But on a serious note, the #TikTokBan will literally make many thousand people lose their livelihoods. Not that it is important or anything right?
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Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 14-Mar-2024 19:27:03 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
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Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 14-Mar-2024 19:33:18 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
@panda People who work for TikTok, content creators etc. If they are smart they would habe diversified. Unfortunately not all do.
Have a big feeling that TikTok would rather just pack up and leave than sell, so many jobs will be on the line. Agencies will also lose major contracts. A domino effect. -
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Panda (panda@freiburg.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Mar-2024 19:33:20 JST Panda
@liztai how is that? How can you earn your livelihood through it?
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Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 14-Mar-2024 19:37:15 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
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veer66 (veer66@mstdn.in.th)'s status on Thursday, 14-Mar-2024 19:37:17 JST veer66
@panda TikTok is e-commerce platform here. 😅
@liztai Who bans TikTok? Are they practicing meditation?
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Jenxi Seow (jenxi@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Mar-2024 19:44:10 JST Jenxi Seow
There are people making millions through it. They earn a livelihood not just for themselves but for their whole teams or companies.
These 2020 articles turned up in a quick search:
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Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 14-Mar-2024 19:44:10 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
@jenxi Feel sad for them but hopefully they can transition to a new platform. Thing is I think big influencers should have no problems but the small ones will suffer. @panda
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Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 06:14:46 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
@philip Problem is this was done not for data privacy reasons but is a move to please the China hawks. If it is indeed for privacy reasons, the same should be done to FB and X etc. Also the demand and forceful move to grab TikTok the co will ensure a big economic impact. It will cause other countries to think twice before investing in the US just because it is foreign owned.
This is a bad move also for the land of free speech - it shows that the US is no longer that.
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Philip Mallegol-Hansen (philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 06:14:47 JST Philip Mallegol-Hansen
@liztai I’m definitely not arguing that a ban is the right move. But simultaneously: Job loss cannot itself be a reason not to do something.
If we stop mining coal, miners might be out of a job. But the preservation of those jobs is not worth the continued destruction of the climate.
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Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 15-Mar-2024 06:15:00 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾
@philip Mind you I dont even have a Tiktok acc and the app was used to incite violence in my country. But this whole thing is not a great move, geopolitically.
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