A few years ago I switched the mail provider for the company I work for from a small MSP provider over to Google Workspace. The reason is my boss’ inbox had an average of 5k+ of spam daily. He even had to abandon one of his email addresses at one point. After switching over to Google that number went to a more manageable few dozen daily.
It’s absolutely a massive problem.
If you get 100 spam emails a day, then without those protections that have been put into place that number would be in the 100s of thousands at best.
Ukrainian devs are top notch, to be fair. Outsourcing to there is not an issue.
The last we ever saw of Luke Skywalker was in Mandolarian. We know nothing of Luke’s story after that.
In Mark Hamill’s own words “that’s not Luke Skywalker”
it’s only fair that he at least gets a chance to redeem his failure.
What failure?
They’re a bunch of Windows power-user clowns cosplaying as tech experts.
Hang on. Is Musk the YouTube user NextGenHacker101?
I’m not falling for any US propaganda. Americans seem to think people outside the US see American news as trustworthy. When the reality is that we generally see it as biased at best and ludicrous the rest of the time.
Well that was easy to find. Also, your blurb about who has shares in ByteDance is practically lifted straight from TikTok’s FAQ page. Not exactly an unbiased source.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bytedance
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bytedance
“Chinese owned” isn’t the same as “CCP Owned”.
Are you really trying to contend that ByteDance, the owners/developers of TikTok, are not a Chinese based company?
I see more pro China anti American content in one day on Lemmy than I have in my entire existence on TikTok and RedNote combined.
I don’t have a reason to doubt this, although I don’t see this (any I’ve never used TikTok). Lemmy being an open platform means that it’s rife for propagandists to spread their views. No one said pro-CCP and anti-American content was exclusive to TikTok or RedNote. But Lemmy is far more neutral than most other platforms, which means both pro and anti anything content has an equal chance. It just comes down to the userbase.
And with that openness comes the possibility for people employed to promote pro-CCP content also.
You are running off imagination, assumptions and vibes.
You dropped a comma there.
But no, I’m not running off of imagination or assumptions.
Otherwise, without that info, you just stay in a bubble - which was precisely the intention of the ban.
Maybe this is an American-centric thing, but then the rest of the world does see the US as a strange place with strange ideas
The funny thing though, is that China is an even bigger bubble with thicker walls.
TikTok is a Chinese owned product, it’s developed by people who live in China, and the Chinese government has a direct influence on the content and how it’s presented to users. This isn’t hearsay or an opinion. It’s a fact.
Another fact, that people seem to always gloss over or ignore, is that TikTok isn’t even allowed in the country that develops it. They have their own internal version called Douyin, which is the same as TikTok, and people outside of China aren’t allowed to use it.
If China had one platform for everyone, this discussion wouldn’t even be happening.
We see the problem with FOX viewers
Only a subset of Americans see Fox as trustworthy, and everyone outside the US (myself included) sees Fox as pure propaganda.
people using TikTok for news (myself included), there’s actually strong media literacy because they’re learning about what deceit looks like.
This hurts my soul so much. I think this just says a lot more about American education than anything else.
I think we’re already seeing how…
I’m not American
The goal wasn’t to stop the communist Chinese government, but ensure that Americans maintain a stranglehold over these vices so that they can benefit from them.
Both. It can be both. And the influence by the CCP is absolutely real.
You mean a desktop application? If so you can use the web version, or even better, use Ferdium. It lets you connect to various messaging services and integrates them like a native desktop app.