TikTok’s Secret ‘Heating’ Button Can Make Anyone Go Viral
"TikTok and ByteDance employees regularly engage in 'heating,' a manual push that ensures specific videos 'achieve a certain number of video views,' according to six sources and documents reviewed by Forbes."
Another good reason not to TRUST these platforms, what else is going on in the background.
People will hopefully eventually realise what is going on with Mainstream social media, esp given what Andrew Tate has been up to, and has actually been allowed to do over the past few years.
I like the way the Tories are citing the internet safety bill as 'world leading', They are taking so long to implement this, that other countries have just go on and implemented their own, maybe based on this bill, but beaten us to it.
in my opinion what tate did is just a symptom of a sick society. i hate that this is again a problem solved by using more regulation and technology instead of fixing the problem at "the source" which is the minds of the population. maybe that chance has been gone for a few years though.
people are handed a "magic" device which can ruin lives. 3 year olds are using smartphones here and politicians want to combat grooming and child pornography by surveillance and censorship. maybe they should instead explain to parents why kids shouldn't have a smartphone at all in the first place. only that we'd have riots then, those devices are just the perfect pacifiers for kids.
i hate this technocratic approach, but the west is hell bent on it. ever more technology, never asking if the solution could be less technology.
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I fully agree with this, we need to change our attitude and relation with technology. I don't even have a mobile phone. I like going out and NOT being contacted, but I also work in a school so would not be able to have a mobile anyway.
Explaining to parents, who are addicted to their own phones, that their kids should not have one could be interesting, kids learn quite a lot from copying their parents, so given how some parents behave, there is no wonder kids are like chips of their blocks.
I also seems down to it is someone elses fault mentality if something goes wrong, child gets groomed in to sex, or sending / asking for nude pics. Lets blame everyone BUT the parent and child.
Perhaps it is also the don't say NO to a child mentality that is also causing problems, no is the difference between consent and rape, so a child who has never been told NO means NO will grow up thinking that if a girl says NO, they don't understand what that means. If people understand NO then perhaps when a girl is asked to send pictures she can actually say NO.
In fact there was a time if you tried that in person the girl would probably give you something big and hard between the legs, e.g a boot, or knee, which in that context would be exactly what you had asked for and deserved, if a girl did that now she would be up for assault.
A whole generation or two grew up not having been told NO, so they bring their kids up the same, oh kids have rights, we can't stop them as it stifles their freedom of expression rights or it is a misguided attempt to meet their needs.
I asked on here a while back if givem the current issue of how people sexualise others especially females, if this same attitude is prevalent within naturist communities, or in fact if judging how one looks is prevalent in those communities too. I an not a naturist but from doing some digging on the local naturist club site. I would guess not, people respect each other regardless of how they look, and you can't exactly hide much if naked, oh and people can be comfotable in their own bodies.
Not had an answer on the above yet.
The issue with smartphones is also that to interact with products companies create apps, even products aimed at kids have apps, toys have apps, restaurants have apps, sports teams etc you can't easily escape it. But that goes down to capitalism and making money at any cost.
To use a lot of services you need a smart phone and app, but there are apps to help teach kids money management, so they do have some positive use.
Makes me sort of sad to see pics of kids sitting in a row glued to their phones, rather than taking to each other, they are possibly messaging each other, my conclusion is it is THEIR choice, and just move on. As with here we made a choice to join and dump the old fashioned social media.
> I fully agree with this, we need to change our attitude and relation with technology. I don't even have a mobile phone. I like going out and NOT being contacted, but I also work in a school so would not be able to have a mobile anyway.
well, i have one with sailfish os. every time i have to deal with android of family members i'm ending as a nerve wreck because of all the notifications :)
> Explaining to parents, who are addicted to their own phones, that their kids should not have one could be interesting, kids learn quite a lot from copying their parents, so given how some parents behave, there is no wonder kids are like chips of their blocks.
yeah, but todays parents also never really learned to handle with negative emotions properly, hence the inclination to go for dopamine dispensers.
> I also seems down to it is someone elses fault mentality if something goes wrong, child gets groomed in to sex, or sending / asking for nude pics. Lets blame everyone BUT the parent and child.
well, it certainly isn't the childs fault.
> Perhaps it is also the don't say NO to a child mentality that is also causing problems, no is the difference between consent and rape, so a child who has never been told NO means NO will grow up thinking that if a girl says NO, they don't understand what that means. If people understand NO then perhaps when a girl is asked to send pictures she can actually say NO.
i think this is dangerously near to blaming the victim territory, but yes, children need to be thought these things properly.
> In fact there was a time if you tried that in person the girl would probably give you something big and hard between the legs, e.g a boot, or knee, which in that context would be exactly what you had asked for and deserved, if a girl did that now she would be up for assault.
the historic span when this would have happened is rather short though, maybe 60s-00?
> A whole generation or two grew up not having been told NO, so they bring their kids up the same, oh kids have rights, we can't stop them as it stifles their freedom of expression rights or it is a misguided attempt to meet their needs.
i am a child of the boomer generation and it certainly isn't fun how bad my parents thought me to deal with negative emotions. i seldom got a plain NO but winded excuses, then was ridiculed when i got angry.
> I asked on here a while back if givem the current issue of how people sexualise others especially females, if this same attitude is prevalent within naturist communities, or in fact if judging how one looks is prevalent in those communities too. I an not a naturist but from doing some digging on the local naturist club site. I would guess not, people respect each other regardless of how they look, and you can't exactly hide much if naked, oh and people can be comfotable in their own bodies.
i sometimes visit public sauna here and it's not an issue from my experience.
> The issue with smartphones is also that to interact with products companies create apps, even products aimed at kids have apps, toys have apps, restaurants have apps, sports teams etc you can't easily escape it. But that goes down to capitalism and making money at any cost.
yeah, duplo has apps. it's totally crazy.
> To use a lot of services you need a smart phone and app, but there are apps to help teach kids money management, so they do have some positive use.
i think i'll resort to the piggy-bank way of teaching responsible use of money :)
> Makes me sort of sad to see pics of kids sitting in a row glued to their phones, rather than taking to each other, they are possibly messaging each other, my conclusion is it is THEIR choice, and just move on. As with here we made a choice to join and dump the old fashioned social media.
well, the grown ups can't listen in :) i hang out with my friends in IRC and ICQ. then i also went fishing and stuff, things which seem to be absent from many kids lives now.