tiktok is getting banned :D

@clousems said in #27:
> "Educational content" is not a reason anyone has used a video-based social media platform at any point in time.
I donno it's extremely popular on Youtube and probably 80% of what I watch

Maybe cause Youtube is banned in China (i'm sure there's an alternative to that too tho) - they use douyin more for that void left?

@salmon_rushdie said in #31:
> I donno it's extremely popular on Youtube and probably 80% of what I watch
>
> Maybe cause Youtube is banned in China (i'm sure there's an alternative to that too tho) - they use douyin more for that void left?
Why did china ban yt?

@salmon_rushdie said in #24:
> Ban enough stupid things and they'll eventually get around to something you enjoy
Then that just means whatever you enjoy is deemed stupid by society.
Tiktok is not just stupid, but harmful to society.

@SwissAir-111 said in #32:
> Why did china ban yt?
Because they can't implement server-side censorship and can't control everything the users see,

same reason as they banned google, facebook, wikipedia, reddit, blogspot, bing, instagram, twitch, whatsapp, signal, twitter, tumblr, soundcloud, discord, vimeo, duckduckgo, bandcamp, & chatgpt

that's the short list, also almost every news service outside of China is banned

@salmon_rushdie said in #34:
> Because they can't implement server-side censorship and can't control everything the users see,
>
> same reason as they banned google, facebook, wikipedia, reddit, blogspot, bing, instagram, twitch, whatsapp, signal, twitter, tumblr, soundcloud, discord, vimeo, duckduckgo, bandcamp, & chatgpt are banned
>
> that's the short list, also almost every news service outside of China is banned
THEN DELETE THOSE DAMN VIDEOS!!!

@SwissAir-111 said in #35:
> THEN DELETE THOSE DAMN VIDEOS!!!
The government cannot do that until the bill passes through Congress.

@InkyDarkBird said in #33:
> Then that just means whatever you enjoy is deemed stupid by society.
> Tiktok is not just stupid, but harmful to society.

I assume you see the problem with that line of reasoning, right?

Censorship should never be taken lightly.

lichess.org/forum/off-topic-discussion/tiktok-is-getting-banned-d?page=4#34
Look at the bright side at least they're not as bad as north korea

@clousems said in #37:
> I assume you see the problem with that line of reasoning, right?
> Censorship should never be taken lightly.
No?
The Kardashians are of course stupid, but they aren't really harming anyone.
Meanwhile Tiktok is rotting the brains of the younger generation with addictive content.
Tiktok's large audience means their negative impact is high.

Yeah it apparently causes you attention span to decrease it is also a problem with yt shorts