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IsThisAnAI ,

Fascism. All of you clap while you set precedent for banning speech and am ACTUAL attack on the 1st.

jeffw OP ,
@jeffw@lemmy.world avatar

I used to be neutral on the ban until I read about their politically-motivated content moderation and how they push certain narrative into people’s feeds.

IsThisAnAI ,

Like every other media outlet, or publisher? I could not care less about what they are pushing, it will be abused.

technocrit , (edited )

I read about their politically-motivated content moderation

Links? What kind of “politically-motivated content”?

I’m pretty sure they’re banning TikTok because reality/truth tends to disillusion the youth and liberate the oppressed.

jeffw OP ,
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www.nytimes.com/…/tiktok-ban-bill-congress.html

Yeah your links don’t address the actual data disparities though. I love Vox but that article is super naive.

Edit: and the other link doesn’t really say much else

IamAnonymous ,

Are we still talking about TikTok or is it Facebook/Twitter/every US social media site?

jeffw OP ,
@jeffw@lemmy.world avatar

None of them have been as aggressive as TikTok. Most US social media companies have failed to curtail right wing bigots but that a separate conversation from TikTok tbh

FiniteBanjo ,

Well yeah, their statements thus far have been:

  • “We would rather go dark than sell”
  • “We are not China Centralized.”

So if that cat gets out of the bag that both those statements are false they will lose all leverage during attempts to sell.

autotldr Bot ,

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Sources “with direct knowledge” of the project—granted anonymity because they’re not authorized to discuss it publicly—told Reuters that the TikTok effort began late last year.

They said that the project will likely take a year to complete, requiring hundreds of engineers to separate millions of lines of code.

“The Reuters story published today is misleading and factually inaccurate,” the TikTok Policy account posted on X (formerly Twitter).

"As we said in our court filing, the ‘qualified divestiture’ demanded by the Act to allow TikTok to continue operating in the United States is simply not possible: not commercially, not technologically, not legally.

However, in the meantime, sources told Reuters that TikTok is seemingly exploring all its options to avoid running afoul of the US law, including separating its code base and even once considering open-sourcing parts of its algorithm to increase transparency.

“Compliance and legal issues involved with determining what parts of the code can be carried over to TikTok are complicating the work,” one source told Reuters.

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