Cracks coming China's way?
TikTok is back under fire, this morning, but not from the usual peeved actors (MAHA moms). As you have certainly followed, the social media giant has been under threat of getting banned in the United States of America over what have been described as “national security concerns” for the better part of the 2020s. TikTok, which is owned by Chinese parent company ByteDance was initialy prohibited by the Navy, back in 2019, after it was labeled a risk. Donald J. Trump doubled the pressure during his first term in office, declaring he would shut TikTok all the way down, after becoming frustrated by pro-Joe Biden li’l dancing vids.
Biden, taking over for Trump, turned down the heat and rolled back three Trump executive orders seeking to curtail TikTok but later forgot why. Trump, re-taking office, changed his tune after becoming amused by pro-Donald Trump li’l dancing vids and declared he had reached a deal with China to make it great again.
There have been some snags there. For example, and according to Senator Ed Markey, “Throughout this process, Beijing has never confirmed that it has agreed to a TikTok deal. Given the number of times (the Trump) Administration has falsely announced a TikTok deal, Americans would be forgiven for thinking that they stumbled into the movie Groundhog Day.”
Well, TikTok has a bigger worry, this morning, than the might of the U.S. government. Namely, very large and angry Hawaiians.
TikTok getting cracked?
In a stunning overnight move, the state of Hawaii has sued TikTok’s ByteDance over the allegation that it was created, specifically, to rot keiki brains. Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez filed a 105-page complaint with the first circuit court.
“TikTok has long known about the mental health risks its platform poses, particularly on our children and young adults. At the heart of this lawsuit is a deep concern for the safety and well-being of our community. We must stand up for our families and ensure that the necessary reforms are put in place to protect our communities from exploitation,” she declared.
Hawaii’s Governor Josh Green added TikTok entire design creates an environment were “addiction and anxiety thrive.”
“As leaders, it’s our responsibility to protect our youth from platforms that prioritize profit over their health,” he continued. “This lawsuit is a crucial step in holding TikTok accountable for the harm it’s causing and ensuring that our children can safely navigate the digital world.”
So, if you were a TikTok executive, would you be more scared of Washington D.C. or Honolulu?
Honolulu every day all day, for me.
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Hawaii Government are a bunch of corrupt tools.
the ads on Beach Grit are way more cringe than Tik Tok.
Algo’s, blame the mirror
do you think that by reading Beach Grit my algorithm is set to Gay Sex Toys, Trans Fashion, Ballet, Bicycles, Red Bikinis, Scottish Outdoor Adventures and Marriage Counseling ads?
Yes
Hopefully…
I get mostly hot AI women who want to fuck seniors
Nice thought, wife disagrees
Never clicked one yet they proliferate. Now I’m getting custom bourbon bottles and cute animal face socks. I rarely wear socks and i only drink beer.
“hot AI women who want to fuck seniors”.
i get this one too, but it always says limited time offer (i guess that’s a senior thing) and is accompanied by an erectile disfunction ad……
the limited time offer could have to do with ED.
shoulder shrug IDK emoji
and fuck you for mentioning animal face socks. now they’re all over my algorithm.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 that’s right on the mark
That Dailymotion video that autoplays in the Owen real estate story can eat a bag of dicks.
It’s hard sometimes to figure out which broad generalization is the truth.
An app designed for arseholes to film and share themselves dancing (often on dead gazaan kids) can rot your brain?
The irony is not lost….
Well done Hawaii
I don’t personally have the app, although i do love to film myself dancing and sharing with the missus.
the Exquisite Mrs. Camper however, does have the app and enjoys a lot of the content, which is curated for her by her algorithm. there are actually some cool things on it. food recipes, health and skin care, tutorials and super funny dog videos.
as far as the kiddos go, my older boy uses it to promote his business….but my lil’ guy doesn’t even have a phone, and when he gets one it will be for calls and texts only.
he does have an iPad, but we keep it in our room when he’s not using it and monitor it’s usage when he uses it.
at some point it’s up to the parents to be responsible for their kids.
fuck the nanny state.
hell will freeze over before I film myself dancing and my gen X brain went on the fritz when I tried to scroll the app, so I instantly deleted it …
however, Ms Rocks is likewise bemused by the app and peruses it in the evenings to give her brain a break from running the universe.
just kidding abut the dancing…..but sounds like Hot Rocks and Mrs. “I’ll help you pitch a tent” Camper have a lot in common.
