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A lot of folks on TikTok have been speculating that Meta/Musk/etc might become owners in some way. Shou, the TikTok CEO - apparently updated his bio to not include "TikTok CEO" post-blackout.

I personally, feel that it's quite a reach for the government to ban social apps such as TikTok. It's pretty much just become endless posts of people trying to make a living off of commission/sales/views. Something will obviously replace it if it does get banned (much like Vine), but "creator culture" is just depressing.

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We should have much stricter use policies on them. Especially for the younger demographics. Between social media, pay to win gaming, phone access, and loot boxes, we're really just setting young people up for failure.

I'd take a page out of the Korean approach to gaming where your SIN is associated with your login and some activities hold time/usage requirements.

If it were up to me, I'd straight up ban social media for youth and not allow parents to upload so much content involving their kids... Basically stealing the privacy of the kids in the process.

We used to care about privacy in society, but it feels dead now.

Maybe I'm too old, but I DO NOT understand the TikTok livestreams of people sleeping, obvious pre-recorded video, etc...and people sending gifts constantly.

The "creator fund" incentivized just posting a lot, sharing, and once Tiktok shop was introduced almost every other video is someone talking about "Tiktok shop made a mistake on pricing buy this item". Shills all of them. I don't think being a "creator" on TikTok should be a "job" for people.

I had long assumed a reverse merge with a company like snap was the right move. It satisfies the requirement but also keeps bytedance somewhat in control since snap is effectively just a horse in trade for them.

This law is not about protecting us from the harms of social media, and it doesn't even literally ban TikTok; so this framing of it being whackamole is missing the point.

What we really need is strong data privacy laws and child development guided policies. But that's not the point of the law either.

I guess it depends what lens you are looking through. Most people on TikTok would happily give their SSN, DOB, and any data over to a company to watch videos, make money on silly shit that happens on TikTok.

Other folks think TikTok is legitimately a news source and the government is keeping things from them.

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