American companies can't operate in China without a controlling stake held by Chinese companies.
I do not know of a single media app from the us allowed to operate in China.
A few months ago Weren't we complaining about all the misinformation out there? Do you not think a giant media app run by an adversarial government could be weaponized? If it already hasn't. Like the app warning promoting trump.
Ps. "TikTok, in its international form, is not available to users in mainland China."
Let's let adversarial countries use a business model not present in thiers to the detriment of society.
I know your not very smart so I'll do the thinking for you, OK cutie?
Let's start with what we know!
The ccp is HEAVILY INVOLVED in businesses in China. Bytedance, a Chinese company decided it was a better business move to not sell for 100b+ to an American company. It then shuts itself down, which wasn't part of the deal while insinuating democrats were the reason it was shutting down [it was bipartisan] and that trump may save it. So it's easy for anyone with half a brain that causing stupid Americans to be upset and spewing propaganda was worth over 100 billion dollars to a business ultimately run by the Chinese government.
I know that paragraph is literally larger than you've ever read but power through the brain rot to attempt to understand it. Maybe pretend i was flossing on skibidi toilet with rizzlers while writing it
Yeehaw!
Aye but its no a flat out ban like the US has(although US propaganda divisions have permission to use tik tok to spread pro US propaganda under the law)
This argument is still invalid. If our information goes to them either way (via TikTok or via Meta selling it to them) it’s still going to them. Only removing TT takes away the ability for US citizens to monetize the app, socialize on the app, etc. Either way, China gets our information. Banning TT just gives our government the money (in their pockets, not ours) and takes away our voices. It also isolates us from the rest of the world and silences the truth through getting rid of fact checking. It’s just a blatant overreach of power.
The information security arguement is not the main arguement. Defenders of TikTok always seem to go back to this. The security arguement is why it is banned on government devices. The problem is that the Chinese government can influence what info is promoted in the app and control what 10s of millions will see, with no way to know definitively that they are doing it. This is the same reason foreigners can’t own legacy media assets either. If TikTok was a normal business just out to make money then why didn’t the Chinese owners spin it into a separate entity and IPO it? Why risk an asset that should be worth a trillion dollars by defying this law?
It's amazing how often I see someone make a comment about tiktok being used by the Chinese government to spread misinformation or manipulate opinions only to be hit with a bunch of irrelevant responses of "yeah but China can just buy your data anyway."
You have tik tok brain. You're just repeating what the influences were saying because they were losing their way of making money off of you. This isn't a freedom of speech issue if tik tok is banned.
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u/Easy-to-bypass-bans Jan 19 '25
American companies can't operate in China without a controlling stake held by Chinese companies.
I do not know of a single media app from the us allowed to operate in China.
A few months ago Weren't we complaining about all the misinformation out there? Do you not think a giant media app run by an adversarial government could be weaponized? If it already hasn't. Like the app warning promoting trump.
Ps. "TikTok, in its international form, is not available to users in mainland China."
It's banned in It's own country.