• RandoCalrandian@kbin.social
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              1 year ago

              As clever as you think you’re being, it is an important difference.

              Mostly because in the US you can choose not to use it, in china choosing not to use it affects your social credit score, and whether you can buy a house or ride the bus.

              Slight difference in potential consequences for benign behavior.

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                1 year ago

                in china choosing not to use it affects your social credit score, and whether you can buy a house or ride the bus.

                Do you have any source that says that using TikTok is mandatory in China, or that not using it does what you’re asserting?

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                  1 year ago

                  The social credit score is mandatory, and what you watch on it is absolutely used to adjust your credit score.

                  So no, i don’t have a direct source that says “you must use this app or your credit score goes down”, i have a reasonable informed idea that it probably does, based on china’s current treatment of it’s citizens.

                  Why, do you happen to a single or any even tangentially related source pretending it doesn’t?

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        1 year ago

        Almost as if… because there weren’t consequences the first time they blatantly lied to people’s faces… they just continued to do so, repeatedly.

        If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, right?