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ELI5 how come Discord can give out military specs and warn the FBI about a shooter without being tried to shutdown like tictok and others?? (lemmy.world)
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I have never used tick tok so excuse my stuppidity

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

EILIF: TikTok is like that "friend" that says they're your buddy, but you have a lot of reasons to doubt they actually have your best interest at heart.

From my notes:

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hate to ask this but can you slim down the links for us? I appreciate the effort.....but thats alot to read thru. And something tells me you probably have so was wondering if you could kind of cliff note it for me?....no sarcasm in any of this.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Basically TikTok has been proven to serve the Chinese Communist Party (via influence over what users see and data collection). Additionally, the Atlantic article goes on to explain how the United States has a long history of protecting its citizens from foreign influence campaigns going back to the early radio days (and trying to ban TikTok is not a divergence from the status quo or an attack of free speech, rather the continuing of policies that have largely worked and served the public good).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

protecting its citizens from foreign influence campaigns

As opposed to domestic influence campaigns, I suppose.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Discord being a US based company lets FBI access to its data much more directly. While TikTok still provides this data, them not being US based ticks off FBI, because there is the chance of chinese government interfering with the legitimacy of data that TikTok would provide. On China, the state has much more control over the companies than US.

The US can't even deal with a billionaire buying up a social media platform and influence elections; but China can collapse any company's success at a whim. Changing a legal data request from another country is certainly something they can do if China demands it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

TikTok is owned by a Chinese government and collects their users data.

Just like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google, etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

China=Bad

TikTok does what every other social media app does (which is 100% legal in the US, thanks to corrupt leaders and law makers), but:China, so: Bad.