gehringer_2 Posted January 15 Posted January 15 On 1/15/2025 at 9:56 PM, CMRivdogs said: Expand it would be funny if it were not tragic. Quote
CMRivdogs Posted January 15 Posted January 15 On 1/15/2025 at 10:02 PM, pfife said: Cmon no way thats true LOL Expand Maybe he should have asked his buddy Clarence Quote
oblong Posted January 16 Posted January 16 I did read playboy for the articles. They had some good ones. The pictorials were silly. 1 Quote
Hongbit Posted January 16 Posted January 16 On 1/16/2025 at 12:11 AM, oblong said: The pictorials were silly. Expand Agree. Penthouse was much more serious. Quote
CMRivdogs Posted January 17 Posted January 17 Trump will overturn it Monday and the Chinese will sell it to Musk by the end of the week Quote
Tigeraholic1 Posted January 17 Posted January 17 On 1/17/2025 at 3:15 PM, CMRivdogs said: Trump will overturn it Monday and the Chinese will sell it to Musk by the end of the week Expand I was listening to NPR and if it were to be banned folks are moving over to another chinese owned Rednote. Once it reaches a million users it would be heading down the same avenue as TikTok and classified as a "Foreign Adversary". It is all smoke and mirrors in the end. https://www.npr.org/2025/01/15/nx-s1-5260742/tiktok-china-rednote-xiaohongshu-app 1 Quote
pfife Posted January 17 Author Posted January 17 I think Biden said he wasn't going to enforce it in his last day so it's up to Trump and Trump got money from them so TickTock lives. Quote
antrat Posted January 17 Posted January 17 Trump must have discovered all the teenage girls on Tik Tok shaking their rumps. Maybe Gaetz tipped him off. Quote
oblong Posted January 17 Posted January 17 I have tiktok and don't use it that often. My doom scrolling is mostly reels. When I opened it the other day I was kind of freaked out that the first thing they showed me was my friend promoting his band's show at the Token Lounge. Quote
Edman85 Posted January 17 Posted January 17 There's legitimate reasons to not want China controlling social media algorithms, end of story. A real IYKYK situation, and the people that know the most are the ones who pushed the hardest for this. 2 2 Quote
pfife Posted January 17 Author Posted January 17 On 1/17/2025 at 4:43 PM, Edman85 said: There's legitimate reasons to not want China controlling social media algorithms, end of story. A real IYKYK situation, and the people that know the most are the ones who pushed the hardest for this. Expand 100%. No doubt. Quote
mtutiger Posted January 17 Posted January 17 On 1/17/2025 at 4:43 PM, Edman85 said: There's legitimate reasons to not want China controlling social media algorithms, end of story. A real IYKYK situation, and the people that know the most are the ones who pushed the hardest for this. Expand I would add the fact that Trump used to agree but, due to millions of dollars from Jeff Yass, had a "change of heart" objectively seems.... kinda fishy. Quote
CMRivdogs Posted January 17 Posted January 17 On 1/17/2025 at 4:43 PM, Edman85 said: There's legitimate reasons to not want China controlling social media algorithms, end of story. A real IYKYK situation, and the people that know the most are the ones who pushed the hardest for this. Expand I get that and agree. So what happens if say China "sells" the app and algorithms to someone like Musk, who wants it and is a de facto member of the incoming administration. Are there any guardrails in the legislation to prevent them from using our "right to free speech" against us? Big Brother is out there on both sides. I guess we just need to pick our own poison Quote
romad1 Posted January 17 Posted January 17 On 1/17/2025 at 4:43 PM, Edman85 said: There's legitimate reasons to not want China controlling social media algorithms, end of story. A real IYKYK situation, and the people that know the most are the ones who pushed the hardest for this. Expand Damn right Quote
romad1 Posted January 17 Posted January 17 On 1/17/2025 at 5:05 PM, CMRivdogs said: I get that and agree. So what happens if say China "sells" the app and algorithms to someone like Musk, who wants it and is a de facto member of the incoming administration. Are there any guardrails in the legislation to prevent them from using our "right to free speech" against us? Big Brother is out there on both sides. I guess we just need to pick our own poison Expand The Tik Tok model exists elsewhere. Doesn’t make elsewhere any less egregious. The PRC has weaponized Tik Tok and is using it to influence and to collect very very valuable data. 1 1 Quote
CMRivdogs Posted January 17 Posted January 17 On 1/17/2025 at 5:08 PM, romad1 said: The Tik Tok model exists elsewhere. Doesn’t make elsewhere any less egregious. The PRC has weaponized Tik Tok and is using it to influence and to collect very very valuable data. Expand It's a bit like whack a mole. Quote
romad1 Posted January 17 Posted January 17 On 1/17/2025 at 5:10 PM, CMRivdogs said: It's a bit like whack a mole. Expand Well this mole is serving the PLA and PRC intelligence. 1 1 Quote
Edman85 Posted January 19 Posted January 19 The tiktok users up in arms over this are kinda only proving the point with their outrage... They are being played by the algorithm. Quote
romad1 Posted January 19 Posted January 19 Allowing Tik Tok to continue in the United States in current configuration is like giving the Japanese spies at Pearl Harbor in 1941 radios because the Japanese Government stroked FDR's ego really hard, maybe gave him substantial cash concessions and that he was in the White House in the first place because of the LOLZ. Those spies might have told Yamamoto to wait a day until the Enterprise had returned. Remains to be seen if the United States can survive a thugocracy for another 4 years Quote
Edman85 Posted January 19 Posted January 19 On 1/19/2025 at 12:56 PM, romad1 said: Remains to be seen if the United States can survive a thugocracy for another 4 years Expand My intent for those four years, or at least the first two, is to just bury my head in the sand as much as possible for a bulk of it and protect my sanity. Maybe midterms impose some much needed guardrails if we haven't already careened off a cliff at that point. 1 1 Quote
Tigermojo Posted January 19 Posted January 19 Tik Tok is very dangerous. Look how dangerous X, Meta and YouTube have proven to be. 1 Quote
romad1 Posted January 19 Posted January 19 On 1/19/2025 at 1:59 PM, Edman85 said: My intent for those four years, or at least the first two, is to just bury my head in the sand as much as possible for a bulk of it and protect my sanity. Maybe midterms impose some much needed guardrails if we haven't already careened off a cliff at that point. Expand Ditto. My plan as such is to do as much good as possible where it can be done and not violate the oaths we've taken because we are responsible for our own honor and can't help it if the system is rewarding the worst violators of those oaths. I was planning to return to Michigan when the wife retires from federal service in a couple years. So, we shall see. 1 Quote
romad1 Posted January 19 Posted January 19 On 1/19/2025 at 3:33 PM, romad1 said: Ditto. My plan as such is to do as much good as possible where it can be done and not violate the oaths we've taken because we are responsible for our own honor and can't help it if the system is rewarding the worst violators of those oaths. I was planning to return to Michigan when the wife retires from federal service in a couple years. So, we shall see. Expand This scene has resonated with me since November 1 Quote
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