He’s right, we should ban Apple too if we’re getting rid of bullshit we shouldn’t trust.
Of course he’s right but that doesn’t stop generational propaganda from wearing off that easy.
There is somehow always a boogeyman that’s making US suffer, it’s never the US itself because it’s the “greatest country” in the world and everyone is jealous. It can’t be anything else.
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I’m not sure but I think I’ve heard he agrees with you EDIT: or not
Please don’t ban Google 🙏
by that logic, please DO ban google
Nooooo don’t take away my Android :(
android is open source.
it doesnt need google to exist. in fact i think it would be better without it.
I think the guy is sarcastic and getting hit with Poe’s law
AOSP is FOSS, but most implementations in use are not. Not meaning to correct you, because what you said is true, strictly speaking, but I think it is worth noting.
All profit social media should be held accountable for the content, and the accuracy of it. That’s what the money is for—moderation of disinformation and illegal content.
moderation of disinformation and illegal content
Those are strange names for yachts
that would be fine if they decided to apply it to all of it, not just tiktok
I agree.
I don’t use TikTok, I never have, I never will and I advice against anyone else doing so not only for privacy reasons but also the effect it has on mental health and attention span. I lose nothing if it gets banned - and I’m still against banning it. The only difference between TikTok and other social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram is that TikTok is Chinese owned. Do they actively influence western politics by it? Absolutely. We’d be doing the exact same thing if our platforms weren’t banned in China. If the US decides to ban it then that’s a move from the Chinese playbook. Don’t be like China.
I’ll refer you a video by Ryan McBeth. He gives some great insight on why the US is considering a ban.
This feels like a soft landing for Infowars.
He advertised a no-name VPN, do you trust that product with your traffic? The he goes on to cite a movie as a source. And then another one…
Dude I can’t even finish watching this.
I’m not saying he’s wrong, he’s just not credible. You can read citations from primary sources from politicians in actual news articles that are … shockingly … less hairbrained and more concise than this guy.
Private Internet Access is not a no-name VPN. What are you on about?
He works in the cyber security field… But whatever… I did my part and tried to inform… can’t help ya if ya dense.
Can you provide a tldr of the video?
I learned a trick to send videos to AI to summarize but it can’t do this video because there’s no captions.
The title of the video is pretty clear “TikTok is a Cyberweapon”.
Reasonable people can disagree over wether or not that’s actually true… but it’s worth noting China has banned TikTok within their own country. Clearly they think it’s harmful.
It’s also worth noting that congress was acting on an intelligence report which has not been published. I’ve heard there are rumours they might declassify the report and release it. Personally I’m inclined to reserve judgement until we actually know what evidence they have but the fact China has banned it themselves is a huge red flag.
China’s full of red flags these days
It’s the same thing, it’s just called Douyin instead.
I didn’t dig deep, but I got curious after seeing your comment: https://brandmentions.com/wiki/Is_TikTok_Banned_in_China
The only difference between TikTok and other social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram is that TikTok is Chinese owned.
The law would also appy to Russia, Iran, and North Korea.
The idea that “it’s ok cause we’d do the same” is ridiculous. There is no comparison: China is an authoritarian government and the parent company is practically an arm of the state. There are legitimate criticisms of American tech companies obviously, but they’re ultimately subject to the market and democratic governments. We shouldn’t be doing any business with authoritarians in the first place, much less inviting them to control a significant social media app in the guise of a legitimate business.
I mean acting like American tech companies aren’t basically an arm of the American intelligence services is a bit ridiculous too. Just cause they also make money and have to compete in the “fair market” doesn’t change that. If anything it makes it worse cause they’ll sell their data to anyone, whether that be America or China. I’m not saying what TikTok does is good, I’m saying all these companies are bad and focusing on one like this because it’s foreign is dumb.
I agree. We do the same and it’s not okay when we do it either. But you can recognise that the world (and the US at large,) needs better privacy laws and regulations regarding user data while also feeling that tik tok is invasive and so closely tied to the CCP that it is actually a dangerous attack vector that has its hooks in the American people. I honestly think the bill is BS. Sure, the CCP is a threat to US national security. And yes, they absolutely are using tik tok to that effect. I fully believe that. But I want user privacy laws. I want protections. I don’t want this kind of invasive app (tik tok, meta, Amazon, google et al) tracking me. And I want the government to do something to allow me to take back control of my data.
America is an authoritarian government as well what’s your point
Not on a comparable level with China, Iran, or Russia. This isn’t a fair comparison. Which makes this comment somewhat disengenuous.
At this point America is censoring a Genocide which puts them exactly where China and Iran are.
And the WMD’s in Iraq of course which killed millions of Iraqis and turned out to be a complete lie.
