit with different key words. They were just smarter about it.
And most of the censorship was in China.
Because China is a totalitarian dictatorship, and is no ones friend.
Just because the US is shit, doesn’t make China any better. The world isn’t black and white, it’s mostly black and dark grey.
So China-ownership was better because it censored China-related stuff in China and didn’t care much about other themes in other countries. It is exactly what your colorful analogy means. The world isn’t black and white indeed:)
Sure, if you gloss over the “most” part and replace it with “all”.
Except for the subtle Chinese propaganda constantly fed to the rest of the world. Now the propaganda is blatant enough for people to abandon the app, so the world is technically better for the US seizure. The app went to shit, but it was already pretty bad, so no net loss there.
Now the propaganda is blatant enough for people to abandon the app, so the world is technically better for the US seizure
Right because homegrown propaganda tastes so much better than foreign.
Invade, Invade, Invade, Yum, Yum, Yum!
You know US only controls the tiktok infra in the US market, right?
Are you one of those “us is the center of the universe” guys?
Maybe to left leaning Americans. To a European like me they look essentially identically bad and promote authoritarianism. I wouldn‘t use either version.
The Associated Press shouldn’t take their ‘glitch’ claims at face value.
It’s not a
glitchbug, it’s a feature.
Apparently some people are going over to UpScrolled. It is an Palestinian-made app similar to TikTok/ Instagram.
I have tried UpScrolled but it is still barebones but seems interesting (imo).
From what I’ve heard it’s got a worse Nazi problem than Twitter
I have joined
yesterdaytwo days ago and so far, no Nazi problem on my feed. However, it is mostly regarding politics.I keep my feed focused on anime as far as that’s possible.
That name just sounds like a phishing domain…
Never really tried tiktok, notgoing to try this app either. I hope someone makes a frontend for it like redlib or nitter, so I selfhost and redirect links.
EDIT: Read wrong. You don’t have to try the app if you don’t want to. Up to you.
Don’t know about Redlib nor about Nitter.
Is that the one that uses peer to peer tech to share videos?