Gawd bless her
I am actually stoked the government down here is banning groms from having social media and cant think of a single negative. I don’t have fuckbook or gayagram or any of that shit cuz it just seems fucked.
Positives include groms getting out and enjoying this wonderful country rather than sitting indoors speaking to cunts they don’t even know and those dirty pedo wankers having less chance of grooming them online, just seems like a win win to me. Have heard horror stories of groms getting bullied online by fuckwits they don’t even know so it seems sensible to me for them to wait till they have the life skills to deal with it. Fuck me you seppo wankers won’t even let them have a beer till they’re 21 but let them drive at 15 and own and shoot guns at 18, weird cunts haha
very weird cunts
Haha. As long as every mentally retarded seppo cunt can own as many firearms as their budget allows they somehow feel free. Always makes me chuckle and think thank fuck I was born in Straya
I consider it a fetish
Insecure with no leverage appreciates a tool that feigns either fear.
You should thank fuck that you surf better waves, otherwise your colony copies our every fault. Submissive even. Does that challenge your “nationalism”. Seppo cunts can fuck you and your govie lubes.
You aussies are so triggered by guns it’s almost laughable.
kids having to do live shooter drills seems a bit off to us.
It’s a societal problem.
Plenty of guns where I live, and even more dangerous people, yet no kid gets shot, up until the point they get to college and start protesting against corruption and impunity.
I imagine you have already seen it but this part one explains how we all feel pretty clearly haha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rR9IaXH1M0
AAh come on mate don’t dodge out on me, It’s late and I can’t get to sleep because I almost shat my pants in bed.
I got plenty of talking points for ya
Yeah nah, no engagey?
thought I was done but more poop. Intestines really hating the meat and grease. Time to go veggie.
Ah well when you are ready I’ll be here, ready to engage with talking points and examples that are purely my own, not influenced by agenda peddlers on YouTube or any Think Tank.
I’ll leave you with one of my favorite photos I snapped while driving through the reddest of the red states in the country. In this photo you can bet your ass that every single person is armed, yet there was nothing but mutual respect and civility.
The world is a great place, full of ups and downs and a full spectrum of thoughts and ideals. The more you get to explore it, the less you hold on to absolutes and stereotypes. Not that there aren’t those that fit and drive those stereotypes, but shit simply is not black and white. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Sorry to duck out onya mate but I took a rather attractive Brazzo lady out for dinner and drinks last night and enjoyed a wonderful evening haha
I’m old so we had to do nuclear bomb drills when i was a kid……but then again, when i grew up, we were raised knowing how to shoot guns.
Last good drill was when the state sent out some exciting text messages.
Funny part about those drills is they never taught you how to bend over and kiss your ass goodbye.
oh my gosh. that was insane.
Ige was stupid and corrupt. that’s hawaii.gov
the incredible Mrs. Camper got the text. I was asleep, so she went in and got our 5yr. old and put him in bed with us. she didn’t wake any of us and didn’t freak out, she just laid there hugging us, praying for us and waiting for the end.
funniest thing is the stupid governor that took 15 minutes to declare the alert false….got re-elected, and now his stooge “Covid Furor” is the governor. you can’t make this shit up.
suicide by stupidity.
I had just made the move to new pastures, and was pretty broken up about it, but hearing about the whole shitshow only reinforced my conviction that leaving was for the best.
You’re not alone.
Any seppo who loves guns should take the time out to watch the amazing Strayan Jim Jeffries here just completely fucking destroy any of their arguments. It’s not just Strayans who are “triggered” by Seppos love of guns its the entire western world mate. How many school or mass shootings does it take to make yous all realise the whole concept is completely fucked up? Please just watch this clip, cuz its funny as fuck and get back to me haha
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=a9UFyNy-rw4
You see case in point🤣
Nah no need to watch manipulated BS where people supposedly “destroy” arguments, usually laid out by people with marginal thinking skills. Fun fact mate, where I live guns are highly illegal, and I even had a colorful debate about that in a sharticle put up recently. Yet 100% of the people getting shot in the head are getting done so by guns.
You can go on sucking up the Charlie Kirk style propaganda, but if you ever do get a chance to travel around our great nation you will find that propaganda to be far removed from reality.
The US uses guns. Aussies use machetes.
I have a machete, I drive around with it in my ute, i know it can kill someone but use it for its intended purpose.
Are aussies not going to be triggered by machetes because the nanny state has asked them to be handed in?
if cunts want to hurt/kill cunts, cunts will be cunts
in hawaii we mount our machetes on our guns like bayonets.
pretty tough mounting it on a Glock, though.
