Greece, the entire country, emits less than 52 million metric tons of CO2 per year. A normal cargo ship carrying containers in international shipping emits between 140 million and 440 million metric tons of CO2 per year.

Facebook, which claims to use ‘carbon offsets’ still admits to producing 34 million tons of CO2 with just facebook, this doesn’t include the other things it does like ‘AI’, Instagram or the metaverse. (FYI: carbon offsets aren’t real, they are a myth used to give cover for not changing practices or becoming more environmentally friendly)

Tik-tok is by no means an environmentally sound product, but none of these apps are. They aren’t because the power comes from fossil fuels. Even when mentioning container ships, I have to admit that they are so bad for the environment because they burn the worst fuel and lots of it.

As long as Facebook is getting subsidized and sheltered from regulation or consequences, any pearl clutching about tik-tok should be seen as the obvious sour grapes that it is.

The guardian doesn’t give a shit about climate change, Facebook is full of shit about net zero, and the only meaning ful differences between tik Tok and the other social media companies is that one of them comes from China and doesn’t fall in line with the same exact agenda as western oligarchs.

It’s so silly that we can acknowledge the rot caused by the influence of oligarchs in Russia and China but when it comes to seeing the richest man in the world by a social media company and completely change everything about it before he decided to buy a president people from across the political spectrum seem to think that it’s inappropriate to call these folks oligarchs.

Zuckerberg, bezos, musk, etc are oligarchs. Oligarchs don’t abide dissent, competition, or any other implied virtue of democracy.

Well at least it’s educational