The only difference is that you believe there’s a difference.
I literally see post about the Genocide all the time and not just on Lemmy. So is the government censoring that? Is it?
You’re talking about genocide right now? Government came and got you, did it?
Seriously, nothing is stopping people from talking about it, sharing information, or providing claims it’s happening or proof. If you’re suggesting platforms are taking that info off their servers, I am just gonna say that social media is awash with videos, articles, and claims. Those platforms may remove data that violates their EULA, or would leave them open to litigation which makes sense. You wouldn’t make the claim that they’re censoring the war on Ukraine. But violent video of first hand accounts have absolutely been removed from social media. The same happened in Yemen, Iran, and half a dozen other war torn countries including several African countries.
I don’t agree with the US providing weapons or support to Israel. I don’t disagree that genocide is happening in Gaza. I am not Pro Israel. I absolutely believe that Israel is actively violating the Geneva convention and committing crimes against noncombatants and people who have nothing to do with any terrorist activity.
But I also agree that Hamas is a terrorist group. And unfortunately that’s just how any group of anti-government freedom fighters who attack their governments are labelled. It’s been this way throughout history. The American side of the revolutionary war? They were terrorists. The victors write the history books everywhere.
And hiding in schools, places of worship, and hospitals and getting innocent people killed because those are losses you’re willing to allow? That’s terrorist behaviour. What is happening is absolutely unconscionable. From both sides. Hamas has its fair share of atrocities. To them, that’s the price of freedom.
IMO the important detail is about the control the country’s government is able to have and use over the company. What things are they sharing with the state? We know the big American social media companies are either forced or choose to comply with sharing data, or the data is used without asking. I don’t trust Meta, Google, and Microsoft any more than I trust ByteDance (the makers of tik tok), and I don’t want my data to be used by the US, China or anyone else.
I don’t disagree. If you read any of my statements on this topic you’d see that I am not Pro US when it comes to US companies and user data. It’s a crap shoot. Literally every American tech company is supplying the US government with access to their user data, and that’s been in the news for years. Their user data centric business practices and ad aggregation services are how they make money and that’s what I would think is a well known fact except some people even here don’t seem to recognise it. Tik tok is definitely not alone in this.
However, the way that US and China control and access that data is not the same, and further the way the two countries are run, the control they exert over their citizens and the repercussions are different. My statement was not about whether or not you should trust either government or the tech companies of either country more or less.
It was acknowledging that the two countries and their relationships with their citizens is not the same and further that while both are problematic (and I don’t necessarily agree with forcing the sale of Tik tok because I don’t think it will fix the real problem which I believe is user privacy and regulation of that/ rights given to users), tik tok is problematic and China is not safe. China should not be allowed to operate this kind of operation in a foreign sovereign nation and use it as a way to exert outside control over its populace. And yes. No country should be doing that, US included.
If you think this bill is somehow going to make your user data safer? You’re wrong. If you think tik tok is going to just up and leave the US? I seriously doubt that. If you think the US and China are one and the same, you’re wrong. Every single time there is push back against these companies in the US, we gain ground. That cannot ever be said for the Chinese populace in relation to the CCP’s control over the user data of its citizens and they are actively monitoring those citizens (which I wouldn’t claim the US is doing whole hog). If people in China try to push back against the monitoring the CCP disappears them and their families. Jack Ma? Made some anti-CCP comments and disappeared for like a year. What billionaire in the US is just missing for a year after making anti-government comments?
And unless you have some data to back up that the US is actively monitoring every single one of its citizens user data (yeah I know about the silly NSA data base and the laws and protocols enacted after 9/11, I’m talking new and relevant data) to back up any claims that China and the US access, or treat user data the same, don’t bother responding.
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it would be hypocrisy if ccp’s china were democratic, didn’t practice party dictatorship or rule by law.
else it’s right to ban an app that could sway public opinions,especially one that is a hostile towards america.
Ah yes the two party system of Genocide and Genocide. A real democracy.
At least China has the decency to be honest about their dictatorship.
i don’t get what you mean.
Go google Julian Assange he’ll tell you
what will he tell me about?
Uhh, it’s not hypocrisy.
The US government demanded access to the US based social media companies to pull whatever sensitive information they wanted. They just don’t want China to have the same access.
Also, TikTok has been caught abusing exploits to get additional information outside of the permissions granted by users. IIRC, TikTok was caught stealing the MAC address from phones a few years back.
It’s odd the Steve Wozniak is pretending to be ignorant of the distinction. US government wants Intel, and doesn’t want a rival nation to possess similar Intel. That’s basic intelligence 101.
Woz, like me, believes that nobody should have that intel. Trusting nation-states is always a bad idea.
