Comment on What If Free Speech Means Banning TikTok?
Carrolade@lemmy.world 1 week ago
What, you mean an app engineered to turn information into an addictive drug that tries to keep users hooked regardless of whether that is any good for them or not, in the interest of maximized revenues, might not be an exercise of genuinely “free” speech?
Huh, weird.
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yes, but that describes all social media with engagement algorithms.
The only discernible difference between TikTok and Reels is foreign ownership, and the article is truncated before it substantiates its claim about the ban protecting free speech.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Hmmmmmmm
Carrolade@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The shorts format specifically is extra dangerous, it’s sort of the fentanyl to youtube’s heroin. Their specific algorithm is also unusually effective.
It’s true that any other social media that successfully copies tiktok’s methods would become just as bad from a health perspective.