TikTok Rule

BigFatNips@sh.itjust.works to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone – 1384 points –
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Helping the working class doesn’t net them a fat profit.

How is TikTok helping the working class? It's an app that wastes your time and sells you products. There is no intent to help the working class. Stop glorifying governments. China doesn't want to help liberate the working class or anything like that, if that's what you're implying.

TikTok doesn’t help anyone but that wasn’t the point of what I said. I was saying that the US government doesn’t actually help its citizens because it’s not profitable for them. The reason the government even cares about “banning” TikTok is because it means their tech buddies (specifically people like Zuck) can benefit from it. It’s corporate greed. TikTok doesn’t care about anything other than profit and data hoarding.

Ah, OK. I misunderstood. Yeah, the US isn't helping people the way it should, but that's not really related to TikTok. They aren't going to do that regardless. Yeah, it's all about money and power for all of this.

TikTok != China.

That said TikTok is a corporation that isn't trying to help either.

Absolutely, but I have seen people say China is using it to liberate workers before, as if they care. There are a lot of misinformed people out there.

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how does this give them a fat profit?

Moreso gives google and meta a fat profit, and they bought congress. I personally also think that suppression of info about Palestine is a driver of the bill as well, and that rewards congress through the legal bribery that is lobbying.

They're trying to force a sale or ban it, and I don't think it's certain what the details are, so who knows what criteria the owner needs to have

(it might be so specific only a handful of people/groups qualify, so they can suppress the price and ensure it goes somewhere specific... It's shockingly common, especially when legalizing something or when other nations are concerned)

They're trying to force a sale or ban it, and I don't think it's certain what the details are, so who knows what criteria the owner needs to have

(it might be so specific only a handful of people/groups qualify, so they can suppress the price and ensure it goes somewhere specific... It's shockingly common, especially when legalizing something or when other nations are concerned)

It’s the corporate class protecting one another’s shared interests in the US. Kick TikTok out and suddenly it paves the way for a competitor like Meta.

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