The NEW TikTok. It's spyware par excellence. Thank you, Larry Ellison and fiends.

[usonian]

https://alimcforever.substack.com/p/to-my-fellow-tik-tok-creators

To My Fellow Tik Tok Creators
I didn't sign up to be exploited by a bunch of bunker faced b*lloxs, did you?
Jan 25, 2026

TikTok closed its US ownership restructuring on January 22, 2026. This moved operational control to TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC—a consortium led by Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX with ByteDance retaining 19.9% ownership.

Within 24 hours, the platform imposed new mandatory Terms of Service updates on its United States users that expand data collection (precise GPS location, citizenship status, racial origin), explicitly authorise use of creator content to train AI models, and extend advertising reach beyond the platform.

Wonderful features listed in the article: (just a summary outline. The author goes into great detail)

Step One: Watch Everything
Step Two: Connect Everything
Step Three: predict and sell
That is the business of surveillance capitalism.
Step Four: Dependency