us be like please please stop spying on our children so that WE can do that and also prevent the thoughtcrime of believing genocide (in Palestine) is bad
But you do realise there’s a difference between a business owning some data about its users in a well regulated democracy and the Chinese state having free access to a tonne of personal data about a vast amount of people in the West?
Also, I presume you are aware that China prohibits the export of data on Chinese citizens to western servers.
While it’s not exactly important who started it, China started it.
Government did not care what happened on Tiktok during the KIA nonsense. Tiktok is now more controlled and cleaned up and became a new source for young people. Now the government wants to ban it. It is much better than before and the whole time it was Chines owned. So now, you have to argue against two points.
It was OK Asian people owned it before. Why not now?
The content is moderated now and adults no longer complain it's worse than Instagram, Twitter, or the racist cesspool of a comment section that is Youtube.
You can be critical of the CCP but also see the increased urgency in "fixing tiktok" after US/Israel propaganda to hide Palestine genocide got stymied by tiktok.
If they had the best of the users in mind they would try to sell it. But if I was the CCP I would do everything so they couldn't sell it. Then you'd have a martyr which you could always point to that the US is also blocking, so blocking can't be so bad.
I don't see what the CCP would get out of selling it.
It's kind of revealing really, the CCP clearly doesn't want this app operating in the US simply to make money otherwise they'd simply sell and move on.
Hopefully users will be able to put 2+2 together themselves once the withdrawal starts to fade.
TikTok CEO Shou Chew has issued a rallying cry to users that the company plans to fight a possible US ban.
A foreign-aid bill passed Tuesday by the US Senate and signed by President Joe Biden Wednesday has millions of Americans who use TikTok freaking out over a potential ban.
The clip has over four million views as of Wednesday afternoon, and the comments show that users aren't ready to say goodbye to TikTok anytime soon.
Many expressed support for Chew, whose call to action hints at the pressure building against TikTok and its Chinese owners, Bytedance.
Others credited the platform for helping users find "their voice and livelihood" and providing "a sense of community here that we don't have anywhere else."
Despite Chew's defiant video and the growing outrage from the app's users, a TikTok ban won't happen in the immediate future.
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