| ▲ | ok123456 13 hours ago |
| They have? They released a Marty Rimm-level report citing that pro-Palestinian was mentioned more than pro-Israeli content in ratios that differed from Meta products. This was the 'smoking gun' of manipulation when it's more of a sign Meta was the one doing the manipulation. |
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| ▲ | tptacek 13 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| The opinion today has almost nothing to do with how content is controlled on the platform; the court is very clear that they'd have upheld the statute based purely on the data collection issue. |
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| ▲ | ok123456 13 hours ago | parent [-] | | That report was pivotal during the vote for the law and belies the actual interests. | | |
| ▲ | tptacek 13 hours ago | parent [-] | | The court addresses that directly, and every member of it, despite agreeing on little else, disagrees with you. | | |
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| ▲ | derektank 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I don't know what Congress has said but there absolutely is evidence that TikTok has been used to spy on users for political reasons. A US based engineer claims that he saw evidence that Hong Kong protestors were spied on in 2018 at the behest of a special committee representing the CCP's interests within ByteDance. This is not surprising, most major corporations within China maintain a special committee representing the government's interests to company executives https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/6/7/china-spied-on-ho... |
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| ▲ | ok123456 13 hours ago | parent [-] | | The DHS does that in the United States. Every major social media and dating application has a law enforcement portal. This was documented in BlueLeaks. | | |
| ▲ | derektank 13 hours ago | parent [-] | | Do law enforcement portals provide current location information? There's an extended history of the TikTok being used to spy on the location of user devices https://archive.ph/kt0fY | | |
| ▲ | ok123456 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yes, in some cases. Grindr is the most obvious one. | | |
| ▲ | derektank 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | Okay, that's because Grindr users choose to publicly share their current location; that's the point of the app. Governments having an API that lets them access data that users publicly share seems substantively different from governments having access to private information, obtaining that information by subverting internal controls at TikTok and ByteDance intended to keep it private. I think anyone not arguing for arguments sake would acknowledge that | | |
| ▲ | ok123456 12 hours ago | parent [-] | | Most apps coerce their users into sharing location information. That's why they released apps and did not just use progressive web apps in the first place. But, this is done under the guise of commercial interests, usually advertising, so it's okay? |
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