Seems to me it’s only guilty of the same data scraping for marketing purposes that Meta is… maybe even less so as I always found TikToks advertising less gross than Instagrams.
Both suck but TikTok is slightly less suck.
Is it really a security thing or is it a “We are getting pressure from US companies to remove competition” thing?
Understood. Thank you for the added context. I was not familiar with the “years of lead” phrase. I agree. It does not take a lot of effort to neutralize opposition. You reminded me of the Steve Bannon quote to “…flood the zone [the media] with shit.” Attention algorithms have only accelerated it. It has made it very difficult for Americans to focus on a core issue and organize around it. A new insane thing is pushed out before the previous one can be digested.