I avoid Tik Tok because I hate centralized big tech surveillance capitalism companies and already have enough pangs of guilt about not being able to fully unplug from Facebook (and until this year Twitter). However we've known they have been as or more sketchy with their practices than Facebook for some time. The magnitude of how much worse they have been comes to light with each passing day. If I were you I would never install their app (or any of these companies' apps) on your device. I wouldn't create an account. At this point I wouldn't even navigate to links to videos someone shares with you. #tiktok #SurveillanceCapitalism #DeleteSurveillanceCapitalism #DeleteBigTech #DeleteTikTok https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/12/22/tiktok-tracks-forbes-journalists-bytedance/?sh=63ef0f957da5

EXCLUSIVE: TikTok Spied On Forbes Journalists

ByteDance confirmed it used TikTok to monitor journalists’ physical location using their IP addresses, as first reported by Forbes in October.

...and related to my prior post by the end of this year you will have anti-democracy people making the decisions on this stuff on all major social media platforms: Meta/Facebook (see Kaplan, Clegg, Andreesen, Thiel), Twitter (Musk and his band of alt-right tech bro assholes including Thiel again), Tik Tok (god knows what nefarious shit they have planned in collusion with the Chinese government), and then the willful ignorance of others like YouTube who let this shit run wild too. Secondary media is no better sadly, just check out the amount of insanity on Rumble, PeerTube, etc. along with the special built right wing social media systems. The anti-democracy movement is so thoroughly flooding the zone it is inescapable at this point. Most of the world are acting like lambs being led to the slaughter. Disheartening. Infuriating #DeleteFacebook #DeleteTwitter #DeleteTikTok #DeleteBigTech