r/technology • u/MrKillaMidnight • Jan 19 '25

Social Media TikTok is down in the US

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/18/24346961/tiktok-shut-down-banned-in-the-us
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u/kgm2s-2 Jan 19 '25

I get the feeling you've not been paying attention. They moved the videos to Oracle to try and appease (or at least appear to appease) the US gov't earlier, but the gov't wasn't stupid. It's not the videos being hosted overseas that was the problem (or, well, not the only problem). The US gov't was worried about all the metadata and the algorithm that picked which videos to show.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '25 edited Jan 19 '25

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u/BillGoats Jan 19 '25

Why is it not okay to trust some companies more than others with my data?