There’s a lot of false equivalence in these comments along with a focus on the app itself. My worry is about CCP influence and their ability to both spread mis

There’s a lot of false equivalence in these comments along with a focus on the app itself. My worry is about CCP influence and their ability to both spread misinformation and at the same time suppress stories the party doesn’t like. Easy current examples are the democracy protests in Hong Kong, and the sterilization going on in the Uyghur camps in China. On Twitter you can talk about both things, on TikTok they will be shut down by the CCP and it’s set up in such a way that users wouldn’t even notice. On Twitter you can also be critical of the USG. That’s the risk to me, that the CCP turns down the knobs on speech they dislike and the public is too focused on dance videos to notice. It’s an even greater risk to people like Joshua Wong, not only would his speech be suppressed on TikTok, but the company would also hand over whatever personal or location data they had on him to the government itself. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Wong https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Wong) The CCP should not be stewards of the services we use.