TikTok ban likely to spread to US allies - including UK
TikTok ban likely to spread to US allies - including UK
Analysts have suggested it is "just matter of time" until the US ban on TikTok spreads.
Summary
Analysts predict a potential global ripple effect if the U.S. ban on TikTok remains, with allied nations likely to follow.
Experts cite the ousting of Chinese and Russian tech firms like Huawei and Kaspersky on national security grounds as a blueprint for how the ban could spread worldwide.
TikTok is already restricted on government devices in many countries, and the Five Eyes Alliance nations have issued warnings.
If the ban expands, TikTok risks losing its U.S. user base, curbing revenues and global reach, potentially accelerating its decline.
The internet is becoming balkanized.
Time to start building a parallel community-organized internet around it.
Oh wait we've already planted the seeds of that with what we're doing here on the Fediverse. Carry on, carry on.
Oh wait we've already planted the seeds of that with what we're doing here on the Fediverse. Carry on, carry on.
We don't control the physical layer. We need wireless mesh networking, including long-range links.
A grue after my own heart! 100% exactly, and this is an issue I feel like most other people aren't discussing!
Decentralization is moot if we're using centralized pipes controlled by corporations and governments.
We need a return to community communications like the days of the barbed wire phone networks.
I agree that the decentralized Internet is the best idea, but no one is here. I hope it picks up.
Enough folks are here for me. In fact, I'd argue that this is right about the right size, and that if we get that much bigger, it will become a mess like anything else.
I've spoken about it with some others, and we think that part of the problem with major sites like reddit is the scale itself.
That at a certain point, no amount of modding tools can save you from the flood of users doing things you have to moderate.
It's why I think moderation needs to be a paid position (a la MetaFilter), and a site needs to have a max userbase tailored to how many mods they have available.
When you add more users, you're actually exponentially increasing user interactions. Most of the time, you're actually moderating interactions between users than actual individual users, so you must add moderators exponentially as your userbase grows because the potential connections between users are growing exponentially compared to the number of users.
The big issue is the user experience for the fediverse sucks. Tbh I still don’t understand the whole different servers thing lmao and the apps that have been developed are clearly designed by engineers without a designer input. So far Voyager has had the best UX and Mastodon’s is ok but the others haven’t been great. We gotta find a simple way to explain it to simple people and focus on creating mobile apps with good UX
State run bot farms will eventually come for us here too. Any system that's open is vulnerable.
We could go further. Technically most of us are still utilizing privately owned infrastructure to access the Internet. We should get a Kickstarter or something so we can lay down our own networks. Make them faster. And also include hookers and blackjack.
X is a far greater threat to the information space of our allies
I’ve already deleted my account.
Not that it could be trusted before but at least it was fun.
Watching it descend into right wing nonsense is too much so goodbye. Sticking it to Musk/Zucc whoever will have it. Goodbye instagram too.
Because it worked so well in the US.
Money see
my 30+ year old siblings are complaining their teenage focus platform is getting banned
Vine was better
I don’t think Tik Tok is focused on teenagers. It has a very wide target audience, many adults used it for various information. I’ve heard of senior aged content creators being sad because their platform was a way to connect when they’re lonely and they’re not sure where to go now