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Being able to influence geopolitics and orchestrate a pro-CCP feed to target demographics is a long, subtle plan that spans decades and TikTok is just the curre
by genidoi 6y ago
Being able to influence geopolitics and orchestrate a pro-CCP feed to target demographics is a long, subtle plan that spans decades and TikTok is just the current instrument that the CCP has in their arsenal, and it's very likely early into that plan.
It's a little naive to think that there would be a red herring found with a packet inspection, though the author deserves credit for settling doubts.
- FooBarWidget 6y agoAny foreign app/website can be used to feed foreign propaganda. Should we ban all foreign apps/websites? Where does it end?
- skywhopper 6y agoWhy limit your worries to “foreign” apps? Assuming you’re American, Facebook and Twitter can and do carry a ton of “foreign” propaganda.
- ClikeX 6y agoAs a non-American. Facebook and Twitter spam me with American politics all the time.
- ganfortran 6y agoWould you categorize Facebook/Twitter then, as the tool for US government to influence geopolitics on its behalf?
- genidoi 6y agoYou can post anything you like about Trump on FB/Twitter and you won't have federal police erase you 2 days later. The threshold for that in China is comparing it's current president to a cartoon character.
- ganfortran 6y agoThis is not about US domestic politics. Will the US government use FB/Twitter to delete the supporters' posts for the candidates it doesn't like?