Mastodawn

Democracy Dies in Dumbass Mar 22, 2024

@taylorlorenz I'm not on the "TikTok = China" bandwagon (it was full).

But I'm definitely on the "TikTok promotes stupidity" bandwagon...I've never seen one site so directly contribute to the dumbing down of America...and that's including Twitter...

Misuse Case Mar 22, 2024

@ShredderFeeder Have you ever heard of Facebook

@MisuseCase and yet still not as bad as tiktok

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-facebooks-systems-promoted-violence-against-rohingya-meta-owes-reparations-new-report/

@ShredderFeeder Facebook is demonstrably worse because it’s been used to incite and/or promote genocides (in Myanamar and Ethiopia) as well as other acts of ethnic cleansing elsewhere.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/07/facebooks-role-in-myanmar-and-ethiopia-under-new-scrutiny

Whatever other problems TikTok may have, it does not have that dubious distinction.

Myanmar: Facebook’s systems promoted violence against Rohingya; Meta owes reparations – new report

Amnesty International

@MisuseCase oh I get that. I was speaking of pure stupidity. I've never seen a single tide-pod on Facebook. It's a haven for morons.

@ShredderFeeder Facebook has its own stupid things like conspiracy theories and the equivalent of chain letters. If you have never seen those kinds of things on Facebook it’s because you weren’t in contact with people who shared them or didn’t go looking for them.

The “Tide Pod Challenge” wasn’t actually popular on TikTok until some journalist found it and wrote about it and then everyone looked it up because the journalist wrote about it.

Democracy Dies in Dumbass

@MisuseCase it's all stupid shit. Useless twats who think they're going to be famous by showing their tits and idiots showing off their stupid dance moves. Tiktok is blocked on my home and work networks. Then again so is Facebook, Instagram, etc.

@ShredderFeeder I don’t know about you but I’m not into “the kids are into it and I don’t understand the appeal, let’s block it.”

@MisuseCase oh I understand it...(It's not hard). It's stupid and doesn't do ANYTHING to improve society.

@ShredderFeeder Bet a lot of people think that about one or two of your special interests

@MisuseCase maybe. But not enough to legislate against them..

@ShredderFeeder Lucky you. Your thing isn’t in competition with a deep-pocketed American megacorporation and it’s not tainted by association with foreigners or young women.

@MisuseCase maybe you need to find a better thing.