I mean are you ok with China having access to not only your information but also the ability to spread constant misinformation to influence the country in their favor?
China owns TikTok in the way that they own any Chinese company - they can and do request any and every form of cooperation desired by the government.
At the same time, yeah, they own more than 50% your ignorance and bias is showing.
I have never seen anything on TikTok from China except videos of an elderly lady who feeds a monkey. Also, what about Temu and SHEIN? Don’t they have access to people’s info, including financial?
Tik Tok is an invasion on your phone. It collects massive amounts of data including location data, facial recognition, IP address. Yes it’s using it to feed you content but all of that is nefarious in the hands of an adversarial government.
How? My algorithm is full of dogs that need rescuing, recipes, people mowing lawns for free, Taylor Swift, plant advice, book recommendations, etc. What’s China going to do differently with my information than twitter and Fakebook?
It’s not so much what it’s doing now but what it could do. This is a country with enslaved minorities in camps, that makes people disappear who express dissent. There is no sense of fairness like we presume in the US. They can do whatever they want with that information
What would they do with my info? And if China is our adversary, why do we import everything from there? It just doesn’t make sense to me. We are banning it for something they “might” do?
We've also got enslaved minorities and the incoming administration is actively working on the dissenters part. American companies and the government collect our information and can do whatever they want with it. As for a sense of fairness? Yeah, that hasn't been a thing since at least 2000.
That's your experience. Young adults 18-30 are allegedly using Tik Tok for their only news source and allegedly be manipulated by China.
Regardless of the lies he spews all the time, Trump tried to ban Tik Tok during his first term too. Opposition to this is political, everyone is on board.
Absolutely zero content on my feed on Tik Tok that influences my view of China. Are they tracking what content I consume for marketing? Probably. But so I Apple and Amazon.
Why? What purpose does that serve? We are all being tracked all the time on our phones. We have no idea who or which countries buy the data. Why single out TT?
X under Musk is doing the same thing. Also, FB allowed its platform to disseminate disinformation in the past & will do so again now that moderation is being removed. Domestic malfeasance on social media platforms is dangerous to our national stability. China is not our only threat.
Are we going to ban temu, SheIn, Alibaba, etc? Bc they collect even more data than TikTok, and including physical address and payment information... We need media literacy more than we need government to ensure only oligarchs donating to POTUS can manipulate things.
But China clearly has the ability to shut down American infrastructure through the essential knowledge of how many Americans have leaned how to do this dance.
Is that what you think is happening? People aren’t getting influenced to favour China, they’re watching cat videos. Besides Meta has access to everyone’s information, are you fine with that?
i mean yeah literally that’s how countries work. there is some ability to control what’s happening in your own country which you don’t have if it’s another country which is a geopolitical adversary
Not a direct yes or no with regard to American oligarchs, but a definite NO to China or Russia, whose loyalties are to the state that alllows them to act.
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Also TikTok is not owned by China, but international share holders, American included.
And if China really wanted to spy on us they could have done it all along. They make most of our electronics. They don’t need TikTok.
At the same time, yeah, they own more than 50% your ignorance and bias is showing.
China monitors our children on an intelligence spectrum.
Banning TikTok is a distraction from the real home grown threat we now have.
And TikTok is an excellent way to connect, communicate and organize.
Regardless of the lies he spews all the time, Trump tried to ban Tik Tok during his first term too. Opposition to this is political, everyone is on board.
They'd definitely do a better job with it.
When I lived there those people were FAR less stressed out than we are.