Comment by LargeWu
4 days ago
It's not about getting our data. The TikTok algorithm is already being used to sow discord by showing stuff the PRC wants impressionable Americans to see. This ability of an adversarial foreign nation to surgically push individualized propaganda to consumers in another country is pretty unparalleled in human history. TikTok is the ultimate propaganda machine.
At this point, I trust Xi approximately as much as I do Zuck and Musk with my economic future.
‘There are three fires’ is not an argument against putting out any one of them.
Can you link to some evidence of any of those claims? US politicians' statements do not count as evidence.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/13/tiktok-...
It sounds like they were complying with a Russian law?
TikTok is basically the same as Facebook/Instagram/Y.T.Shorts but with a different owner
Well... yes... it's the owner the government is concerned about.
The law requires that ownership of TikTok be changed before it continues operating in the US, not that TikTok stop operating.
Right, I guess I'm agreeing with you that social media is an effective propaganda machine (they're ad companies and what is an ad but propaganda to buy a product) and the US Govt wants one where they set the tone.
I was disagreeing with GP that seemed to act like TikTok was uniquely a propaganda engine
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