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Yes any Chinese owned company is a potential national security risk. CCP is already known to manipulate their citizens with propaganda on their news and media s
by gandutraveler 6y ago
Yes any Chinese owned company is a potential national security risk. CCP is already known to manipulate their citizens with propaganda on their news and media sites. Tiktok gives them that acres to manipulate/meddle in other countries.
What I'm strongly against is handpicking tiktok and wechat. This should be a law passed by congress which effectively limits companies blacklisted countries like China,Iran to US market. I know this defeats the openness of internet but it is indeed a serious threat.
- chrischen 6y ago> Tiktok gives them that acres to manipulate/meddle in other countries. This is a really naïve world view—not that TikTok isn't potentially a channel of propaganda, but that we somehow are free of propaganda in the US. The Trump administration is a source of propaganda. The Democratic party is a source of propaganda. Propaganda is basically any speech from any biased source. The only significant difference between China and the US isn't that one practices propaganda but that China limits their propaganda to only one source. Blacklisting "propaganda" from sources you don't like is in fact censorship. If we start blocking China because we don't like what they are telling us, why stop there? Why not start blocking propaganda from the Trump critics.