In a way, yes. As I understand it TikTok exists under a different name in China and strikingly different content, the CCP also limits usage so their children aren't blathering idiots that spend all day making stupid videos.
So, TikTok as it exists in the US, is not allowed in China.
You nailed it. Meta and Google are doing the same. How is it good ? How can China “bury us” with silly short videos ?
Yup, I never said the wholesale collection of data is good, in fact I think it is horrible. Again, I don't use social media platforms like Meta, X or TikTok, but if I were to use a social media platform I would gladly choose the US billionaires over the CCP, that choice seems easy to me.
They are not going to "bury us" will silly videos in the literal sense, but as someone else here pointed out, I think it was
@AppliedMicro , American youth are basically idiots that will believe whatever they see on social media so leaving that in the hands of a foreign adversary is the literal definition of "national security risk".
Also, see post #86, even I would rather trust the Zuck with that data over the CCP. Turning a blind eye to Chinese espionage is dangerous and stupid.
7 MILLION small American businesses relied on the app for their livelihood.
Not accurate at all. Please provide citation that 7 million American businesses, or people, are now unemployed.
I would find it hard to believe that most content creators do not post to multiple platforms, at least smart ones do, then if one disappears it has minimal impact.
And with this ban, they also now have less freedom of speech than in other countries.
Please list the countries that have more freedom of speech than the US,
because of this ban, I'll wait.
