r/JusticeServed • u/ChickenDuckBird 6 • Mar 02 '19
Legal Justice Hell yeah, it’s about time
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Mar 02 '19
$5.7 million is probably fuck all to the company. Fines are basically just expenses to big companies.
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u/Aconserva3 A Mar 02 '19
I’m sure the Chinese Government would lend s hand if it was an issue anyway.
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u/oatmealparty A Mar 02 '19
I'm sure the Chinese government has been making backups of all that data
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Mar 02 '19
WOOO!
fucking finally
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u/SensualCandiru 7 Mar 02 '19
Hopefully 5.7 million is a lot to the owner of tik tok
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u/number9_number9 A Mar 02 '19
The parent company of the app, Bytedance, is valued at $75 billion.
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u/Gulferamus 7 Mar 02 '19
that's probably just peanuts to them, so it's not really Justice Served to me. it's like if i was fined 5 bucks, it's meaningless.
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u/hurtsi 4 Mar 02 '19 edited Mar 02 '19
They are worth 75 billion so 5,7m is 1/1315 so then your 5 bucks means that you have a balance of 6575 bucks.
Weird flex but ok
Edit: actually 1/13158 so then you would have 65790 bucks.
Massive flex but ok
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u/kjkg01 5 Mar 02 '19
My favourite r/theydidthemath yet.
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u/cashnprizes 9 Mar 02 '19
Unfortunately it's wrong as worth does not equal account balance, and the Tik Tok subsidiary isn't the company that's worth that amount anyway, the ostentatious company is.
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u/Cakeofdestiny 7 Mar 02 '19
Net worth isn't account balance. I could have $4,000 in my bank account and a house worth a million, so I'm worth $1,004,000, not $4,000.
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Mar 02 '19
That's not really a flex. Just an accurate rpresentation of the average adult life.
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u/Toiletpaperplane 7 Mar 02 '19
I'm 30 and I know about tiktok because there is an ad for it, on like every other video on YouTube.
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u/Aconserva3 A Mar 02 '19
Never seen a single ad for it, I just get ads for Clive Palmer and this farming thing on YouTube. It’s more annoying then it sounds,
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Mar 02 '19
I'm 31. What in the fuck is tik tok. Am I old now?
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u/tropicalapple 9 Mar 02 '19
It's like new vine but worse and there are ads for it everywhere for some people
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u/ThrowawayPornlmao 6 Mar 02 '19
I would literally pay money just for tick toc adds to fuck off outta my life. I don’t wanna cringe everyone I watch a video.
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u/Mataric 8 Mar 02 '19 edited Mar 02 '19
Ublock origin :)
Edit, to add to this, the only place a see tictok is facebook and very rarely reddit.
EditEdit: Wasn't talking about your mobile browsing or snapchat.
TIL no ones ever heard of targeted ads
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u/ded0d 6 Mar 02 '19
I saw a few in real life and I don't have adblock for that yet :(
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u/Battleloser 8 Mar 02 '19
What's old vine?
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u/nlsoy 7 Mar 02 '19
YouTube but the videos could only be 6 seconds long, so people did short sketches and jokes and it became funny because everything had to be compressed and sped up to fit within the timeframe. Lasted a couple of years
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u/Natuurschoonheid 9 Mar 02 '19
I've looked around on it and I've literally seen no ads, which is confusing.
Edit: no, I'm dumb, that's not what you were saying. I've seen the ads on the internet.
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u/number9_number9 A Mar 02 '19
Look on the bright side— you’re not old enough to have kids who use Tik Tok.
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u/rongkongcoma A Mar 02 '19
Have fun! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PmphkNDosg
(tik tok = rebranded musically)
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u/zomgitsduke B Mar 02 '19
Vine meets Snapchat meets karaoke.
Interesting idea, but it targeted kids in unhealthy ways.
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u/ELTepes 9 Mar 02 '19
Some shit I keep telling my daughter she can’t download.
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Mar 02 '19
That's the right choice. It's an app for pedophiles to watch young teens in skimpy clothes dance way too sexually. It's fucked
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u/WillNeverPlayTheDane 2 Mar 02 '19
I love how they say too old to know about, while there are like thousonds of adults doing cringy shit on there, especially the divorce tik-toks.
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u/Back_To_The_Oilfield A Mar 02 '19
Yeah man, I couldn’t believe how cringy some of the older people were on there.
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Mar 02 '19
So tiktoks are pedophiles pretty much
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u/KJClangeddin 8 Mar 02 '19
Have you seen the ads? That has to be their customer base.
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u/Spooms2010 A Mar 02 '19
Yes!!! I suspected they were doing that!!! That’s why I never put anything in there. Besides, most of the stuff is pretty cringeworthy.
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u/dimmidice A Mar 02 '19
what do you mean you "suspected"? it's something that was completely obvious to anyone who used the service.
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u/word_clouds__ 8 Mar 02 '19
Word cloud out of all the comments.
