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Why does the ban on TikTok matter to so many people? (kbin.melroy.org)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Like, I know why it's being banned or has been banned or whatever. I just don't understand the rage behind to keep this shitty ass social media platform that is essentially Vine 2.0

TikTok has been the detriment to society today as Facebook was and is. People doing stupid challenges. People's attention span getting lower and lower. People pretending they're more popular than life itself because of their faux acting and lip-syncing.

Why keep the piece of shit?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

I don't know if I'm about to say something that someone has already stated but there are a few reasons I'm aware of.

There is nothing preventing another platform from becoming another TikTok. All of the problematic users will just migrate to some other platform that probably has less moderation and continue doing everything they were doing before.
I've seen some concern about what it could do to the economy. A lot of content creators on TikTok were making money from it and some were successful enough to make a living. Some of these users have expressed that they were either unable to gain an audience on other major platforms or they were banned from them, making TikTok their only significant income source.
There are concerns about the hypocrisy of banning TikTok for spying on it's users when other platforms and services, like Facebook and Windows, do pretty much the same thing.