TikTok ban?

[notabitail]

I think the ban is fine.

 

[FrostRanger]

I do support the ban. Aside from the harm it's causing people (which isn't unique to the platform) the national security risk it poses worries me

 

[OrpingtonManiac]

I think it should stay, but privacy should be inforced more and there should be AI (or something) watching videos before you post and make sure they are appropriate.

Yess! Thats a great idea lol

 

[notabitail]

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1i4pab5/tiktok_is_officially_banned

 

[alinas2010]

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1i4pab5/tiktok_is_officially_banned

Great, I can have all my would be wasted time back now

 

[notabitail]

Great, I can have all my would be wasted time back now

Instagram reels and youtube shorts need to go now.

 

[notabitail]

 

[Noraaaaa]

 

[Daisy June]

What are y’all’s thoughts on the TikTok ban?

@Pampered chicken girl @Ingrid_Grace @Holly Hobbie @Logar @OrpingtonManiac @The Moonshiner

The platform itself is not what I worry about; it is the fact that currently it is in the hands of China. Please hear me out here. During 2018 and 2019, I worked for VIP Kids, which is based in Beijing. For three contract terms, I taught Chinese children how to speak English. An ad to join TikTok came across my screen while I was taking a break between students, so I knew it existed before it became popular here in the USA. During my terms, I became very uneasy in my dealings with the China-based program:
*Any earnings on any book or teaching material I wrote (or write in the future) is to be shared with the company. They really do claim our intellectual property.
*Three of my students talked to me about Christmas--one was going shopping for her sisters, one had a lit Christmas tree behind him, one was super excited about Santa--and they were immediately taken off my schedule. These were students who had been on my schedule Monday thru Friday for months, and their parents chose me.
*If a teacher sipped water, coffee, or even had a cough drop during the 23-27 minute session, that teacher would not get paid for the class.
*If a student was moving paper, writing, drinking--anything at all other than full engagement--the student would receive a text message (which I could see was written in Chinese) and the student would stop whatever it was.
*There are other things I witnessed, like parents hiding under sheets behind the students, peeking out. Just so shady.
*Everything we did, every step we took, everything we said was all monitored. The Chinese government was virtually in my home, and it did not feel right at all, so I stopped allowing them access by not signing any more contracts with them.

 

[Noraaaaa]

The platform itself is not what I worry about; it is the fact that currently it is in the hands of China. Please hear me out here. During 2018 and 2019, I worked for VIP Kids, which is based in Beijing. For three contract terms, I taught Chinese children how to speak English. An ad to join TikTok came across my screen while I was taking a break between students, so I knew it existed before it became popular here in the USA. During my terms, I became very uneasy in my dealings with the China-based program:
*Any earnings on any book or teaching material I wrote (or write in the future) is to be shared with the company. They really do claim our intellectual property.
*Three of my students talked to me about Christmas--one was going shopping for her sisters, one had a lit Christmas tree behind him, one was super excited about Santa--and they were immediately taken off my schedule. These were students who had been on my schedule Monday thru Friday for months, and their parents chose me.
*If a teacher sipped water, coffee, or even had a cough drop during the 23-27 minute session, that teacher would not get paid for the class.
*If a student was moving paper, writing, drinking--anything at all other than full engagement--the student would receive a text message (which I could see was written in Chinese) and the student would stop whatever it was.
*There are other things I witnessed, like parents hiding under sheets behind the students, peeking out. Just so shady.
*Everything we did, every step we took, everything we said was all monitored. The Chinese government was virtually in my home, and it did not feel right at all, so I stopped allowing them access by not signing any more contracts with them.

This is a whole side of TikTok more need to see. I had no idea about some of this, but everything you wrote is incredibly wrong. I cant belive this happened.