tiktok ban

[spacefem]

I am absolutely livid about the tiktok ban. It's pure corruption, pure money, I do not believe for .001 seconds that the government is concerned about our privacy or foreign election interference. that negative influence already happened on facebook and nobody cared!

my tiktok following was a blast. 38 thousand followers, 700 mutual friends. it was the friendliest mix of pilots, Midwesterners, progressives, diversity advocates, artists, critics, engineers, people of all genders, races and backgrounds.

I guess the only upside is maybe it will get me back here to writing, now that I can't tell my life stories on tiktok. writing was always healthier and more discrete. no company bans on what I'm doing with dreamwidth. I can keep all of this fairly secret. and as I told my tiktok - wherever I tell my stories, they are the stories, I will tell them elsewhere. I get them out, get them organized, they help me in life just to put thoughts into words, however I do it.

I was better at writing about my books that I read. nobody on tiktok cared much for my book posts, they never went anywhere, I heard all these things about booktok but it turns out that was mostly for fantasy romance or something that I am not against, just not that into. there's an evenness of blogging that I miss. nothing goes totally flat or totally viral, it just is. I could be better about being here and being a friend. I could finish printing out my journals from 2020 and 2021. 2022 might have been lost to the world of short form video.

I'm still mad about it, I'm still sad to be losing it. just trying to find any silver linings.

Comments

[elainegrey]

The speed of connection seems much higher in short form -- i just can't keep up. Here is a different pace.

You had been sharing some pretty intense things about your family before you drifted away: i hope things are going well other than the TikTok ban!

[fbhjr]

38 thousand! Wow!

[anais_pf]

Somehow I had no idea you were on TikTok. I would have followed you! (I am not a big TikTok user but I would go over there to check on a few favorites). The ban is the product of political corruption. Politicians do not want people talking directly to each other, en masse. And they want to be able to control social media.

[anais_pf]

I've missed your posts, so I hope you do post here a bit more often.

[kazzy_cee]

I'm not a tiktok user, so I'm being selfish and liking that you'll be here more..

[lepid0ptera]

I am sorry, though I'd be happy to hear more from you here.

I never really got into TikTok personally but I agree the decision is stupid! This new Supreme Court is garbage.

[lepid0ptera]

I will say... keep posting there anyway? VPNs exist. I live in the UK so I can still see your stuff quite easily. I used VPNs to see the US stuff I'm not allowed to see because of dumb EU laws!

[ravena_kade]

I dont understand the tie Tok ban at all. It's just because the gov't couldn't tax it or something like that. FB and Twitter are more of a threat.

hey said that if it was bought by someone else then it could stay in the U.S. If Trumpty Dumpty wasn't some good PR then he should have his buddy Musk buy it.

[yamamanama]

This whole thing was a PR stunt by Trump.

[siglinde999]

I would love to see you writing here more again. I was never into TikTok. I know the Chinese government might not care about 95% of what was posted there, but the fact that they had access to all the data, and possibly ways into other data on people through their phones, made me very uncomfortable. I am not a Meta fan either, but least I had (until now) a reasonable level of comfort that my data was only being scraped for advertising purposes.