Comment on TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal

• knokelmaat@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  While technically correct, they do have it in China itself, it’s a modified version called Douyin. It is more restricted, censored and tightly controlled.

  I agree that it is a cyberweapon, but don’t think that it’s only used against foreigners, they use it just as much to observe and influence their own population.

  Finally, I would like to point out that to a lesser extent this is also the case for a lot of USA owned social media and tech companies. Edward Snowden’s revelations for example indicate this. While the extent of government control and influence is much larger in China, I wouldn’t underestimate the influences of Meta, Google and Microsoft for example.

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  • TeraByteMarx@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What exactly is a cyber weapon? How is tik tok different or more harmful than twitter for example

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• finderscult@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Mainly because tiktok has nothing to do with China.

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