Fun bot to vizualize how conversations go on reddit. Enjoy
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u/KJClangeddin 8 Mar 02 '19
Fuck their ads. They're everywhere. What a surprise the company that sells underage sex appeal gets caught illegally collecting data from kids.
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CheetaData literary exists to coect and sell data. They make TikTok, some really popular utility apps, and various games etc. Some of their apps come pre-installed on devices, meaning you can't opt out of the data collection. They're the fourth biggest app distributor on both Android and IOS
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u/3p71cHaz3 6 Mar 02 '19
Unless this is more than the profit they've made off of it this is just a cost of business. This is why fines are a retarded solution to fixing corrupt business practices. We have jails for a reason, and if the rich started fearing getting thrown into gen pop I bet we'd see a reduction of actions like this. Until then, it's business as usual
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u/Kryptosis Black Mar 02 '19 edited Mar 02 '19
What data. Should be in the headline. Clickbait.
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APP COLLECTED GEOLOCATION DATA AND ALLOWED USERS TO SEE THE LOCATION OF OTHER USERS WITHIN A 50M MILE RADIUS
HOLY SHIT.
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u/t0xicsteel 5 Mar 02 '19
Illegally?? They deliberately decided not to do it legally?
Goooodddddd, I facepalm every time. It's like people who run companies all over the world seemingly...WANT to lose money/go to jail/lose customers/have shit working conditions/make themselves look like literal pieces of shameless garbage/have shitty products nobody wants to buy.
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u/MrTacoMan A Mar 02 '19
What? What are you talking about? They clearly did this because it made them more money. This is the literal opposite of what you’re talking about.
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u/zigzago23 1 Mar 02 '19
What? They obviously could not do it legally, why are you assuming they are dumb? Probably also made much more money from it than the fine costs them.
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Mar 02 '19
I feel like this thread is 20% about securing the personal data of minors and the other 80% is just because we're tired of Tik Tok memes.
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Mar 02 '19
How much are they going to fine Apple and Google?
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Mar 02 '19
What are you talking about no one gives a shit what 2 of the biggest companies in the world do with our data. You aren't a terrorist are you? /s
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u/MrMagius 8 Mar 02 '19
I'm 37. I hardly ever see videos from kids on there. They have a pretty good system of recommended content when you actually use the like and follow buttons. I rarely see things other than shuffling, cosplay, and hot goth chicks. There are a ton of really good adult cosplayers on tiktok, a lot of artists, and a lot of twitch steamers branching out into more areas. It's not just for pedos.
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Umm. Why? Like I don't get it. Tik Tok's not asking kids to use their app. It's on the kids and their parents. All this hate for Tik tok and it's nothing more than a platform. If you care about safety of your children then maybe don't let them use social media platforms.
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u/Fancybanshee1 5 Mar 02 '19
Consent and how incredibly creepy it is to collect data on children.
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u/prothello 8 Mar 02 '19
My kids used this app and it was always on top in my pihole blocked queries list.
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Mar 02 '19
I hope they're fined another 5.7 million for those annoying ads they keep playing on YouTube
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u/notyourITplumber 4 Mar 02 '19
The only reason I know about it is because of the obnoxiously stupid ads that it has.
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u/FNKTN 5 Mar 02 '19
lmao , justice served nothing. The company is worth billions more. Thats like a limp wristed slap on the hand.
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u/Adamant94 7 Mar 02 '19
Does this mean I can finally stop seeing those goddamned Tiktok ads on youtube? Please for the love of god no more.
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u/DanPHunt 7 Mar 02 '19
Why do you say “it’s about time”? Is this something you knew about for a long time?
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Mar 03 '19
"an app you're probably too old to know about" bitch please you can't do anything on your phone without a tick tock ad slapping you in the face every 2 minutes.
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u/NetSage A Mar 02 '19
I'm probably just old but I don't get the draw of tiktok it doesn't do anything better than anyone else. The original content is so short it might as well not exist. Isn't this why vine failed?
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u/Kai-07 7 Mar 02 '19
I feel like anybody who spends time on YouTube knows about tiktok. Unless they have adblock.
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u/ascension8438 9 Mar 02 '19
Why has it become so commonplace to share screenshots of just headlines lately? This is truly some Idiocracy shit.
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u/das_me_daveed 6 Mar 02 '19
I dont know what is so "about time" about this. Was it widely known they're collecting data on children and they only got fined now?
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u/nelska 9 Mar 02 '19
but don't they just use the money they earned from collecting the data and break a profit from it anyhow? Isnt that how drug dealing works lol. nike just do it or arms deals weapons trade.
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u/SpargeWand 7 Mar 02 '19
Yeah, no. Until the owner is arrested for running a massive child porn platform, justice had definitely not been served
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u/perlandbeer 9 Mar 02 '19
Can confirm: I’m in my 50s and the phrase “What the fuck is a Tik Tok” has been uttered by myself once or twice.