I agree with you in almost every point except the guns. Been shooting guns and archery since i was 10 so, it’s embedded in my DNA.
But yeah, i actually don’t have a problem with banning social media for da youts. My point was simply, we don’t need the government to take care of our kids….but because so many parents don’t understand what it is to be a responsible parent, I’m okay with banning it.
I just know that if the Hawaii Gov is involved it will always lead to a payoff.
My oldest boy hates social media, my #2 uses it for his business, my LG is a total athlete and would rather surf and play baseball than be on his iPad.
Attaboy
Da TikTok brah
I can’t really explain why I feel this way but it seems like the internet prematurely ages children because it robs their lives of any and all mystery.
I’m also starting to think that information exchange historically has been crucial for building interpersonal relationships. Exchanging tips like “check this spot when the swell is short period” is an expression of mutual trust. Now you can just go read the internet.
Have you seen that new Alexa commercial with Pete Davidson? Cringy AF
Him coming back around the corner to tell Alexa “I like you too” makes my blood boil.
Man I’m glad I grew up when I did.
+1
North Shore classic snap. Lots of Haole surfers eh Vince. But we take em down. Maybe.
We blow dem away brah
Leonard Drago and Eddie playing themselves. Gerry as the heavy a bit of a reach.
Hawaii’s Governor Josh Green added…
“As leaders, it’s our responsibility to protect our youth from platforms that prioritize profit over their health,”…
Is he talking about all the sugar, fat and chemicals packed into cheap processed ‘food’, and the subsequent obesity epidemic, with its associated health problems ?
Josh “just slide the envelope under the door” Green
Lemme guess, democrat?
We are going to look back on all of this and realize how bad of an experiment social media is…but in the meantime girls keep doing squats in yoga pants!
Exactly.
Home improvement diy yoga pants.
Yoga pants are known as mumble pants round here cuz you can see the lips moving but can’t hear what they’re saying
Fucking love that. Wait until the morning when I try that out Mrs. Puss.
Haha onyas mate. One of the advantages of being surrounded all day by bogan, Strayan tradies is I hear some of the funniest shit you could ever imagine. I first heard that from a mate who is a massive islander concreter and I almost pissed myself. He’s the same cunt who told me that a bum hole was actually a rusty sheriffs badge. His offsider who’s fucking hilarious is known by everyone as shit as, thats literally the name he uses to introduce himself with hahahahaha. I love Straya cuz its good to know there are still some proper funny un PC cunts getting round haha
Wild idea. Don’t give them fucking phones.
Likewise boomers. Techno illiterate pensioners getting sucked down conspiracy theory wormholes online is an ever bigger threat to social cohesion
Conspiracy theories? So now you are telling me Gabe and Neymar never even kissed? wtf?
Always cutting edge investigations from you
Social mediums have been developed to influence the users, from the engineering stages
Have some Boomers fallen prey to the smart phone? For sure, but in youth the usage is ubiquitous and intentional. And a mechanism to control them through social inclusion.
There were and always be intellectually lazy humans looking for ease.
Just went to grocery store, morons are sitting in their cars in designated spots closest to the front door waiting for someone to deliver and load their groceries for them. What are they doing while they wait, you guess?
I want to pick out my own ribeye and bananas
And i walk down the street to check surf conditions
I walk into the fast food store to pick up my own poison, not waiting for some phone degenerate to deliver my “mc meal”…
Once you pacify humanity with convenience and ease, relieve them of curiosity, you’ve neutered their ability to question. Who benefits?
So Wall-E was right all along? Disney is our prophet?!?
Yep.
Ole Walt was a noble and misunderstood fella with true Illumination, who understood that his good intentions would be denigrated by the lesser minds who assumed control after him.
are “social mediums” those people that show up at dinner parties and ask to read your palm?
Palm reading is grandpa’s stuff.
Nowadays Social Mediums use biometrics.
Yeah way better to go down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole offline.
After all every conspiracy nut knows they are watching you through the phone.
Always watching you…..
Just because your paranoid doesnt mean they aren’t watching you
Well at least the Boomers bailed out all the stranded Africans that used to send me emails asking for money because I don’t get those anymore.
Not just boomers. Plenty of Gen X lost down in the wild magical thinking nonsense.
Was listening to a bunch of crazy stuff emerging from friends’ mouths at the beach this morning. Really hard to bite my lip.