You can’t do the latter without doing the former. If you’re not manufacturing consent, squashing decenters, and keeping the population depressed enough at home, your going to have a lot of free thinkers with free time on their hands, and that’s not good for the power holders.

• Nationwide, on average, 79% of U.S. adults are literate in 2023.
• 21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2023.
• 54% of adults have a literacy below 6th grade level.
• Low levels of literacy costs the US up to 2.2 trillion per year.

Also a threat to National Security. Dr. Dre is a terrorist and should be held accountable for his crimes.

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills because no on seems to know or give a shit that Tesla was caught red handed doing this. They effectively murdered those drivers.

That’s America! That’s America too me! 🎶

If your not trying to recover data off anything with a hard drive your doing it wrong!

So you really have no concept of class warfare? What’s that like for you?

The Chinese agencies have access to whatever data they want on you. There is no moratorium on data brokers doing business with China. Even if there were, they would get that data from one of their BRICS partners.

So they have data from TikTok. Now what? What’s next? What’s the threat they pose with that data to the American people or the students and faculty at this university?

What is the university protecting it’s network from specifically?

The CIA has a long history of unlawfully monitoring and retaliating against US Citizens for advocating against US policy, like opposing the war in Vietnam.

From a historical standpoint, it would appear that citizens of the United States have more to fear from the CIA then they do from the People’s Republic of China.

It’s clearly not an infosec or opsec issue, so what else would it be?

Because there is no real Operational Security justification for its ban, that doesn’t instantly catch all US-based social media platforms as well. It’s not about security, it’s about control. The feds have no under-the-table deals or even overt surveillance partnerships with TikTok. They do have that with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and beyond. In fact, the CIA has financial stakes with those companies as well, and often were early sources of funding for them: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-media-is-a-tool-of-the-cia-seriously/

Which I guess is fine because the CIA has never been the enemy of the American people, ever.

It’s weird to think that you would support banning TikTok because of the influence China might have on US Culture, but are totally cool with the fact that Facebook is a tool of cultural export across the whole globe. I don’t remember the last time TikTok was the instrument of genocide, but hey, if you want to support that, go for it.

Then don’t use TikTok? But also, TikTok does up to 10min videos? It’s weird that your reaction is “Shortform content is bad and we should ban the app”

What exactly would be the OpSec justification for blocking it?

What does your vpn tell you about Facebook, Instagrams, Twitter, Threads, and Reddit?

You don’t think corporations are at war with the American people?

Facebook isn’t a threat to national security according to the federal government, which is where the “American people” get this notion from in regards to TikTok.

How could Facebook, a site that regularly colaborates with the feds voluntarily, be a threat to the nation exactly?

I’ve always imagined federation would allow service providers to own their communication channels. Municipalities, state agencies, etc.

It’s about the network effect. As it stands now, the network effect is built on the backs of many different nodes on the network all contributing together.

But as you’ve seen, the amount of people on the network is nothing compared to the total of all the Threads users (~30mil). Once they federate with the rest of the network they will provide a MASSIVE boost to it’s enharent value. As people from other instances connect with friends, brands and public figures and alert services on Threads they are slowly becoming dependent on that content.

The users on Threads are not going to be as privacy or technology curious. Almost all of them will be existing Instagram users. They’re not going to move to another instance, especially if they can’t keep using the threads app, which could have features the other instances don’t support.

Almost all social media platforms have this network effect because they were first and/or strategically built their network.

Facebook utilized Universities, requiring uni email address to register and they had features that made it easy to connect with your classmates. Once they hit a critical mass they opened it public.

Twitter piggy backed off of the 2007 SXSWi conference. Displaying pubic Twitter feeds from users at the event on large LCD TVs, they connected users with a similar occupation and intrist. Sending their tweets per day from 20,000 to 60,000.

Threads is building it’s network on the back of Instagram while also on the back of Twitters failings. They’re co-opting the bad vibes of Elon Musk to syphon users off the platform.

Ultimately, there will be a short term boon in the perceived “value” of the fediverse, and in reality, Threads and Meta will make up a large percentage of that value. Over time, people will have become accustomed to the content Threads provides and when Meta nolonger needs to be federated, people will leave with them.

He would need to run some SQL scripts to drop the content I think. I could be wrong though.

But as a rule, I’d defederate from ANYTHING NSFW image wise. Text NSFW is probably fine.

The liability is way to high.

Have you seen the content on threads? Not sure I care to have it in my feed.