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My naive question is how is Tiktok bad and all other American social media platforms - FB/Insta/Snap good?
by sharadov 6y ago
My naive question is how is Tiktok bad and all other American social media platforms - FB/Insta/Snap good?
- tguedes 6y agoDid you read the article?
- chvid 6y agoIt is bad because it is Chinese.
- gpanders 6y agoThis question is explored in-depth in the article.
- orangse 6y agoMy theoretical answer would be that we can regulate American companies more effectively and have them be held accountable, like when Zuckerberg had to go before Congress. I doubt you'd be able to get the CEO of a large Chinese company to do that. In reality we don't regulate them nearly as much as we can, so the end result is that FB and Tiktok both invade your privacy.
- esperent 6y agoAs a non-American looking on, it seems to me like the US government has failed spectacularly at any kind of regulation, and to the contrary is often actively trying to undermine privacy laws. Zuckerberg in front of congress achieved exactly zero, except provide footage for loads of memes of Zuckerberg as a lizard. I prefer the idea of a US based social media company to a Chinese one. But only slightly. I would much rather the company be based somewhere with genuine intent to create consumer safety and privacy focused laws.
- aledalgrande 6y ago> TikTok and Douyin's servers are each based in the market where the respective app is available. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TikTok
- Dahoon 6y agoBut getting him in front of Congress didn't nothing at all. Also then world is bigger than the US and PRC.
- andreilys 6y agoAlgorithm and moderation policies are opaque. They can be used to subvert a geopolitical rival and spread discord. It’s pretty trivial to do that, and nobody would be the wiser.
- oxymoran 6y agoBecause FB/Insta/Snap aren’t indirectly owned by the Chinese Communist Party. By definition, the communist regime owns all of China including all Chinese companies. TikTok is owned by ByteDance which bends the knee to the CCP. TikTok is not inherently bad, but the CCP is. Conversely, Facebook, in and of itself, is bad without the help of the CCP.
- tw04 6y agoI've never heard of facebook or snapchat or any of their major stakeholders being involved in mass (or any) industrial espionage. The same can't be said of the Chinese Government. That seems like a pretty distinct reason to be more OK with FB/Insta/Snap than TikTok.
- moreorless 6y agoTikTok = Chinese government? That is quite a leap there.
- tw04 6y agoNo, it really isn't even a little bit of a leap. Can't tell if you're trolling or severely misinformed. >Following the shutdown, ByteDance announced that it would give preference to Chinese Communist Party members in its hiring and increase its censors from 6,000 to 10,000 employees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance
- kbenson 6y agoFrom the article: All Chinese Internet companies are compelled by the country’s National Intelligence Law to turn over any and all data that the government demands, and that power is not limited by China’s borders. Moreover, this requisition of data is not subject to warrants or courts, as is the case with U.S. government requests for data from Facebook or any other entity; Their privacy policy notes data may be shared as well: while TikTok claims that it is independent from ByteDance and stores data in the U.S. and Singapore, its privacy policy is clear: "We may share your information with a parent, subsidiary, or other affiliate of our corporate group."
- YarickR2 6y agoYou never heard, obviously. Look up Niantic
- tw04 6y agoCare to elaborate? Niantic was spun out of Google. American company with no government funding either from the US or any foreign countries that I see.