The US is going to get their own TikTok app, controlled by a new entity formed by Oracle, Silver Lake and a16z, with one US government designated board member. 😬
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What a surprise, a CIA company owning one of our most popular social networks lmao
The Democrats and Republicans sure love themselves some of that fascism merger of government with private businesses.
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and people will love it
I can't ever shake that people genuinely use tik tok as if it makes them some kind of "outsider" part of the "rebellion" against "controlled" information.
Maybe they’ll give us Americans a nice government enforced bloomscrolling feed app that encourages young people to be polite, fit, healthy, educated and patriotic.
I'd bet on a propaganda feed before a bloomscrolling feed.
A boy can hope though lol —anything would be better than the tiktok brainrot getting served today though. the government should just force tiktok to pull all its content from khan academy and serve that to its users.
Won't use it, then again I don't use TikTok either
What could go wrong 😑
this is terrible ... though I'm not sure it's much of a downgrade either, wish more people would just avoid tik tok
I'm curious if the US version will keep the same algo. If so, I don't see much charging besides different governments harvesting the data.
Thanks for the heads up! Government being government. Hopefully, one day we will not let the government do this to us.
Add TikTok, open AI, oracle, palantir, and a pinch of government.
Quite the recipe!
TikTok, now shipping communism to the west!
Seize the means of communication. ✊