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●● TikTok Still Encouraging and Rewarding Deadly Behaviour, But Beware the Straw Men

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

=> 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”…

=> said it best

“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.

=> 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. █

=> bans and boycotts

Related/contextual items from the news:

●●●● 2023-07-14 From TikTok to Taking on the CIA: The Resurgence of Cutting Political Comedy with James Rehwald

●●●● 2023-07-13 Influencer Arrested Over TikTok Video Satirizing Wealthy Emiratis in Dubai Shows Limits on Freedoms

●●●● 2023-07-13 New Lawsuit Claims Texas TikTok Ban Violates First Amendment

●●●● 2023-07-13 University professors in Texas are suing the state over ‘unconstitutional’ TikTok ban

●●●● 2023-07-13 Doctor Who Livestreamed Surgeries on TikTok Has License Yanked, Thank God

●●●● 2023-07-12 Plastic Surgeon Who Livestreamed Procedures on TikTok Banned From Practicing Medicine in Ohio

●●●● 2023-07-13 Soldiers torture shepherds in Diyarbakır, share video on TikTok

●●●● 2023-07-12 FACT FOCUS: A Story About a Deadly TikTok Boat-Jumping Challenge Went Viral. Then It Fell Apart

●●●● 2023-07-11 Fans roast Kylie Jenner for using TikTok’s viral aging filter: ‘You can afford to fix it’

●●●● 2023-07-10 People who don’t use TikTok think it’s a national security threat

●●●● 2023-07-10 Tumblr’s building a TikTok inspired feed in bid to grow its user base

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