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    • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip
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      6 months ago

      Apparently TikTok has said they would actually prefer to shutdown US operations rather than sell.

      It would be hilarious to imagine a government run tiktok.

      Oh my job? I scroll TikTok all day looking for morons posting crimes they do online and tagging them to be forwarded to local police departments.

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        6 months ago

        Oh my job? I scroll TikTok all day looking for morons posting crimes they do online and tagging them to be forwarded to local police departments.

        I have no doubt that some police departments actually do this. You can gather a lot of intelligence from public posts by people that aren’t very intelligent.

        I’ve seen policy bodycam videos on YouTube where the police knew where to find a criminal with a warrant because they were on TikTok or a similar site, bragging about some crime they committed, and tagged the location.