TikTok CEO #ShouZiChew has said the company will take the fight against the new law to the courts, but some experts believe that for the #US#SupremeCourt, national security considerations could outweigh #FreeSpeech protection.
Abgesehen davon, dass ich TikTok nicht mag weil ich deren Zweck nicht einsehe, nutzen es sehr viele und vor allem sehr junge Menschen und dies auch kommerziell. Wie eben YouTube & Co. und eigentlich nicht viel anders aber auch als politische Propaganda eine Konkurenz zusätzlich.
🧵 …deswegen macht es TikTok in der USA nicht besser oder gar sicherer. Es bleibt auch wenn verändert, keine wahre Kommunikation, sondern plumpe Propaganda vorallem an Kindern und Jugendlichen (siehe oben).
»Netzpolitik – TikTok bereitet US-Kopie von Algorithmus vor:
Mögliches Verbot des Video-Service in den USA zwingt den chinesischen Mutterkonzern Bytedance erfinderisch zu werden«
🧵 …nun ja, dies war nur eine Frage der Zeit. Es war mehr als vorhersehbar, dass TikTok sich wehrt um den Markt abzugeben und dabei zu verlieren. Meine Meinung und Kritik diesbezüglich, siehst du in den Toots oben.
»Netzpolitik: Tiktok-Mutter Bytedance will mit Klage drohendes US-Verbot abwenden.
Geforderter Verkauf "weder kommerziell, noch technologisch, noch rechtlich" möglich.«
We could witness billions of users joining the #Fediverse soon, which means instance admins on #Mastodon, #Misskey, #Lemmy & #Pixelfed will need to brace themselves & raise funds to handle the pending traffic.
As ByteDance launches a publishing company, many in the book world wonder if it will create an uneven playing field by boosting its own authors at the expense of others.
This morning, an e-commerce site (built on Laravel and well-developed, hence quite efficient) started showing signs of slowing down. This had also happened a few weeks ago, and we partially managed the situation by increasing the VPS power and freeing up the physical machine from other loads.
An analysis of the nginx log reveals that the server is being bombarded with requests from Bytedance. As often happens in these cases, I attempted to firewall the IPs associated with the bots.
However, as soon as I block one IP, (or entire class) the crawling resumes (violently, almost like triggering a DoS attack) from another IP on another class.
They don't respect the robots.txt file.
The IPs they use online don't match the ones from which the requests originate; they probably constantly acquire and change IP blocks.
It makes me wonder: if everyone online behaved like this, everything would collapse in a matter of minutes.
One of Susquehanna’s richest bets was purchasing a 15 percent stake in TikTok’s parent company, #ByteDance, in 2012;
according to the Wall Street Journal, Yass’ personal stake in the company is about seven percent.
While everyone is up in arms over the prospective #TikTok#Ban, no one seems to be paying attention to #BobbyKotick's open desire to buy a controlling stake off Chinese owners, #bytedance
Yes, THAT Bobby Kotick. See below for a quick reminder. Strangely, this never comes up in conversation.
A cynical sod might even wonder if the TikTok furore is just the US government nobbling a competitor to its native social media dumpster fires.
Rückkehr ins Büro: TikTok überwacht Anwesenheit der US-Angestellten und droht
Bei TikTok in den USA müssen die Angestellten ab Oktober zurück ins Büro, einige jeden Tag. Überwacht wird das mit einem speziellen Tool. Der Frust ist groß.
Truly disturbing information. You certainly should not trust any large tech companies, but #ByteDance makers of #TikTok is emerging as just about a worst-case scenario. Support #decentralization
House approves sell-or-be-banned TikTok measure, attaching it to foreign aid bill
The House on Saturday passed legislation that could trigger a nationwide ban of TikTok.
It would mark the first time ever the U.S. government has passed a law that could shut down an entire social media platform, setting the stage for what is expected to be a protracted legal battle.
The Biden administration reportedly rejected an offer from TikTok’s parent company ByteDance in 2022, that would have given it extraordinary influence over the world’s most popular app.
The proposal would have allowed federal officials to pick TikTok’s U.S. operation’s board of directors, given the government veto power over each new hire and seen TikTok pay an American company that contracts with the Defense Department to monitor its source code.
It even offered to give federal officials a “kill switch” that would shut the app down in the United States, if it was determined to be a threat. So why was it declined? The Washington Post has more (may require subscription).
After failing to stop a bill that could ban it in the U.S., TikTok now faces two big hurdles — the U.S. judicial system and the Chinese government, reports @theverge
While ByteDance has promised to fight the ruling, which requires it to divest the app within a year, it won’t be an easy fight, with experts unsure how keen judges will be to weigh in on decisions of national security importance. If it fails, it will have to consider selling TikTok. But that’s not a decision it will be able to make alone — it’ll need the Chinese government’s permission.
The hashtag #BanTikTok has started to gain momentum in the #Philippines because of the recent muting/silencing of a renowned journalist's coverage of the West Philippine Sea issue. Which in turn also revealed that a music video / campaign of a local celebrity regarding WPS was also muted earlier.
Hopefully, this is the spark we are waiting for to get this Communist China-controlled service banned in the country.
Unfortunately, one user shared a photo of a news report on how the DICT (Department of Information and Communications Technology) said that we should be careful with banning apps as these are simply technologies, and small businesses are using it.
> ANC: The DICT asserts it needs to be careful in supporting a ban on social media apps, esp. since they benefit small businesses.
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> DICT: Let's not single out a particular app. This is just tech. There are evils in it, but there are also good things in it.
It was a poor attempt to deflect the question. Why? The topic was not about the technology, it was about banning [highly questionable] social media apps. There is a huge difference between technologies and services.
The public is not asking to ban the technologies behind “short form videos”. The people of the Philippines are demanding to ban a service.
USA: Wie geht es nach dem TikTok-Ultimatum weiter?
Verkauf oder faktisches Verbot: Mit dem vom US-Kongress gesetzten Ultimatum eskaliert der Streit um TikTok in den USA. Was folgt aus der überparteilichen Initiative - und wie realistisch ist, dass TikTok in den USA verkauft wird?
‘#TikTok is gearing up for a long legal battle to fight legislation in the US that threatens to ban the app in its largest market if its Chinese owner #ByteDance refuses to sell the viral video platform.’ https://on.ft.com/49M1i8K
I think it's very telling the #US gov't added a way for TikTok/#ByteDance to weasel out of the ban if they decide to sell. Yeah, as if!
But OK. Assuming their "plan" works and #TikTok is sold. Now what?
Would they turn TikTok into a #privacy-respecting #FreeSoftware, fixing all the issues they like to complain about? Or would it just remain the same shitty #proprietary app with the only difference being your data is collected by a different country?
The bill that could ban TikTok in the US looks set to be fast-tracked in Congress, with its inclusion in a package of foreign aid bills.
A similar bill already passed the House in a lopsided, bipartisan 352-65 vote in March, but as @NBC reports, it has since been stalled in the Senate.
Now, the House plans to package a slightly revised TikTok bill with billions in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, making it somewhat harder to ignore, and all but guaranteeing the potential ban will be signed into law.
TikTok Sells A Lot of Books. Now, Its Owner Wants to Publish Them, Too | NYTimes (archive.fo)
As ByteDance launches a publishing company, many in the book world wonder if it will create an uneven playing field by boosting its own authors at the expense of others.