Why are so many people still using this platform?

Just stumbled upon a 9-min video (Invidious link) about Twitter’s brief history after Elon Musk’s takeover. Maybe interesting.

Yeah, that’s not new, but I feel there are still many who are unaware, although I don’t understand why.

Microsoft/Crowdstrike last summer.

I guess many from the .ml communities have alt accounts here and just parrot the propaganda. But it’s certainly true that it’s much better at Beehaw than there.

There is also a very good read on Dr. Acemoglu’s approach to solve climate change:

The Latest Nobel Winner Has a Different Approach to Solving Climate Change - Daron Acemoglu and William Nordhaus have some disagreements.

The agreement was signed by the UK and China (in 1947 if I’m not mistaken). As @hddsx already said, it is China that doesn’t hold up to the deal.

That aside, there is no reason to violate the universal human rights, no matter what the initial agreement says.

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There’s no conclusive evidence that “social media” is bad for kids, much less TikTok specifically or only.

This is blatant misinformation and inconsistent with scientific evidence.

Even Tiktok’s own investigation says there’s strong harm caused by its own platform, let alone the strong body of research on Tiktok and other platforms. Just read tbe article.

Then it’s time to ban this.

This ‘blackout challenge’ on Tiktok was a thing before Tiktok?

@SoupBrick@yiffit.net

Nowhere did I say China was good. That is just a bad faith take. I was hoping you were actually trying to learn. Don’t bother responding, you are blocked.

It is a ‘bad faith take’ if one thinks that ‘China is good’? Is that right?

TikTok’s ‘blackout’ challenge linked to deaths of 20 children in 18 months, report says - (December 2022)

TikTok faces lawsuit over ‘blackout challenge’ death of 10-year-old girl – (August 2024)

Blackout challenge – (Wikipedia)

The blackout challenge is an internet challenge based around the choking game, which deprives the brain of oxygen.[1] It gained widespread attention on TikTok in 2021, primarily among children.[2] It has been compared to other online challenges and hoaxes that have exclusively targeted a young audience.[3] It has been linked to the deaths of at least twenty children.

There is much more on that across the web.

@SoupBrick

So banning social media platforms for censorship is okay, but if you do the same for protecting children’s mental health it is not? Isn’t that weird?

Why is TikTok banned in China, my friend?

@SoupBrick

And why is TikTok (and all other non-Chinese social media) banned in China then? Non-Western.narraties? Palestine? Other reasons?

Is this the reason then why TikTok is already banned in China, TikTok’s parent company’s home country? Because media there is lying?

banning media that shows a non western narrative.

Which media show a non-Western narrative? TikTok? Facebook? Instagram?

@CanadaPlus

I get what you mean by highlighting that no current technology can distinguish between good and bad guys, but I feel there will never be a technology that can do that. A backdoor can easily be used by your government/law enforcement to suppress people and eliminate freedoms, even if there may have been best initial intentions for such a backdoor. This is a fundamentally human -rather than a technological- issue.

Me too :-)

Just stumbled upon this blog post: Elsevier selling access to an open access article, again (2024 edition)

Addition: It’s really time to change this system.

Here comes Saul Justin Newman: 'The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’

In general, the claims about how long people are living mostly don’t stack up. I’ve tracked down 80% of the people aged over 110 in the world (the other 20% are from countries you can’t meaningfully analyse). Of those, almost none have a birth certificate. In the US there are over 500 of these people; seven have a birth certificate. Even worse, only about 10% have a death certificate.