Anonymous mother_russia 3w

…I remember being younger like “China doesnt have youtube? damn their government is FUCKED UP. The US would NEVER”and now it’s like Im a little gagged cause wtf 😳

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Anonymous mother_russia 3w

True. World order is coming soon 👀

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Anonymous #14 3w

Damn I responded to myself thinking I was dif person 💀

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Anonymous #14 3w

I meant to respond on the yikyak account that Im using now so it could look like a dif person responded, not the same one

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Anonymous #11 3w

Uhhhh projection? 💀

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Anonymous #12 3w

I have a job and I care about government censorship my bad

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Anonymous #11 3w

Ok on a real note, how tf do I make a new yikyak account on the same device? 🤔👀

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Anonymous #11 3w

Nah I’m jk I wouldn’t do it I’m just being sarcastic

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Anonymous #16 3w

What do you think insta is?

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Anonymous #23 3w

ur mom’s dating app 💀

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Anonymous #13 3w

That’s the reason brochacho

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Anonymous #20 3w

Burger King doesn’t count

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Anonymous #12 3w

In this job market? You’re better off watching paint dry all day

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Anonymous #13 3w

That’s the feature, not a bug. Welcome to authoritarianism.

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Anonymous #8 3w

You’ll just get the fyp of wherever your VPN says you are. If you say you’re in London, you’ll just get BritTok. America was TikTok’s main source of content. (Also, Nord is a shit service shilled by influencers. If you’re gonna use one, actually do your research.)

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Anonymous #11 3w

As a Chinese person they aren’t comparable at all. We literally have to use a vpn to get out of the great firewall which is what the ccp uses to restrict us from accessing any other countries websites…

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Anonymous #13 3w

That’s the point

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Anonymous #16 3w

Wdym “finally”? Do you think TikTok isn’t already?

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sigh

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Anonymous #38 3w

Yipeeeeeeeeeeeee

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Anonymous #22 3w

Being completely sarcastic here if that wasn’t clear

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Anonymous #40 3w

I wouldn’t do it. It’s not a space for us Americans. Not to mention we ruined their platform for a while there.

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Anonymous #35 3w

Some of us like posting about our hobbies and making new friends, Judy.

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Anonymous #13 3w

tiktok makes kids support palestine oh no 😫😫😫

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Anonymous #39 3w

Honestly, Tumblr is WAY better for that

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Anonymous #28 3w

Obviously it isn’t to the same extent but it has to start somewhere. My point is that our government is taking control of our social media and that is a very slippery slope to china’s situation.

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Anonymous mother_russia 3w

what mother russia meant to say was “Right, they compare in the sense that there’s some overlap. I’m assuming you meant “they aren’t comparable at all” as in “they aren’t equivalent.” You might not be thinking like this, but some people say, “It’s okay because at least we’re not as bad as China.” The U.S. and China aren’t doing the same thing or operating at the same level. China taking it further doesn’t justify what the U.S. is doing.”

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Anonymous #11 3w

Yes exactly, thank you!

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Anonymous #30 3w

unemployed cope

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Anonymous #3 3w

frfr

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Anonymous mother_russia 3w

oh hey girl

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Anonymous #33 3w

i was seeking this exact comment out

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Anonymous #50 3w

Hi!

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Anonymous mother_russia 3w

It’s literally spyware

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Anonymous #41 3w

It’s literally spyware…

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Anonymous #55 3w

What isn’t? Literally everything is spyware. Every app on your phone has your location, passwords, app tracking, number, email, credit card, search history, etc. everything online is spyware. All other apps will sell your data to China and anywhere else they want to or will pay enough. The literal only difference is that China isn’t paying a third party for our data, aka another company isn’t making money off of selling our information. That’s the only reason the government cares about it.

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Anonymous #55 3w

If the issue was actually spyware then they would make laws about all apps being allowed to track data and sell it or provide it to governments, not just TikTok or apps owned or previously owned by companies in China.

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Literally every social media is basically spyware ATP and they're gonna sell the info to whoever they want. Who cares if the spying company is Chinese 😭

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Anonymous #16 3w

You want an invite to WeChat!?😂😂😂

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Anonymous #60 3w

call it toktik

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Why are people downvoting them? They’re right.

