TikTok To Shed Hundreds of India Workers After National Security Ban (ft.com) 24
TikTok has announced that it will lay off hundreds of workers in India, [Editor's note: the link may be paywalled; alternative source] seven months after the Chinese-owned video app was banned from what was once its biggest international market on national security grounds. From a report: The company, whose parent is Chinese tech group ByteDance, said in a statement on Wednesday that it would reduce its current headcount of 2,000 after its efforts to restore the app in India failed. "We have not been given a clear direction on how and when our apps could be reinstated," said TikTok. TikTok and other Chinese apps have been banned since June following a rise in tensions between New Delhi and Beijing.
Re: No one cares. India made a great decision. (Score:1)
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I hope they will also get rid of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Telegram, Google services etc. Then the true Indian splinternet will hatch.
Curious (Score:3)
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I think it's fair to say that rising tensions on boarder disputes between India and China and nationalism play a pretty big part in the politics behinds these decisions.
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I think it's fair to say that rising tensions on boarder disputes between India and China and nationalism play a pretty big part in the politics behinds these decisions.
It's truly amazing what political reactions are provoked between two countries, over TikTok.
21st Century Warfare; Rise of the Attention Whores
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Saying it is "over TikTok" is rather hyperbolic. I think TikTok is a casualty of these tensions and not the cause.
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Saying it is "over TikTok" is rather hyperbolic. I think TikTok is a casualty of these tensions and not the cause.
You can stop assuming that leaders are any less narcissistic than their constituency now.
They likely got elected, on narcissism. After all, this is the 21st Century.
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They likely got elected, on narcissism.
Power-fantasy wish fulfillment plays a big part in fascism. When a political leader with an odious personality that you'd think would disqualify them from politcs rises to power. They are often backed by a broad popular appeal of people with the same sort of narcissism and megalomania. In a very real way, your average knuckle-dragger lives vicariously through the knuckle-dragger they elected to power. If they can't be Prime Minister or President, they can do the next best thing and pick the guy that feels j
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If you have followed the news you have seen the "lovely" scene where the pr
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does TikTok do any data gathering that is different than Facebook or Google?
TikTok collects data from cut-and-paste clipboards and edits of unsent messages. This is something Facebook and Google don't do and is something most users are not aware of.
But more importantly, India banned the app after Chinese soldiers crossed the line-of-control and killed 20 Indian soldiers.
2020 China-India border skirmishes [wikipedia.org]
TikTok was hugely popular in India, way more popular than it is in China. So losing the Indian market was a big hit.
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does TikTok do any data gathering that is different than Facebook or Google?
TikTok collects data from cut-and-paste clipboards and edits of unsent messages.
A keylogger? Well, that's hard to get happy about!
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No LinkedIn did not ask you that during *signup*.
They asked for it when you agreed to let it grab all of your contacts in your e-mail to add to your profile. You have to be smart enough to tell the difference.
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No LinkedIn did not ask you that during *signup*.
They asked for it when you agreed to let it grab all of your contacts in your e-mail to add to your profile. You have to be smart enough to tell the difference.
Never got that far - I would be fired for violating my TOS, and you make a distinction without a difference.
But since you've gon all ocd on me, let's chat.
DEfine signup, and how that I wrote something so wrong that it triggered you. Is there a particular spot on the process where Linkedin states "Your signup is complete, now the next part"?.
I can assure you it all happened in one session. You need to spout off to Linkden, not me.
Now the next part. Where did I say that I gave them my email pass
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Yea lets be cute.
Signup is the creation of the base account you do not need to grant e-mail access during that point -- end of story.
Have a nice day.
Is this another episode of Code Wars (Score:1)
misread it (Score:2)
I read "TikTok To shred Hundreds of India Workers"
In a time before the modern Internet ... (Score:1)
You must have been fun at parties. Ranting in a continuous loop about off-topic crap and unable to even make rational points on the topic you are trying to cram down our throats.
If you don't like the Internet then leave. If you don't want to sign up for Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Gmail/Slashdot/etc then don't. You are absolutely free to have an e-mail only Internet experience. And I can even show you where to get dial-up internet on the cheap even in this day in age.
And nothing of value was lost (Score:2)