AwesomeLowlander

deleted by creator

Well duh, you have to drop it. It’s in the name!

Reported by a worker at McD. Wtf, they’re the group that would benefit the most from a change in the healthcare system. Idiot.

Wrong country :)

Asian cultures are not very forgiving of parents kicking out their 10 yr old kids

Yes, but at the same time they’re not going to kick you out. You’ll be in trouble for quite a while, but you’ll survive and pick it up. They’ll probably get a priest to exorcise you a few times.

If you were full adult, sure. But at 10 years of age? You’ve got time.

By moderating, if you mean using the same algorithm for the content feed, it would make a significant difference to a lot of people I believe.

There’s individual sources for practically every paragraph in that article, so I’m not seeing the issue in this case.

https://nypost.com/2023/02/25/china-is-hurting-us-kids-with-tiktok-but-protecting-its-own/

It’s extremely well documented that TikTok offers extremely different experiences within China than it does elsewhere.

And yes they went on an entire project to silo it

So? It doesn’t matter what internal bureaucratic sleight of hand they pull. The bosses are in the CCP, and when they say ‘jump’, the answer is going to be ‘how high?’. That’s how private companies work.

At the end of the day they want the money

TikTok wants money. The CCP wants other stuff. As long as the CCP isn’t making demands, TikTok will make their money. The moment the CCP says to do something, TikTok will do it.

So you’re arguing that TikTok US, despite being fully owned and controlled by China, has full independence and decision making capability? Even regular western companies don’t have that. What the home office says, goes. At most, their American operations are making sure they’re abiding by US law with regards to data and such (and even then I’d highly doubt that, given all the forensic breakdowns about TikTok sending encrypted data to China).

I read a really interesting article in the past by one of the designers of the ad, talking about how it got made from start to end, and almost didn’t come to be. Unfortunately google is so shit now I can’t seem to find any trace of it.

You only have your own countrymen to blame, since that video came from you guys.

Cue Hallmark theme

Can I call him a Twinkie

The asian term for it is ‘banana’. Yellow on the outside, white on the inside. (Before the pitchforks come out, I’m one myself).

There’s no evidence that China can control what’s shown on a China-owned app?

In case you’re still unaware, the China govt is the ultimate authority within China, even in private companies. More so after recent crackdowns on their oligarchs and billionaires. The idea that they have no control over tiktok is plain laughable.

When your scheduled working hours is during the nighttime, 12am - 5 am or so

Gabe Newell and George Lucas come to mind as relatively innocuous.

What’s he doing? I’m not seeing anything about him in news.