Not to mention everyone’s ignoring how China bans multiple American internet services so they can force their population to use Chinese replicas of the same thing.
The US government demanded access to the US based social media companies to pull whatever sensitive information they wanted. They just don’t want China to have the same access.
Or Russia, Iran, or North Korea.
Common Wozniak W
Lol
This is the guy who knew how to solder, not the guy who invented walled gardens
I’m listening to a 4 part Behind the Bastards on Steve Jobs right now, and Woz is presented like a pretty good dude, all things considered
I still think it’s a bit funny that someone on Apple’s payroll is being critical of another company’s shady business practices when they are essentially doing just as much shady shit with user data.
The guy who left and sold most of his stock in 1985 because he didn’t like Jobs doing exactly this kind of thing?
I didn’t say you had to find it funny. Humour is subjective. But go off.
I’ll explain since people insist. You’d think Apple’s lawyers would have advised against this since really the company also makes money from gathering and monetizing user data. But apparently not.
He’s still the guy making money off the slave labor Apple employs. Best thing he can do is shut up and play the role of the cool guy billionaire who isn’t out of touch, but defending China and tik tok doesn’t help his image
According to what I just looked up, they pay him a weekly salary of $50 so he’ll show up every so often for special events. Hardly raking in the big bucks.
Look at what they paid Steve Jobs
$10,200,000,000 net worth when he died in 2011.
It would take Woz 4 million years to make that much on what Apple currently pays him
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Calling out hypocrisy is not the same as defending China and TikTok.
No, we’re not going to ban League of Legends come on
Man who profits from slave labor in China, is against China being fucked with. Why is this news?
Woz doesn’t profit from slave labor in China any more than any of us since he hasn’t actually worked for Apple since like 1985. Since then, he’s started a number of other companies doing a bunch of other stuff, like cleaning space junk most recently
Oh great. So we can be surrounded by clean space junk
Lmao, unironically made me laugh 😄
Ok ok ok 🤣
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Right, exactly. He could be worth billions if he wanted to, but he quit Apple early on. He still has shares of Apple which means he is worth that much, but he’s also given shares away to other Apple employees just because he believed they deserved them more. He does profit off slave labor in China, but my argument was that it’s not any more than the rest of us. Basically everyone participating in capitalism will benefit from its worst parts, but Steve Woz is not the poster child for capitalism, greed, or slave labor.
Are you saying “not any more than the rest of us” as in “lots of people own stocks or investment accounts and many of those are in businesses profiting from China”?
I think the difference for me is that he’s in a position to influence things since he’s famous, and he has a ton of money from it already.
Norms need to invest in stocks to be able to retire or afford healthcare. He has the luxury to not need to worry about any of this.
But more importantly, stock holders can absolutely (and should) criticize the companies which they hold stocks in. They have power to vote and influence their business decisions. Owning stock does not mean you have to agree with existing decisions.
Are you saying he doesn’t profit off apple as one of its largest shareholders?
He was one of the largest shareholders. One third of the company in fact… but he sold most of those way back when they were worth almost nothing (as in hundreds of dollars). And as far as we know virtually all the rest of his shares since then have been gifted to charities. Mostly schools.
“I do not invest. I don’t do that stuff. I didn’t want to be near money because it could corrupt your values.” – Steve Wozniak, five years ago
He makes a good living doing speeches at universities/etc - that’s his primary wealth, not his shares in Apple. If he had kept even a tenth of the shares he once owned, he’d be richer than Elon Musk. As it is, the house he lives in is likely more than half of his total worth (it’s a nice house, with six bedrooms, in a nice location… more than most people can afford but hardly extravagant, 6 bedrooms is enough to host a large family holiday party, which I think is quite reasonable).
That doesn’t count if he’s saying something I agree with
My man doesn’t even see the name of the person, just the company he worked for… Over 30 years ago.
Bro, do some reading, it would help you.
He’s a major shareholder and has made over $150 million off his apple association. Stop defending the ultra rich, this guy would fuck and kill your children if it made him an extra buck, he doesn’t give a fuck about you. Don’t buy into their pr “I’m a good one” narratives
this guy would fuck and kill your children if it made him an extra buck, he doesn’t give a fuck about you.
Lol this is the most confidently incorrect statement about Woz I’ve ever read.
Can you cite a source for that?
Also, I realize 150m is a lot of money to people… But making only 150m ever from apple stock? Sounds like not alot considering apples valuation so I doubt him being a major holder with that profit from stocks, nor enough that I’d consider “ultra rich” when CEO of reddit makes more than that as a salary per year apparently. That’s not even considering stock spez owns.
Judging by your comment history, you seem like a rather unhappy person. I hope you can find peace some day soon, I don’t think social platforms will help you find that peace however. Good luck.
