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I think about the time tiktok was instrumental of making a joke out of president Trump's rally.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/after-trump-ra...

Facebook emotion experiment on users. It was facebook but it can easily be tiktok.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28051930

TikTok admitting to finding and firing employee that spied on reporters

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/22/tiktok-by...

And I can go on and on.

The banning of tik tok as a social network is not unwarranted. It can be used to influence users and gather data. It makes sense to keep it under some control since we can never know how much influence foreign government agencies have over it.

It should be and needs to be a thing.



Hang on, your second example of why TikTok should be banned is because Facebook did some bad things? And your third example is because TikTok fired people who abused their position?

Whereas Facebook actually *did* psychological experiments on users according to your link, and Facebook has inappropriately used user data. When is Facebook going to be banned?


Agree with the fb one but not this one.

> because TikTok fired people who abused their position

Or tiktok decided doing it and when found out they throw some low-rank employees. Same as setting some impossible targets and then firing employes for bribery and other illegal behaviour.


I suspect that the role of the CCP in TikTok's management plays a significant role.

The CCP is less directly involved with Facebook.

(Though I'd be more than happy to see Facebook destroyed entirely.)


That Facebook admitted it doesn’t mean TikTok isn’t doing it without admitting so.


Of course not.

The links just don't back up their position. I don't care about banning TikTok, it's more the unevenness because "China evil". As for admitting it, Facebook has required whistleblowers to expose the terrible things they have done.

TikTok has not done anywhere near as much damage to the US as meth and guns individually, but you just don't see the same effort put into solving either of those two problems.




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