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Absolutely nothing?
This is a country that has incredibly authoritarian laws on the books regarding the internet because it doesn't want it's people reading """""western propaganda"""", why would we assume it's reason for continuing that behaviour isn't the same as it's always been: bullshit
It tells me that TikTok is used to brainwash people and that they don't want their own weapon used against them.
And I agree other social media does the same. Maybe a little less obvious. The Chinese authoritarian government can obviously protect their own from this much more effectively.
In America blocking an app like TikTok is considered taking away the freedom of people to choose and express themselves. Especially after getting a large part of the population addicted to the crappy content.
China is using the freedom of the west against them.
We used to put you people in asylums, modern countries out you people in psych wards.
Great argument, well substantiated.
What argument can be made against actual schizophrenic ramblings with absolutely no basis in reality? How can one start to address the finer points of an argument made during a psychotic break?
What part of the argument has no basis in reality?
These are the facts:
My conclusion is that it's not unlikely TikTok is used at least to some degree, by the Chinese as a tool for spying, and to spread propaganda to further their own agenda.
While the Chinese version is somewhat educational, in the west it spreads misinformation, it has people waste time doing dumb ass dances and playback songs. It effectively makes people stupid.
Now please enlighten me and show me my logical fallacy.
China does not own Tiktok, as stated previously, with linked proof. The basis of your discriminatory beliefs is false, so the rest of your beliefs are false, and likely racist in origin. Get help.
Right, but Tiktok isnt a Chinese company.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance
ByteDance Ltd. is a Chinese internet technology company headquartered in Haidian, Beijing and incorporated in the Cayman Islands.
But ByteDance, the creators of TikTok are.
Bytedance only owns 60% of Tiktok, and didn't create it.
Which changes absolutely nothing to my argument, even if true (which I don't think)
... Which means it's not a Chinese company, bytedance is. It's like saying Activision-Blizzard is a Chinese company because a large part of their shareholders are Chinese companies.
That's now how business ownership works. Blindly repeating Trumps talking points makes you just look like a racist.
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/27/g-s1-40213/donald-trump-tiktok-ban-supreme-court
Tell me again how Trump wants to ban TikTok.
After using Twitter as a propaganda tool, he now sees another chance to influence naive voters. He'll probably have it split up so his new best friend Elon Musk can take over.