TikTok showed it couldn’t be trusted when it performatively kissed Trump’s ass.
this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2026
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Maybe the lawyer isn't lying but it doesn't matter why the data was collected. Once it is collected it can be used for anything.
the most apt punishment for these fascist supporting billionaires is to tank their investments to the ground by not using them
Won’t matter we have to tank the entire market at this point.
Do you own a Tok Tok account?
Fuck you.
Sorry for the bluntness... But that's how we feel. Fuck you, you fucking shithole.
Freak out, they say, well that's a interesting way of describing it. It sounds like a pretty good thing to freak out about. Maybe it's not freaking out at all, maybe it's reacting with a modicum of common sense at something that's incredibly scary.
Here's a hint:
STOP USING THE APP
Or just stop using the platform altogether. The reason that most of these things are "apps" is so that they can track you better, not for the "experience".
JFC.
It feels like yelling at clouds, especially when we say this on Lemmy
Around two or three years ago, I was on a sales call/app demo as a potential customer–not for TikTok, of course. It's an American company and I'm based in Canada. I asked the sales guy about their data storage, encryption, privacy, and the like; he didn't know. I said I needed to know that if our group uses the application to communicate internally about, for example, helping refugees, the government won't be able to access it. The guy asked me if that really was a concern.
Well, you tell me now, sales guy, is it really a concern?
Most of America is like this. Infuriating.
I agree, but the bad thing is, a lot of people (especially kids) are addicted to TikTok and other apps. They crave it. So similar to smoking, they know it's bad but still can't quit.
I don't think your message here on Lemmy will reach the right audience.
Amen. Unfortunately I feel like there's a whole generation that has come up with a different mindset. Not that you want to stand up for your rights, but that you will do whatever you want and complain about it if it violates your rights or your privacy, but not actually stop doing it.
I feel like the idea of proactively standing up for your rights or what you believe in rather than just complaining or posting online is no longer in in common parlance.
There’s also a matter of small businesses and artists that despite what people here might think need platforms like this because regular people are too fucking stupid to go to a website.
Or I guess we could all just fucking starve to death and you could all just go shopping at Walmart.
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For real. TikTok should be regarded as a de facto intelligence service for the DOJ.
Ellison is evil
he definitely looks the part
He’s 81
I called this shit 7 months ago. (Check my very first post.)
Now, at that time, there was discussion of "public-private" cooperation concerning the cybersecurity of that data so it could (paraphrasing) "stay in the hands of American people." Lolol.
No doubt a similar agreement is in place and this shit is vectored directly to the US gov.
(Sorry, I start getting long-winded here.)
Fuck the technocracy. Bunch of cowardly assholes using and clearly planning to use Americans' personal info against them en masse. The algorithms have manipulated us, pitting wage slave against wage slave. And all that extracted data will continue being utilized in siccing the brownshirts they rabbit-holed and radicalized onto conveniently corralled targets. Us.
We have to fight their algorithm manipulation with not only data poisoning and/or removing ourselves from the tech altogether, but good ol' fashioned interpersonal psychological manipulation. And what I mean by that is physically talking to humans outside our bubble. Find some common ground. Believe it or not, it still exists. Use seemingly innocuous quips to plant seeds of doubt. Try to reach the human that may or may not still exist in that withered husk you work with, that maga uncle with a maga son so in the closet it hurts, the ones just acting like it's all okay. Help them see the writing on the wall that they, too, will lose.
By completely disengaging with people we think are beyond redemption, we are possibly allowing so many with a shred of heart left to continue down the rabbit hole in private. People are stupid. And we know this division is by design. Fight it with well-placed words before they do something irredeemable and we have nothing left to fight with but arms.
A vast number of maga figureheads and followers sure seem to be living in a world of shared psychosis. And when you're in a psychosis, it genuinely feels like everyone's out to get you for reasons you can only justify with increasingly difficult mental gymnastics. But it's all manufactured by the very real psychopaths in power, the ones ensuring the cult psychosis keeps perpetuating.
I guess what I'm saying is there's still time to pull some of these followers or in-betweeners out of it by shifting the focus of what they think they have to fear by showing them what they really need to fear. A spin on killing them with kindness.
Idk tho. I'm just mad all of this dystopian hatred shit didn't just stay inside all the books I read growing up.
They think we’re bad people. Even when we’re being good people and being nice and very sweet and etc., etc. etc. they get told by fucking Fox News were bad and that’s all they care about.
It’s not going to be that easy. I talked to them plenty because my husband won’t let me get the fuck away from his family. Oh they seem so fucking nice. They’ll agree with every fucking thing you say. And they’ll sell you right the fuck out for Trump. No doubt.
They would literally tell you how awful everything that is going on today is and then fucking put you on a list tomorrow.
I know I’ve watched until their own fucking daughter how they regret her going to college because she learned woke values. How she’s a bad person and I don’t even know why to be honest. She did everything her parents expected of her To do literally graduated right before Trump became president. The moment he became president she was a bad person.
Explain that—these people doing that to their own daughter and she’s the golden child of the family. They would sell out their own kids they will sell all of us out.
It's a cult, it's literally using cult trapping tactics, that's why people are so delusional. Knowing that, might help in how you approach, should you choose to try.
Look after yourself, too. It's all a lot to take on, and they want everyone stuck in fight or flight, because it literally shuts down your critical thinking. The most empowering thing to do, right now, is beat their game against you, and find ways to bring yourself down out of fight or flight, after seeing the stuff going on, because your fight or flight can't tell the difference between being there and watching a video. Complete the stress cycle after you see this stuff, hum, sing, dance or go for a walk, are some options.
Find ways to decompress. Maybe it's going to get hard, having good strategies to help yourself cope, and learning tools and techniques to undo the damage seeing this does, is going to make this an easier ride. We can beat them. They know that. They are scared of us. We will get through this.
Yeah, remember when Trump "saved" Tiktok? This is what he was doing. You fucking idiots celebrated when you should have been taking it as a sign to leave that app and never return.
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So it's going to send ICE live location data about users it thinks are non-residents? That's scary as all fuck.
We used to be anonymous on the internet. We had screen names, didn’t show our faces or tell people where we lived.
This is what we get when sharing your face becomes the default.
Fuck you Noem and the seven-headed monster you rode on.
her face too frozen form botox to give any expression.
Anyone who uses tiktok is kind of an idiot to be honest, and it's kind of amusing that they're shocked that this would happen. Wtf did you expect?
they want that gen-z population to turn conservative, they are primiarly the TIK TOk consumers.
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