While I could not give less of a shit about TikTok except as a possible personal source of revenue for people who want to hire me to make videos for them, I’m a hell of a lot more worried about the influence of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter now that you’re allowed to do things like call queer people mentally ill pedophiles and immigrants are dirty criminals.
Both sides can be bad, with TikTok the problem is that it is controlled by an adversary, a nation that doesn’t have good relationship with the US and wants it to collapse.
Frankly if I had power I would go after Twitter and Meta as well.
You won’t find me supporting Twitter or Meta, and I won’t deny that their owners do seem to be influenced by foreign governments (directly or indirectly), but TikTok is clearly information Domain Warfare and it would be hell of a stupid to continue allowing it if they are still controlled by Chinese government. This is why that sale is for.
That’s the core reason for requirement to sell it. Right now there’s no way to regulate it. It is an app that influences 17 million Americans controlled by a country that right now regularly conducted cyber attacks on our infrastructure. What could go wrong?
Tankies: But it’s just a lil Chinese app, why the US single out TiKTok‽
That’s why. That’s an incredible amount of influence right there.
While I could not give less of a shit about TikTok except as a possible personal source of revenue for people who want to hire me to make videos for them, I’m a hell of a lot more worried about the influence of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter now that you’re allowed to do things like call queer people mentally ill pedophiles and immigrants are dirty criminals.
And this is why. Facebook is allowing exactly the same thing that they allowed to foment genocide in Myanmar: https://www.404media.co/meta-is-laying-the-narrative-groundwork-for-trumps-mass-deportations-2/
You think Elon and Zuck are better?
Both sides can be bad, with TikTok the problem is that it is controlled by an adversary, a nation that doesn’t have good relationship with the US and wants it to collapse.
Frankly if I had power I would go after Twitter and Meta as well.
As opposed to billionaires working with the trump admin…
If you don’t think this is adversarial government, I won’t try to convince you, it’ll keep getting more and more obvious
You won’t find me supporting Twitter or Meta, and I won’t deny that their owners do seem to be influenced by foreign governments (directly or indirectly), but TikTok is clearly information Domain Warfare and it would be hell of a stupid to continue allowing it if they are still controlled by Chinese government. This is why that sale is for.
https://youtu.be/9JQLaf4QaOs?t=6m51s
If TikTok wasn’t a weapon, wouldn’t it make more sense to sell it and get something than not selling it and have nothing?
The current behavior only makes sense if the real value was being China’s propaganda piece. A normal business would just go after money.
You think the French nobility fund d US revolutionaries because they were upset about taxes?
If a country is doing something in another country, it’s for selfish reasons 99% of the time.
If China wants to allow a place for people to complain about trump not controlled by a billionaire in Trump’s side…
What they get out of it isn’t the primary concern. It’s helping the American people even if only done to fuck with Trump’s administration
It’s not an either/or thing, both can be bad, both should be banned or at least heavily regulated. Right now we got one banned so far so I’ll take it
That’s the core reason for requirement to sell it. Right now there’s no way to regulate it. It is an app that influences 17 million Americans controlled by a country that right now regularly conducted cyber attacks on our infrastructure. What could go wrong?
US just trying to stop China from getting a culture victory in this game of Civ.