The arrangement, outlined by the White House official in a statement Monday, seeks to ensure that the American buyers control TikTok’s recommendation software in the US following a divestiture by its Chinese parent, ByteDance Ltd. Owners of the US-based TikTok would lease a copy of the algorithm from ByteDance that Oracle would then retrain “from the ground up,” according to the official. Data from US users would be stored in a secure cloud managed by Oracle with controls established to keep out foreign adversaries, including China, the official said.
  • kennedy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6 months

    Oracle will operate in partnership with the US government on everything from algorithm retraining to application development and source code review, the White House official said. It wasn’t immediately clear what role the government might have in oversight of the app, its algorithm and user data.

    every article just glosses over the fact a major platform that people use to get/share information (with also a lot of personal data collected) is about to be controlled by the US government and a few of the president’s friends. No one is talking about how bad this will be its just "china bad’.

    I only had an account to watch people livestreams concerts, protests, etc… Imagine the amount of suppression and propaganda if something like the L.A riots/free palestine movement happen again but the government controls what you see.

    • panda_abyss@lemmy.caEnglish
      6 months

      There are no protests in LA, and we have always been at war with Eastasia.

      • chillpanzee@lemmy.mlEnglish
        6 months

        It’s just Dodger’s fans [pissed|happy] about the big [win|loss].

    • Teal@piefed.zipEnglish
      6 months

      I agree and even though users should be concerned I think a large amount of people using that platform already don’t care where their data goes, how it’s used or what harmful algorithms can do to a person.

      • kennedy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        6 months

        yeah which is sad really, the mainstream has unfortunately given up about it. The few of us who do are screaming into a void, it would take something apocalyptic. Thought the cambridge analytical thing and the election would make people see but money talks i guess.

  • Jaysyn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6 months

    Tiktok will be a fascist propaganda mill & needs to go the way of MySpace.

    Use Loops instead.

  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6 months

    Oracle will be handling TikTok’s algorithm? Okay, so TikTok’s back-end workflow/decisioning engine will rapidly bloat up and will need to be completely replaced every two years. Got it.

    • ms.lane@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6 months

      Probably why they went for the contract. That’s some big money headed Larry’s way.

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6 months

    I can’t believe oracle is still such a behemoth. I thought they dissappeared in the 2010s, but they’ve been steaming ahead doing evil things with shit tons of money this whole time.

    • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6 months

      It’s the same reason IBM still exists. Massive multinational / government contracts keep them alive and healthy.

      • chillpanzee@lemmy.mlEnglish
        6 months

        And Microsoft. Ain’t nobody buying SharePoint because it’s good.

        • pressanykeynow@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6 months

          Wasn’t Microsoft in a bad state during Balmer and it took Nadella to change focus from Microsoft developed products to cloud and selling Linux that saved it?

    • NotKyloRen@lemmy.zipEnglish
      6 months

      Ding ding ding. Anyone who’s been paying attention since the beginning should know this.

    • GodlessCommie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6 months

      That’s already started after they installed that IDF cunt as hate speech manager. Nearly everyone of my proPalestinian /anti Israel TTs have been muted as ‘unauthorized sound.’

  • gi1242@lemmy.worlddeleted by creatorEnglish
    6 months

    somehow I trust bytwdance a lot more than trump backed companies…

    moot point though, cause I’m never on tiktok

    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6 months

      This will be illegal in the future, and dangerous not to have received the latest cultural infections.
      The police will have ways to know if you have not performed your memetic inoculation
      By flashing certain patterns at you and observing your reaction with an AI facial expression analyzer
      They will know you have not upheld your democractic duty to remain an informed citizen
      You will be sanctionned for you dereliction of duty
      and subjected to a memetic reification inoculation
      which is a kick and painless procedure where you are simply made to look at a screen for a certain period of time while restrained

  • Kami@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6 months

    That’s crazy, now instead of staying the fuck away from a shitty Chinese social media I’ll stay the fuck away from a shitty US social media.

  • Beej Jorgensen@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    6 months

    It’s not desirable to have a foreign government in control of TikTok. But it’s far, far less desirable to have your own government in control of TikTok.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6 months

    Nice. Another racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic anti-American platform.

  • Korkki@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6 months

    So does this affect only US Tiktok users or is it the whole global Tiktok outside of China that will be sucked up by US?

  • Kokesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6 months

    Blocked that shit on our household devices (and all our visitors and guest’s devices).

  • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6 months

    Great! What could go wrong with ubiquous policing with AI group controling a media platform so powerful congress called it a weapons platform…