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      Bans LGBT+ people

      My fyp is full of bipoc LGBTQ+ people? Twitter on the other hand tries to feed me right wing news sources and disinformation all the time. There’s a spectrum here and TikTok is far on the other side.

      Also to be frank the algorithm is by far the best out of any company with a “for you” algorithm. It blows pretty much anything else out of the water entirely.

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        Go watch a few truck or bbq tik toks and watch it backslide. Anything that is vaguely a “manly hobby.” You’ll be surprised how quickly Ben Shapiro winds up in front of you.

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          I watch more tiktok than I’m proud of, and YouTube is actually way worse for this. Youtube I’ve actually started using some private browsing for things that I think might turn to Joe Rogan or whatever because on that platform you’re like 7 videos from “i’d like to check out some camping videos” to “here’s how to protect yourself from the woke mob in the apocalypse which will happen next Tuesday courtesy of Ben Shapiro.”

          The thing that worries me about tiktok is they’re too good at this. It would honestly be extremely easy for them to tip the scales.

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      People rightfully call out TikTok as a spyware because of their ties with CCP, but how exactly are other social media giants and big tech any different as they too have ties with the CIA, FBI etc

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        Basically, most social media reads out everything that is openly accessible, like cookies, address books and contacts, etc.
        TikTok goes deeper, it has been watched going into protected files, trying to break encryptions (sometimes being successful).

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          Damn, didn’t know about this, but, what if Big Tech has also been doing this, but with more perfection, without getting caught?

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              how is it speculative that big tech steals your data. Google, Amazon, microsoft, every single big internet conglomerate sell your data. Its a fact, and is widely reported.

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        Don’t we have a different tiktok than the Chinese one? There are specifically US folks in charge of the non China Tiktok. Wasn’t one of the security heads a former US state security agent?

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      Why do you think it’s more spyware than any other big tech mobile app or social media?

      And based on my experience getting hooked so fast into while I didn’t want to touch it, it seems it has the best algorithm. I’m off it now, like all other social media expect for fediverse, but I can testify on this

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      bans LGBT+ people

      Source? because I follow a ton of LGBTQIA+ people without any issue.

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        follow someone long enough and eventually they complain that their videos are being taken down with zero reason, and being banned outright. an example is sanrioangel I think her name is, she’s had so many tiktok accounts banned for no reason other than being trans

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      Idk, I find it’s algorithm very easy to control compared to every other social media, its much easy to manipulate. My fyp is full of gay people so idk what you mean by the second statement.