Was für eine Schande. Der erfolgreiche Pilotversuch des @EDPS, für Europäische Institutionen im #Fediverse#Mastodon und #PeerTube Instanzen zu betreiben, wird in weniger als einem Monat enden.
Die Europäische Kommission unter von der Leyen (CDU / EVP) hat offensichtlich kein Interesse daran, überwachungsarme, europäische Plattformen und damit freien demokratischen Diskurs zu fördern. Morgen wird sie sicher wieder irgendwas zu #TikTok und #Souveränität und so heucheln.
We have like 1.5k followers on #Twitter however, our posts hardly reach 100-200 views. Even posts that went viral years ago are now flat-lined. This means that either hardly any of our followers are still active, or that the algorithm is keeping us artificially low because we are not a subscriber, for example.
On #TikTok we get 1000x the views despite most of the users being mobile gamers we have a much higher CTR. #indiegame marketing on X is dead.
Good for them for standing their ground and not caving to pressure to sell.
Weird situation all around, as the ban really doesn't mean anything with over 200 days to appeal and no action taken to keep American people from using TikTok in the meantime.
https://loops.video is a very promising ActivityPub platform for short form video, and could use your financial support to help fund and sustain this initiative!
I wonder if much of the U.S. campus unrest about #Gaza might be deliberately whipped up by #TikTok and other social media algorithms to soften support for #Biden among young voters.
(My own position is that #Hamas is utterly responsible for the October 7th atrocities. However, #Netanyahu has stupidly fallen into their trap. #IDF is creating orders of magnitude more terrorists than they're killing. Today's Gaza children will grow up with seething hatred and thirst for revenge.)
So, anyone know how this ban is going to be enforced? Or attempted to be enforced?
I'm guessing government forced removal from mobile app stores, but then what about people who already have the app? Or who side-load it on their Android phones. Or use a web app?
It seems like #tiktok uses #HTTP to distribute its videos. What type of heavy lift might it be to create a #fediverse alternative in the wake of the #tiktokban? Asking for my friends. Please RT.
The #TikTok ban -- which will likely face years of litigation and may be ultimately turned down by U.S. courts (as it should be) on first amendment and other grounds, reminds me of another dark episode of bipartisan madness decades ago.
Back in the 1980s in particular, "satanic cult" scares spread across the country, the media, and politicians of both parties. Innumerable lives were ruined as innocent people were imprisoned for long periods based on much the same nonsense as during the Salem Witch Trials of the 17th century. The lack of actual evidence in both cases didn't stop the panic.
While the TikTok ban shouldn't force innocent people into prison or result in them being burned at the stake, many lives that are dependent on income related to TikTok would be negatively affected, and a popular communications medium for a vast number of Americans would be cut off -- while the lack of actual evidence to support such drastic actions is glaring.
There is also much hypocrisy in play. Even as President Biden signed the ban, his campaign apparently plans to continue using TikTok! Not a good look Joe. Not good at all. That's the kind of thing we expect from Trump. You're better than that. -L
TikTok's lack of transparency about what data they suck out of user's phones - not just the TikTok app - was asking for the banhammer.
The fact that they STILL won't disclose what data is uploaded, even with this ban, tells you all you need to know about how badly the app violates user privacy.
My bet is they collect & send text msgs, contacts, emails, app logs, pwd hashes, other social details.
Will #TikTok get banned? Will it get bought? Who will buy it? Will that acquisition even be allowed by the FTC? I would not put it past #Elon Musk to make an attempt here. TikTok is just the latest example of the perils of building an audience in a walled garden. This is why the #fediverse is the way forward.
President Joe Biden has signed a foreign aid bill that will ban TikTok in the U.S. unless its parent company, Chinese-owned ByteDance, divests within a year.
The company has an initial nine months to sort out a deal, though the president could extend that by another three months if he sees progress, reports @theverge. However, TikTok has said it will be fighting the bill in the courts, claiming “facts and the Constitution” are on its side.
“Longstanding Supreme Court precedent protects Americans’ First Amendment right to access information, ideas, and media from abroad,” said Nadine Farid Johnson, policy director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. “By banning TikTok, the bill would infringe on this right, and with no real pay-off. China and other foreign adversaries could still purchase Americans’ sensitive data from data brokers on the open market.”
Kongres USA uchwalił ustawę, która może doprowadzić do zakazu TikToka w Stanach Zjednoczonych, jeśli jego chińska firma-matka ByteDance nie sprzeda aplikacji w ciągu najbliższego roku. Ustawa została uchwalona przez Izbę Reprezentantów i teraz trafi do Senatu, a następnie do podpisu prezydenta.
Ustawa daje ByteDance do 9 miesięcy, z możliwością 3-miesięcznego przedłużenia, na sprzedaż TikToka amerykańskiemu nabywcy zatwierdzonemu przez władze USA. Jeśli nie, apka wylatuje ze sklepów.