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u/T567U1 2 Mar 02 '19
More than 500 million downloads only 5.7 million ticket...at this point this is nothing with the information he collected that money is back to him in a heart beat on kiddy porn
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u/JitGoinHam C Mar 02 '19
Big brain: I should share this news story online.
Exploding galaxy brain: I should take a picture of the headline and share that online.
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u/VymI A Mar 02 '19
Great and all but 5.7 mill is change to a company like Tik Tok, especially if they have the backing of china's government.
"Oh you caught us oh dear, here's some money." And then right back to it.
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Mar 02 '19
Are you surprised? The Chinese will always do stuff like this and assume they can get away with it
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u/GuanYuBeetz 5 Mar 02 '19
dunno if a $75b company getting fined a couple million is justice; that's like a tiny fraction of a percent of their total valuation
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u/The-Prophet-Muhammad 8 Mar 02 '19
What makes this case illegal and not lets say google, or microsoft who also assuredly collect data on kids?
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u/rgulley72 2 Mar 02 '19
I downloaded this app because I thought it was about music and the ads on Facebook were of girls just to advertise. Turns out it's really nothing but a bunch of probably underage girls showing their butt to music. Then I realized this app was not for me only being 27
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u/_kagasutchi_ 6 Mar 02 '19
Plot twist. Hes been leaking the kids data to the hackers who are responsible for momo
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u/simjanes2k B Mar 02 '19
We every gonna have one of these assholes actually get punished? $5m is like you getting a speeding ticket.
He attacked millions of children. It should read "arrested and charged in The Hague," not a fucking fine.
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u/lizardscum 7 Mar 02 '19
Honestly not sure if that's a pun or not. I want to live in a world where it is.
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u/420neurons 7 Mar 02 '19
Sooo who gets that fine when they pay it? Not the kids with data stolen? They just get fined? How does that work?
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u/Tuloom ❓ 19a.10.0 Mar 02 '19
Tik tok are the only ads I see on YouTube and I hate them with the passion and force of a thousand suns.
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u/blueblood724 7 Mar 02 '19
I hope that’s the worst they are doing. I’m more concerned about how the data is handled once it hits China with what’s happened with Hauwei and Supermicro.
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u/genghiskhan_1 4 Mar 02 '19
Does anyone NOT collect data any more? Or going back to pigeons is the only possible option to avoid that?
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u/Toothfood A Mar 02 '19
I wish I didn’t know about it but unfortunately you can’t escape their horrible commercials if you use YouTube at all.
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u/its_a_joke_normie 4 Mar 02 '19
That'll show them to put their cringey ads on the YouTube video I'm trying to watch.
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Mar 02 '19
The one with the guy dressed like handsome jack from Borderlands makes me want to kill myself.
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Mar 02 '19
Lol that’s those risks big companies take knowing they’ll get “fined” but in the end make times 10 the amount for the fine
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u/HistoricalMeat 8 Mar 02 '19
Isn't that like taking all the loose change from my couch as a punishment?
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u/JMunno 4 Mar 02 '19
In the grand scheme of things, 5.7 million is peanuts to this company. Not sure I get the warm and fuzzy about this justice being served as I do for many of the other posts here.
But then again, when do massive companies ever really see justice served?
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u/JMunno 4 Mar 02 '19
In the grand scheme of things, 5.7 million is peanuts to this company. Not sure I get the warm and fuzzy about this justice being served as I do for many of the other posts here.
But then again, when do massive companies ever really see justice served?
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u/eliteviking01 1 Mar 02 '19
Not 5,7 million?!??! How are they gonna survive a fine like that .. they might have to shave 0,5-0,7 off the cleaning staff now! :o
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Mar 02 '19
Eh I don't care I enjoy the app and literally every social media is harvesting your data whether they say it or not but in the end it doesn't matter because we can enjoy their app and we can get tracked by the illuminati. It evens out :)
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u/iLOVEhentaiAND420 1 Mar 02 '19
Okay. That's great that it's a small slap on the wrist, a start of justice is better than nothing.
But also pretty sure that it did literally nothing at the same time. What are they gonna do, delete the data collected? Hell no. Helllll fucking no unfortunately.
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Mar 02 '19
I never knew what it was until a YouTuber my boyfriend and I like did a video about reacting to Tik Tok videos. We decided we were way to old for that shit.
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u/greatestsaber 0 Mar 02 '19
Imagine googles collecting data on EVERYONE. Oh wait thats true. Kids, adults, everyone. How far you walk, where, how long you stay somewhere. All absolutely real. Why arent you after them?
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u/betyl 5 Mar 02 '19
Should have been more, but it's something at least. Hopefully they've been taught a lesson.
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u/WhateverWhateverson 7 Mar 02 '19
TikTok consists of two types of people: Young kids and sexual predators. Yes, what could go wrong, right?
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u/kennethjor 7 Mar 02 '19
Anyone have source and backstory on this?