Tea@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoTrump plans to announce a company called TikTok America, with a 50% stake for US investors and 19.9% for ByteDance, which would license the algorithm.www.capitalbrief.comexternal-linkmessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1145arrow-down111
arrow-up1134arrow-down1external-linkTrump plans to announce a company called TikTok America, with a 50% stake for US investors and 19.9% for ByteDance, which would license the algorithm.www.capitalbrief.comTea@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square28fedilink
minus-squareEbby@lemmy.ssba.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down2·edit-21 day agoIf not user data and network security concerns, what? Why the ban/sale song and dance?
minus-squareFluffy Kitty Cat@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·1 day agoPeople were opposing the Gaza genocide which is a joint American isreali project
minus-squarebizarroland@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoAlso money, which are just political points in tangible/fungible format
minus-squareDark Arc@social.packetloss.gglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·21 hours agoIt’s about content delivery, i.e. the CCP having direct control over what content (i.e. propaganda) is sent to Americans on the platform via their proprietary algorithm (with all the source code heavily guarded in mainland China).
minus-squarepinball_wizard@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·20 hours agoControlling people’s media experience to push political propaganda that helps powerful people and harms individuals - that seems really shitty. I can’t think of any app developer or political party who would do that. (This is an attempt at surrealist humor.)
minus-squareOpenStars@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·24 hours agoControl over what messages can be removed?
If not user data and network security concerns, what? Why the ban/sale song and dance?
People were opposing the Gaza genocide which is a joint American isreali project
Political points.
Also money, which are just political points in tangible/fungible format
It’s about content delivery, i.e. the CCP having direct control over what content (i.e. propaganda) is sent to Americans on the platform via their proprietary algorithm (with all the source code heavily guarded in mainland China).
Controlling people’s media experience to push political propaganda that helps powerful people and harms individuals - that seems really shitty.
I can’t think of any app developer or political party who would do that.
(This is an attempt at surrealist humor.)
Control over what messages can be removed?