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Anonymous mother_russia 3w

It’s not about china getting the user data. It’s about China feeding data to the users. Due to declassified CIA documents we know how effective radio/TV/news propaganda can be at destabilizing a country. Imagine what social media can do.

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Anonymous #63 3w

Every social media platform feeds data to the users. My TikTok feed (half a year ago bc I deleted it) was identical to all my other apps with food recipes and art and things. Whatever data china was supposedly feeding me, I received it from all other medias as well. If we are worrying about information and propaganda, who should get to decide what people can or can’t see and what is or isn’t propaganda?

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Anonymous #63 3w

Everyone is constantly exposed to propaganda, both from the American government and foreign ones, from companies and corporations, etc. but putting laws and restrictions about who can show us propaganda is a very effective way to have the government get full control over what propaganda the people will see.

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Anonymous #63 3w

If they made a law like “companies and corporations can’t be paid to change or influence users’ algorithms or to push any kind of unsponsored content” then anything outside of ads wouldn’t be allowed to be targeted unless the user showed interest in them. But they don’t want that, because they like propaganda.

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Anonymous #63 3w

Plus, even if the new owners of tiktok were explicitly found to be pushing an agenda with its users, it is still entirely up to the people to decide if they still want to use the app. The government should not be allowed to shut down an app for the entire country because they don’t like the propaganda or content shared on it.

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Anonymous #62 3w

They commented the same thing to me and I replied to it thoroughly if you’re actually curious

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Anonymous #63 3w

Personally, I don’t care about TikTok and haven’t had it in a little over half a year and when I did have it, I hardly used it, BUT I don’t like the legal precedent it sets for the government to do this. If it’s allowed now, it will be allowed later. If the government can claim something is bad therefore no one in the USA can have access to it and we need a whole new app only for us that can’t have any investors involved that they don’t like or approve of.

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Anonymous #63 3w

How is it the government can demand no Chinese based investors and a whole new app but can’t demand that active government officials can’t vote or set laws for the companies they are actively invested in? It might seem a little off topic but the whole point of this is corruption and propaganda and our government just doesn’t like it when other countries do the same things to us that they are actively doing. It’s like a cat getting angry that a different cat is playing with one of their mice.

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Anonymous #63 3w

It’s not for our protection, it’s for their control.

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Anonymous #63 3w

If that makes sense

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i have a job?? and unc? 😭

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i’m like barely 18 bro

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Anonymous #26 3w

😂

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welp i thought this was an app used by mainly college freshman but clearly ive been mistaken 😭

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whatevs

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idk it’s js based off all the ppl i’ve met

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no js observation

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Anonymous #55 3w

They found no evidence of it being even remotely suspect. However, there are mountains of evidence of Facebook stealing your information and selling it, which is a crime. So if your racist ass is pissed at TikTok for face filters then you should be ready to go to war against Zuck

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Anonymous #36 3w

If TikTok goes, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, trumps bs one, and all the others need to be banned as well. As they have actual evidence (a shit ton) of stealing our information and selling it. You’re just a racist pos

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Anonymous #67 3w

whataboutism🫨, ad hominem🫨 (also - that would be xenophobia, not racism)

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Anonymous #57 3w

Well considering China and the US are fighting for global dominance and China consistently steals Intellectual property and collects information on American citizens for their own good. But regardless not one American app has a morality code when it comes to selling data. The US army got caught buying data from a Quran app on the App Store a while back.

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Anonymous #68 3w

idk im a little daft so i open websites like “they want my cookies? like I give a fuck, take all of them, Ive got nothing to hide”

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Anonymous #36 3w

To state that TikTok, a Chinese brand, should be banned for no valid reasons and completely unreal concerns would be racism. God you’re a dumbass

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Anonymous #67 3w

false equivalence🫨, ad hominem🫨. and Chinese still isn’t a race.

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Anonymous #63 3w

The "data" china is feeding to its users is...made by its users.

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Anonymous #70 3w

"tiktok feeds brainrot to our kids." Man I sure wonder who's making that brainrot?

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