garygoblins
garygoblins t1_je696q8 wrote
Reply to comment by TeaKingMac in US hands China easy PR win with TikTok show by HorrorCharacter5127
I don't know if you've ever used TikTok, but 85% or the stuff that isn't thirst traps/onlyfans promotion is straight up misinformation. Even if it isn't Chinese instigated, TikTok is by far the scariest platform I've ever seen (worse than Facebook imo)
garygoblins t1_je513f0 wrote
Reply to comment by cambeiu in US hands China easy PR win with TikTok show by HorrorCharacter5127
garygoblins t1_je4zxv1 wrote
Reply to comment by cambeiu in US hands China easy PR win with TikTok show by HorrorCharacter5127
sigh. You can still be trading with someone and they can still be your enemy. Just because we're not at war with them, doesn't mean they aren't hostile.
garygoblins t1_je4zd99 wrote
Reply to comment by Reasonable_Ticket_84 in US hands China easy PR win with TikTok show by HorrorCharacter5127
Fox news is terrible and should go away, but that's an entirely different legal problem. That would be banning free speech (the government can't restrict citizens speech). The key difference is that it's a hostile foreign entity vs a hostile domestic entity. You can't treat them the same.
garygoblins t1_je4ykcp wrote
Reply to comment by koolaidisthestuff in US hands China easy PR win with TikTok show by HorrorCharacter5127
How are people not getting that they don't give a fuck about privacy. The entire crux of the issue is the Chinese government having direct access to influence and push propaganda to 150 million Americans (as well as potentially backdoor the app and compromise devices if they chose to in the future).
garygoblins t1_j8wf46e wrote
Reply to comment by RockAndStone69 in Google CEO Sundar Pichai asks employees to put two to four hours into helping to improve and 'dogfood' its Bard chatbot by tester989chromeos
Bard (LaMDA) has existed since 2019. It's just not been released publicly...
garygoblins t1_j4r4udk wrote
Reply to comment by Cyber-Cafe in ChatGPT won't kill Google, it will help it. Generative AI's biggest impact will be on office apps, not search engines. by cartoonzi
Eh, Google productivity suite is much more modern. Office has so much legacy bullshit that it's super slow. I'm not saying excel isn't still the defacto, but pretty much every other office tool is inferior. That doesn't touch on the shit show that is teams. Who the fuck thinks it's a good idea to build a communication tool on SharePoint?
garygoblins t1_iselz0y wrote
Reply to comment by slayer828 in [OC] Google IPO vs Now - breaking down revenue and profit sources by giteam
While I agree corporations don't pay quite enough, people actually don't pay more than this. The vast majority pay a much lower effective tax rate.
"The Tax Foundation derives an average tax rate of 14.6% for the top 50% of taxpayers, just 3.4% for the bottom 50%, and an average of 13.3% overall."
garygoblins t1_je7g7c5 wrote
Reply to comment by SirAidandRinglocks in US hands China easy PR win with TikTok show by HorrorCharacter5127
The Chinese government is absolutely scarier than U.S. companies. We're not talking about the U.S government.
Did the U.S put Uyghur Muslims into concentration camps?
Did the U.S. murder student protesters and claim it didn't happen to this day?
Did the U.S invade and subjugate the Tibetan people?