A dozen social and racial justice groups said Thursday that the federal law requiring TikTok’s parent company to sell the platform, or face a ban, would disrupt a vehicle that many minority communities use to form connections online and advocate for causes.
Chinese spyware... Hosted in the US. With communications going to US data centers.
Odd that you'd call it Chinese spyware, when the more fair assessment is that it's American spyware that happens to run a content recommendation algorithm from a Chinese company...
I don’t enjoy scrolling a stupid algorithm that’s designed to rot away attention spans, all while harvesting as much data about you as possible to sell off.
I enjoy curating my content and getting a feed of nothing but my subscriptions in chronological order.
That’s apparently too fucking difficult or not “engaging” enough to make people addicted to scrolling.