This is crystal clear now, but it was less clear before.

I started saying that social media finally figured out how to monetize the platform and it’s customers aren’t people, aren’t even companies, the customers are now billionaires and foreign governments.

Actually US is late to the party: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_TikTok

Why no loops.video?

Thanks, how can two supposedly reputable news sources report compete opposite.

Thank you!

Can you link? This is Lemmy, there are many “News” communities on different servers.

It doesn’t matter what country the CEO is from. The company is currently controlled by China, and can’t be compelled to obey US laws.

US is also late to the party: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_TikTok

Most telling thing is that even though this is a Chinese product, China itself bans it, and instead uses its own version of TikTok.

Twitter also looked great until it didn’t, it even comes from the same guy.

While at this moment BlueSky looks good, we will end up the same way sooner or later. Muskov et. al. figured out how to monetize social media. Now Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and others are tools to manufacture opinion. And certain opinions are worth a lot to certain people.

That’s a red herring, they still have full control of the network.

• Facebook/Instagram/Whatsapp/Oculus
• Amazon
• Apple
• OpenAI
• Google

I am surprised myself, but making progress of not using their products. For example did not buy any gift via Amazon this Christmas.

Thanks!

I’m unfamiliar with this topic, which politicians/countries changed their laws?

No! Only cold dogs.

Oh, c’mon, who’s going to tell him he is the best dad? He needs them.

Fun fact: the founders threw out musk, before it became PayPal, he actually wanted it to be called X, he was hoarding that domain since then.