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We are at war and data collection and social media influence serves as the ammunition and propaganda. If Bytedance is a truly innocent third party, then they c
by zozin 6y ago
We are at war and data collection and social media influence serves as the ammunition and propaganda. If Bytedance is a truly innocent third party, then they completely misread the situation when they spent billions of dollars to expand outside of China and this amounts to a business failing.
The more likely situation is that the CCP is intimately involved in Bytedance's data collection, what becomes trending, what videos get promoted, etc. They crossed the proverbial line and now they are punished for it a la ZTE, Huawei, etc.
You can say goodbye to any Chinese, Russian, etc. app ever taking off in the "West" in the future. Scrutiny will be ever more stringent as the war continues.
- Barrin92 6y agoThe West isn't uniform on this at all. Eastern Europe and up to Greece and Italy have taken a fairly conciliatory stance on China, in particular the latter which joined OBOR. Western Europe is more mixed but still I very much doubt you'll see a TikTok ban in Germany (and neither a Huawei one), and even in the UK I'm not sure if we'll see a software ban. I think it's more likely we'll see a differentiated response. Strongest in the US and Australia maybe Japan (although that's an unclear case as well), and mixed to not at all in Europe. On the global stage in general the situation is very different and for that reason alone China's global expansion has made sense. The few billion dollars they've invested in the US have given them extremely valuable knowledge.
- eunos 6y ago> maybe Japan I suspect Japan's stance (and Australia) is more about U.S. alignment. Being in the pacific the situation is more precarious.