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ericmay01/17/20251 replyview on HN

TikTok is being banned because of the algorithm, not user data. Though that’s a nice side benefit.


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JohnMakin01/17/2025

That’s theater too - at least without acknowledging the clear harm that american algorithm does as well. The logic simply doesn’t add up, unfortunately - I am for banning all social media apps.

Like foreign adversaries can already run influence campaigns on american media platforms, often, the american ones will even cooperate with it. It’s just theater. They dont need tiktok to do whatever people are saying the reason is.

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