My 15 year old son has no phone. My 19 year old daughter lives at home, but has almost no data on her $10 plan. I block TikTok at the router.
If you allow generations to grow up and go through public school with lousy (to nonexistent) real education, this is what you get.
We have generations now who don’t know how to THINK. Nobody ever taught them.
My latest phone kept pushing Tic TOC ads for months before it finally stopped.
Anti-Zionism *is* anti-Semitism.
I usually consider the Tic Tokers as a bunch of morons who rely on “influencers” to guide them from cradle to grave. Real losers. The original No Brainers when no brainer described those without brains.
TikTok is ChiComm propaganda
anti-America and pro-China every day
Baloney. Tiktok is stiff competition for Zuckerberg and that’s it. It’s a superior product to Facebook and Instagram and is blowing them away in growth, so Zuck called his purchased congressmen and demanded action against his competitor.
When this anti-tiktok movement started last spring, I didn’t know anything about it. So I tried it. I found it to be a superior product and very positive. A session of doomscrolling on X, Instgram or Facebook leaves you agitated and annoyed. TikTok quickly learns what you enjoy and tailors it to your interests. You can click on a post and see less of them in the future.
You like music, Roman history, Jordan Pederson, travel suggestions and Horses... that is what you’ll get.
You like comedy, dog videos, airplanes and accoustic guitar, that is what you’ll get.
The main risk is that you’ll use it too long. It can be as addicting as any other. But a long session of it doesn’t leave you pissed off and in a bad mood like X, or the others. It’s a very good product.
And danger of my data being stolen by China? Make me laugh... I avoid that by sending it to Zuck, San Francisco, Apple, and Google? Please.
The hate on TikTok is because it is not easy for the FBI to get into it and make them do things for DC.
Maybe I’ve been wrong all this time. When you look at the young skulls of much running around trying to run America, abortion might be America’s only hope. A population of pieces of meat with two eyes isn’t any good either.
Another wonderful feature of Tiktok in the even your teen has it is what is called the TikTok challenge. them open it and select “for you”. Go through ten recommended videos and see what is recommended. That tells you with precision what Junior is looking at.
If a single video of woke crap, porn, atheist pagan crap, drugs etc. appears, THAT is what he is searching for and watching.
But if it’s deer hunting, decent music, how to do guitar chords, Jordan Pederson, and how to pay for college without loans... you can quit worrying.
It serves up a good product, and the best method I have seen for parental control over what they are seeking out.
That’s just a fact. But too many people are being stampeded now into doing Zucks bidding and taking down a tough competitor.
I am just waiting for them to start praising Mein Kampf.
Then ban FB and WhatsApp.
If you’re going to ban Chinese Intel platforms, then ban the American ones also.
Why do you think Google became the empire it is? https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia-and-nsa-research-grants-for-mass-surveillance
You can’t point the finger at the Chinese when they are simply doing what we are and in fact —following— our lead.
The real problems:
At some point in history, instead of government actively protecting people’s privacy rights, they became the worst culprit.
Instead of government ensuring a free and competitive market, they actively chose the winners and losers and caused big tech to be created (a few oligopolies that own and control everything and work with government).
I used to use the World Trade Center as a landmark when flying over the East Coast.
And I once stayed at a hotel in the World Trade Center when attending a scientific conference.
Bin Laden and his evil crew stole that from me, and killed thousands of people as well.
Now we have hordes of feckless youths who agree with Bin Laden and Hamas, and support all the evil that they have done!
They need reeducation, and the only one who wants to do that is Donald Trump!!
I’ve always said that if Bin Laden had released an interview where he let his hair down and wore a black leather jacket, every girl under 30 and half the boys would have converted to Islam on the spot. I’m only grateful he didn’t know how to work the Che Guevara image. Young people are stupid.
If you kids think Bin Laden made some good points, wait'll I tell you about a vegetarian former art student with an ironic mustache whose impassioned manifesto about the Zionist oppression of his people sparked a worldwide movement— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) November 16, 2023