Ah yes, a fine example of small government free market.
Uninstall TikTok. It’s spyware anyways.
Always has been.
So is Facebook and Instagram
Uninstall them too
Abd while you’re at it, reddit, twitter, any any other SM service I missed.
Any tips on how do I get my parents banned from WeChat? Too much cringe media and blasting wechat short videos on loudspeaker.
Should I just change their profile pic to the ROC flag for the lulz? We live in the US btw.
Not entirely sure, I’ve never had to decouple someone from social media. My relatives are hopelessly addicted to Facebook.
A suggestion would be to try to gently persuade them of the harms of WeChat, but not to be too pushy about it, could cause them to push back or use it on secret. If they care about their privacy, perhaps taking that route would be beneficial. Having some articles on hand that affirm your argument can help too.
How do I even pushback? Its like the iMessages/Whatsapp of the Chinese Diaspora.
Feels like a lost cause… 🤷♂️
They even gave microphone permissions for voice messages (because typing is hard apparantly, maybe because its not 26 letters… idk).
What is better than government spying on you? TWO governments spying on you (China (via Wechat) and USA (via Google)).
How do you “control” an algorithm?
Doesn’t China still have a copy of the code?
… aaaand banning TikTok in our network.
So the difference between the current ownership, who may be handing data over to the Chinese government and are using an algorithm that promotes undesirable content for “engagement” and propaganda purposes, and the new ownership, who I’m sure will happily sell data to anyone who pays up including thinly disguised fronts for the Chinese government, and will also use an algorithm that promotes undesirable content for “engagement” and propaganda purposes is . . . what, really, at the end of the day?
American dudes getting rich instead of Chinese dudes, though they’ll make the Chinese dudes rich in the process.
RIP free speech
Just another propaganda machine
“In about two weeks”
