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This TikTok shit is the biggest fucking distraction, and so many idiots eat it right up.

National Security? For who? The green haired lib and the redneck bitching about the culture war? It's Furbies all over again! (Yeah you heard me right)

Ban it from government devices and networks, who gives a shit? Most workers can't get to social media while on the clock anyway...

I know people personally who have never launched the app but tell me it's Chinese brainwashing. Someone related to me blames their marriage falling apart on TikTok.

It'd be funny if it wasn't so obviously entangled in the "anti-woke" horse shit people have been suckered into in recent years. Backed by silicone valley because it's eating their fucking lunch. Supported by shareholders to disrupt lines of communication regarding citizen journalism, union building, and other working class solidarity.

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> Supported by shareholders to disrupt lines of communication regarding citizen journalism, union building, and other working class solidarity.

TikTok is not about promoting citizen journalism, union building or working class solidarity. It's about being positioned to undermine all of that when the need arises. Anybody that dares say the app about twerking has national security implications sounds like a lunatic.

It's problematic because it's part of a broader campaign to backdoor (pun intended) every goddamn device in this country. They've already flooded the consumer market with mandatory internet-connected IoT crap; they ship the hardware and the firmware. We don't sell Huawei in the west, so the next best thing is getting users to download foreign state-controllable software onto domestic mobile devices. Enter TikTok.

Because it's a media app, users necessarily give the app access to cameras and microphones. Everybody with the app installed is one auto-update away from quietly having their device turned into a foreign surveillance unit.

And that's assuming they don't flip the switch to selectively push propaganda to A/B groups. Everybody's experience is different-- by design! You're enjoying ass-clapping videos while your kids are being encouraged to idealize mental illness and Communism (everything is free and nobody has to work!), and your neighbors are being introduced to the QAnon pipeline.

It's chaos engineering. War is coming.

marriage falling apart, woke stuff (like everyone should be trans). CCP couldn't be happier that birth rates in the US are falling, in part due to tt.

Yeah, TikTok is to blame for falling birth rates in America, not the fact that our wages can't keep up with inflation, I'll never own a home, I'll never retire, the job market is plummeting, and WW3 looms right around the corner.

In part? What part?

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