A couple corrections:
- China also blocks TikTok (I shit you not)
- The US isn’t “blocking” TikTok, they are forcing the parent company to sell it
If they refuse to sell, then sure the US will follow through with a block… but that’s not the intention. I guess the question is how much does Bytedance care about their US market? The US is TikTok’s largest market, but it’s still only about 5% of TikTok users. There are almost as many Indonesian users, and Brazil isn’t far behind. Plus Mexico, Russia, Vietnam, Phillipines…
And some of those countries might not want a US company to control TikTok.
Zuckerberg has said he doesn’t think it’s possible for any social network to operate (with significant marketshare) in every country, which is why he’s interested in the Fediverse. If there has to be a wide ecosystem of social networks, then users should be able to access content posted to other networks.
china has it’s own version of tiktok
Not sure who’s downvoting you, but for anyone else wondering it’s called “Douyin”.
First sentence of the Wikipedia article on TikTok: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok
Pretty much.
“Tiktok is a cyberweapon because I could use it to organize a protest…”
Well, by that argument, Twitter is a cyberweapon:
Is he arguing to shut down Twitter too?
Or newspapers?
Lol its a youtube video
TiKtOk iS a cYbErWeApOn
I can’t be the only one who got massive sinophobia vibes from this video.
- A large image of a Chinese flag on top of the monitor pushing the poor weak defenseless USA flag off to the side.
- White guy pointing at Asian guy and saying “people like this”. Implication? Be very afraid of “people like This” i.e. Asian/Chinese
- Saying that it could be used to attack white or white presenting women.
I’m not sure he intended it but the videos creator just pulled out basically half the ‘tricks’ racists use to get people rilled up in less than a minute.
Saying that it could be used to attack white or white presenting women.
That’s not his implication. The white woman there was protesting for a Gaza ceasefire. This guy has stated numerous times he views people protesting for a ceasefire in Gaza as idiots. Targeting in this context is targeting them as “useful idiots” to cause civil unrest.
Notice how it’s a total coincidence that TikTok must be banned again as soon as it becomes one of the biggest platforms for dissent wrt Israel and Gaza.
Well, the western version of Tik Tik could be deemed as a cyber weapon, because it is the only version of Tik Tok that promotes crap!
The only thing it’s a weapon to is US lies and capitalism.
