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Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada

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747 points empressplay | 6 comments | 06 Nov 24 23:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.479s | source | bottom
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joshdavham ◴[06 Nov 24 23:38 UTC] No.42071299[source]▶
> "Most people can say, 'Why is it a big deal for a teenager now to have their data [on TikTok]?' Well in five years, in 10 years, that teenager will be a young adult, will be engaged in different activities around the world,"

I’m technically Gen-Z (but just barely) and this is something that really worries me. It’s become increasingly normal in recent times to share absolutely everything online but I’ve got a pretty grim feeling that this isn’t gonna end well. People don’t realize that the AI’s being trained on your data today will act as an internet history that you can never delete.

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ipaddr ◴[07 Nov 24 00:24 UTC] No.42071740[source]▶
I wouldn't worry about it the truth is the internet forgets quickly. Important popular things disappear quicker than you expect. User data and logs exponentially becomes less valuable as time goes out. Know you are at McDonalds now is much more valuable then that you visited 10 years ago and being able to connect this data becomes difficult when devices switch. Video from 2005's is generally not easily consumable because of format changes and quality from a few years ago makes older video painful to watch. Even facebook starts forgetting data you upload.. stops being searchable after a few years.
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1. gruez ◴[07 Nov 24 00:44 UTC] No.42071920[source]▶
What about 10 years from now, it came out that some politician liked (or "engaged with) a bunch of racist videos when he was a kid?
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2. ipaddr ◴[07 Nov 24 03:28 UTC] No.42073065[source]▶
That would make the politician 25 or younger. Easy to pivot. Now 20 years would put the person at 35. You could survive a crack addition in your teens 20 years later if that came out.

But evidence starts disappearing. 20 bad articles about you in 5 years 10 might survive in 10 years maybe 2 might survive.

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3. randomdata ◴[07 Nov 24 03:50 UTC] No.42073191[source]▶
What if this year it came out that a politician falsified business records and was criminally convicted for it? Why you'd make him President, of course!

There was certainly a fad when social media was new to get all worked up about finding out about something someone did in the past, where people were even losing their shit over something that would normally be innocuous like a photo of a teacher enjoying a beer at a party. But, I think we're kind of over it at this point. Fashion trends don't last forever.

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4. genewitch ◴[07 Nov 24 04:35 UTC] No.42073439[source]▶
JD Vance had college pictures of him plastered on the news, so i am not sure what your yardstick's for measuring how "over it" we are as a society.
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5. randomdata ◴[07 Nov 24 05:12 UTC] No.42073612{3}[source]▶
Certainly once the elderly (those who follow the news) start to latch onto a fashion trend, it is definitely over.
6. ipaddr ◴[07 Nov 24 06:22 UTC] No.42073970{3}[source]▶
The news cycle at that level churns on anything and everything will come out. Are you comfortable with them interviewing old neighbors or people who went to the same school but didn't know you? At that level online activities are my least concern, old girlfriends or work colleagues or ex friends can spread the most impactful dirt. When material doesn't exist they just throw dirt to see what sticks.

You wouldn't have that problem. Try looking someone up these days in Google and you soon discover everything lives in walled in gardens like Facebook or instagram or iCloud or Snapchat or telegram.