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Posted in Deception at 6:31 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Image: FACT FOCUS: A Story About a Deadly TikTok Boat-Jumping Challenge Went Viral. Then It Fell Apart Just because it’s false doesn’t mean TikTok never promotes harming oneself and one’s surroundings.
Summary: The media continues to shill or promote TikTok; the problem is, some of the criticisms are phony and this serves to distract from what TikTok truly is
THE weekly articles about TikTok focus on some of the things that aren’t in Daily Links but still merit a mention. Social control media is, in general, a bad thing. Linus Torvalds called it a “disease” about a decade ago and his remarked aged fairly well (albeit he too had used Google+ until the platform died).
There are already reports that the “FOMO” effect at Facebook’s ‘Twitter killer’ is dying down. Facebook’s founder said it best; don’t be his “dumb fucks”…
> “More than enough harm has been done already; those platforms aren’t tools for activism but for “herding” populations in a top-down fashion.”
But what about TikTok? This platform is exceptionally bad for reasons that we covered before. Its more political aspects are explored in [1-2], the “useful idiots” are noted in [3-4] (guess who funds this lawsuit), TikTok still promotes harm [5-7] and worse are the straw men (misinformation [8-9]), which ‘addicts’ are still in denial about [10], with some attempting to copy/replicate [11] this “success”.
The problem isn’t misinformation about TikTok but misinformation being promoted and spread widely by TikTok. And sure, TikTok isn’t alone in doing that. But what makes TikTok unique isn’t its nationality but the controlling entity, ByteDance.
Society ought to collectively reject such platforms (bans and boycotts can become obsolete if people just choose anything else). More than enough harm has been done already; those platforms aren’t tools for activism but for “herding” populations in a top-down fashion. They lessen society’s ability to think freely and organise. █
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