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I really dislike point by point breakdowns, it's too easy to take individual statements out of context and the lack of a clear thesis makes it incredibly difficult to respond without resorting to comments of even greater length.
In an effort to combat this, would it be fair to say your position is that while TikTok is bad, it's okay to still use it because it's extremely popular, and thus the ability to do things like engage or organize with other people in your subcultures is consequently quite high? "The good outweighs the ill" as it were? Which is a reasonable position to take, to be clear, even if your actual feelings are more nuanced.
(That's not me being bitchy, I just genuinely do not have the time to respond to every single thing you've said there. Explaining the literary difference between explicit and implicit dismissal of evidence would alone take us beyond the character limit, as my self indulgent explanation spiraled further and further into the jargony depths of academic tedium...)
Not the biggest fan either but sometimes it's the only way to organize a response in text with multiple layers of context. Far to easy in async discussion to branch off and it can be difficult to circle back or ask for clarification while addressing other items and it provides a way to organize.
I'm not here to have an in depth academic, cited, philosophical discussion. Not right now. I understand that you are pushing more in that direction and there's nothing wrong with it. As such, I'm not formulating arguments or discussing with that in mind. We don't need to have a discussion of dismissal of evidence because I'm sure we're on the same page. But I don't owe you a perfectly crafted argument in a Lemmy thread. This is informal, and as such there are times where one has to leave space for less rigid constructs for presenting evidence.
I've found this frustrating. But I don't think you are outright trying to troll which is why I've engaged. I hope you understand that I'm not going to engage at the level you might wish I would. (Its exhausting to do so in a context like this even though I'm an academic and philosophical discussion-minded person at heart)
I'm more concerned about the methodology of the ban and its downstream effects of it than whether (in your case, extremely valid criticism) amounts to it deserving a ban. I'm not going to find some articles for you or counter that because it's not something I want to spend my time doing since the reality is extremely nuanced and we could present evidence from both perspectives for days.
More or less. I think there are plenty of things to criticize the platform for and/or strive to adopt a less-bad platform for. Users of the platform should be allowed to stay or not stay, and not be abruptly cut off for a political stunt by an authoritarian act of government, and as such, my position is that celebrating this particular ban is antithetical to the overall goals that one would expect from people using the fediverse.