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NEWS Tik Tok - WTF?
- Thread starter ChuckMK23
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Not NMCI, that would be for Intranet...in addition to being non-mission capable.
Avenue Q already settled this debate and wrote a song about it.
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Dr Cox in Scrubs did say that if they took away porn on the internet there would only be one website left. It would be called "bring back the porn."
You don’t still call it surfing the World Wide Web?
The porn industry has always pushed both the video industry, and the consumer technology side as a whole. While there were several factors, one contributing factor why Betamax went away was because the porn industry settled on VHS, despite it providing lower quality (but longer run times).
The industry was also trying to do video streaming before it was really ready for prime-time, as well, but that helped push the development of better codecs, while also helping out improving consumer bandwidth demands.
Look at the big increase in self production stuff- lights, cameras, sound, easy to use mixing and video editing software. It wasn't the music or movie industry that drove this stuff, it's OnlyFans. The big studios have a vested interest in keeping the large recording/sound/video studios as the gatekeepers to making money in any entertainment industry.
I think YouTube was largely responsible for that, predating OF by quite a bit.
I still do say, "Surfing the Web"
I'll have to look into that 1Password program. My way of doing passwords is to write out very complex passwords by hand and keep a notebook with them all. I tend to use the same password for things like news website memberships (Wall Street Journal, New York Times, etc...) but for my bank account, credit cards, etc...I use distinct, very complicated passwords. I have a lot of them memorized, but when I don't, I just look them up. On technology, so basically war and porn have been the major drivers of modern technology then?
CallumJohn
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Really varies, complicated issue. The basic premise is that "TikTok" is a subsidiary of ByteDance, a Chinese company, and according to Chinese laws the CCP is entitled to see and/or seize any information that a company operating within it is storing, which is obviously a massive security risk for the US, especially because so many soldiers use TikTok. I personally swore off TikTok a while ago because it practically gives you ADD - not kidding. Anyway, Congress wants to shut down TikTok on US soil, not because its ruining the youths brains (They like that) but because it may pose a legitimate risk to national security, since the Chinese government can seize any info they want, which includes specialized facial information that's built in for "Filters" (It actually stores and saves the layout and composition of your face), but not only that, they can analyze the metadata, like the posts time, location and the specifications of the camera used to film and post the video, and with the help of their algorithmic black magic they can quite literally change the tides of US elections, they've got millions of US citizens, including soldiers, hooked up to, when looked at as an info-gathering service, quite literally the most effective and wide reaching information gathering network to exist in the entirety of human history. China is doing this with other apps too, a popular Chinese corporation called Tencent has stocks in all of the most popular chatting companies.
People who argue against the ban usually use one of two arguments, the first one is that "TikTok US is stores all of their information in the US so China can't get their hands on it", but the fact is, China can still access all of that info whilst in China. They have thousands of plants in TikTok USA, and the company is still subject to the info laws from China. The second is that congress is using it to sneak in restrictive internet rules, like banning VPNs, but really there's just a clause in there that makes it illegal to use a VPN to access and use TikTok, so both of their arguments are null. Pretty much the core of it all comes down to a good percentage of the population being brain-slaved to TikTok.
When talking about the doom scrolling, it's 100% a national security risk. A day or two of scrolling TikTok can radicalize someone on the right leaning or left leaning side, to the absolute extremes of their views, I've seen it happen, the algorithms detect which political side you're on and start recommending you more and more extreme opinions on that side of the political spectrum. Not only that, but theres also a gigantic risk for predation on TikTok, there's been multiple scandals with pedophiles getting a large audience on TikTok then using it to manipulate children into giving them favours, but it also shoves videos of underage girls doing provocative dances directly down your throat. That was the entire purpose of it in the start, it used to be called musical.ly before it was bought and turned into TikTok, the entire point was just doing dances on camera. It also fries your brain, a good percentage of the youth have a lower form of "ADD" (Attention Deficit Disorder) because of how badly it fries your attention span. I could barely even read a book without getting bored and going to use TikTok back when I used it heavily, it's doing the same thing as tons of drugs do, releasing a little bit of dopamine, making you scroll a few times, then giving you the dopamine again. It's almost like a less expensive form of gambling, in essence. And it's getting worse. their algorithms are so advanced it can calculate exactly what you like and promote 100 videos in a row of that exact thing, I've seen people get actual withdrawal symptoms from ceasing using TikTok. It should 100% be banned, not just for national security, but also for the security of sanity
^^^Shack. I feel this way about most social media. I have been called names for saying so, but I think it’s a lot worse for our health than we realize.
Years ago I saw a talk given by Bran Ferran to the NRO. Bran was the lead tech dude for Disney, but sat on a group advising the NRO. One thing he said (and his talk was full of nuggets) was that the internet was the first true engine of tech innovation that wasn’t war-related in history.
He just didn’t come out and call it porn.
Cal Newport's Digital Minimalism is a good read and addresses this.
Except AW…of course…where we are quick to dismiss CHYCAPS and other “others.”
Interesting, but I think he was being self-serving. My understanding is that the internet was born from ARPANET and the Defense Communication Agency’s inability to control early access (this is back in the late 1970’s). Thus led to the creation of MILNET and the privatization of the “internet” around 1995. I my be approaching this thesis from the wrong direction, but I assure you neither me or Al Gore invented it although we probably, “accidentally,” saw some porn on said internet.Years ago I saw a talk given by Bran Ferran to the NRO. Bran was the lead tech dude for Disney, but sat on a group advising the NRO. One thing he said (and his talk was full of nuggets) was that the internet was the first true engine of tech innovation that wasn’t war-related in history.
He just didn’t come out and call it porn.
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