Hawaii residents' income threatened by loss of Tic-Tok

[Punatang]

Hawaii comedienne Delores Cachola-Tapia shares her thoughts:

[MyManao]

I hope all algorithm driven social media gets banned.

[Punatang]

I hope all algorithm driven social media gets banned.

An understandable sentiment. All forms of moderation always seem to end up being perverted in the end. It would be so refreshing to converse organically.  

But, good news for Hawaii residents like Delores Cachola-Tapia.  Tic-Tok service is being restored in Hawaii as we post. 

   

[HiloJulie]

"But, good news for Hawaii residents like Delores Cachola-Tapia.  Tic-Tok service is being restored in Hawaii as we post."

Well, that's great news!

Now she can go back to exciting and profitable content like this:

A TikTok creator said she inadvertently touted a scam before hackers told her fans she was kidnapped

[randomq]

We have to make sure the *right people* make money off of our daughters whoring themselves out on the Internet.

Seriously though, there are probably a thousand apps on the app stores today that can track soldiers coming and going to Hickam, classify their associations, and then note when groups of them leave Hawaii for various locations in the Pacific where their missions could be undermined or they could be attacked. And some subset may even have 3D face mapping, recording of conversations, interest classification (aka blackmail fodder) or other things TikTok has. But the biggest issue is the popularity of TikTok, which allows an adversary to correlate the relationships between large numbers of Hawaii soldiers, government agency workers, or citizens. Kinda like all of our mobile phone operators being hacked recently by China and all the CDRs (call data records) being stolen, creating a social map of nearly the whole country, Hawaii and Guam included.

Once things get to scale they become exponentially more vulnerable and dangerous.

[TomK]

The only Tic-Tok videos I've watched are when someone else on another site points to one that shows extreme idiocy. I think it's a site for idiots, but I don't understand why it should be banned. I thought the US was all about free speech. We have national news media who are at the same intellectual level as the worst Tic-Tok users, but they don't get banned, nor should they.

As for Hawaii, well, thanks to the name-dropping, I found Delores Cachola-Tapia's five tips for watching sunrises in Hawaii. I won't post the link; anyone who wants to can find it, but it does include useful information that the sun rises in the East, so if you want to watch a sunrise, head to the coast on the East.

[leilanidude]

but I don't understand why it should be banned. I thought the US was all about free speech.

The app not only tracks locations. It has permissions to your camera, microphone, location, device storage, IP address, wifi information, search history, typing patterns, what the user is viewing and many more. All this data is collected and stored on servers in China. It has even been proven that it has bypassed some Android security features.

Chinese laws demand China-based companies provide their data to the Chinese government and intelligence agencies.

In essence, it is spyware.

[TomK]

but I don't understand why it should be banned. I thought the US was all about free speech.

The app not only tracks locations. It has permissions to your camera, microphone, location, device storage, IP address, wifi information, search history, typing patterns, what the user is viewing and many more. All this data is collected and stored on servers in China. It has even been proven that it has bypassed some Android security features.

Chinese laws demand China-based companies provide their data to the Chinese government and intelligence agencies.

In essence, it is spyware.

Just like Microsoft and Apple. You are aware that the latest Windows 11 update includes spyware, right?

For example, https://youtu.be/HMi6UaO1In4?si=fPfroa5CxPzsfWPH

Further, "It has even been proven that it has bypassed some Android security features."

I hate to ask this because I suspect most here know my thoughts about proof, but since you want to go down that path, prove what you claim. Finally, we have this claim:

"Chinese laws demand China-based companies provide their data to the Chinese government and intelligence agencies."

I know nothing about Chinese laws, but you must know about them, given your claim. I give them as much weight as your knowledge of the laws of physics. Please go ahead and state their laws. Maybe you'll surprise me. Consider this a chance to show you're not an eejit.

[randomq]

Poor TomK can't look up unfamiliar words or do a Google search, but I'm here to help:

https://www.androidcentral.com/tiktok-wa...king-users

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersecur...0the%20law.

"Article 28 compels vaguely defined "network operators", (interpreted to include: social media platforms, application creators and other technology companies), to cooperate with public security organs such as the Ministry of Public Security and hand over information when requested.

Article 28: Network operators shall provide technical support and assistance to public security organs and national security organs that are safeguarding national security and investigating criminal activities in accordance with the law."

[HiloJulie]

In as much as I can understand the concern TikToK poses with the allegation of it being "spyware" as well as its actual owner(s) and as such, also understand the bill that congress passed and was signed into law.

What escapes me, as it should to any sane person, is why then, was it unbanned?

Well, we know the reasons, but...