<story><title>TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy</title><url>https://scribe.rip/i-was-on-tiktok-for-30-days-it-is-manipulative-addictive-and-harmful-to-privacy-9e25445a9122</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>8f2ab37a-ed6c</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m with the rest of the commenters here in being puzzled about why TikTok is being singled out here with respect to the other social media apps. It&amp;#x27;s like comparing whiskey, vodka, and tequila in terms of health risks. You can&amp;#x27;t single out one as particularly pernicious when they do about the same thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>justapassenger</author><text>Facebook, IG, Snapchat and other old social apps already had their fair share of dirt thrown at them. TikTok didn’t, and lots of people think that they are just a cool app for teenagers to record their dancing.&lt;p&gt;So it’s more about telling people who already know that alcohol is bad, that White Claw is also bad.</text></comment>
<story><title>TikTok is manipulative, addictive, and harmful to privacy</title><url>https://scribe.rip/i-was-on-tiktok-for-30-days-it-is-manipulative-addictive-and-harmful-to-privacy-9e25445a9122</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>8f2ab37a-ed6c</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m with the rest of the commenters here in being puzzled about why TikTok is being singled out here with respect to the other social media apps. It&amp;#x27;s like comparing whiskey, vodka, and tequila in terms of health risks. You can&amp;#x27;t single out one as particularly pernicious when they do about the same thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>echelon</author><text>1. TikTok appears to be the optimum in social media platform evolution for the foreseeable future. The other platforms don&amp;#x27;t even come close. TikTok presents a perfect stream of user interests - no &amp;quot;friends&amp;quot; that bare little interest graph similarity. It&amp;#x27;s all delivered in a video funnel (great for ads) and A&amp;#x2F;B tests are so natural they&amp;#x27;re part of the platform itself. Highly optimized dopamine-triggering doom scrolling perfectly tailored to the viewer.&lt;p&gt;2. Some people are worried about the CCP exerting control to learn about sensitive leaders and their families [1] or to persuade populations at scale [2]. The app has been shown to capture all keyboard input [3], clipboard contents [4], and record much more than it needs to function. Furthermore, all US-based social media is blocked in China, and there&amp;#x27;s an argument for reciprocity. The topic of Facebook being used to gather international intelligence for the US is not typically mentioned in the same conversations.&lt;p&gt;[1] opinion; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wsj.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;on-tiktok-its-all-fun-and-games-until-beijing-wants-your-info-china-ccp-national-security-app-store-apple-google-information-data-11658347613&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.wsj.com&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;on-tiktok-its-all-fun-and-games...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.economist.com&amp;#x2F;interactive&amp;#x2F;briefing&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;the-all-conquering-quaver&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.economist.com&amp;#x2F;interactive&amp;#x2F;briefing&amp;#x2F;2022&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;th...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.notebookcheck.net&amp;#x2F;TikTok-is-monitoring-all-keyboard-inputs-and-taps-on-iOS.641707.0.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.notebookcheck.net&amp;#x2F;TikTok-is-monitoring-all-keybo...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[4] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;threatpost.com&amp;#x2F;tiktok-to-stop-clipboard-snooping-after-apple-privacy-feature-exposes-behavior&amp;#x2F;156945&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;threatpost.com&amp;#x2F;tiktok-to-stop-clipboard-snooping-aft...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>