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An all-American clone of an app like TikTok is not much better than TikTok itself imo, all things considered There are deeper and farther-reaching issues here
by walleeee 4y ago
An all-American clone of an app like TikTok is not much better than TikTok itself imo, all things considered
There are deeper and farther-reaching issues here than competition between nation-states for information supremacy
Effects of regular use on cognition and attention span, data harvesting, pervasive advertising, etc
This affects humanity at large and the US particularly profoundly, as the US is friendlier to the most pernicious media business models than nearly anywhere else, and we are among the world's most addicted to new media
National sovereignty/security concerns are understandable and legitimate. This is a criticism many outside the US have been leveling at relentless American cultural export for decades
- est 4y ago> An all-American clone of an app like TikTok is little better than the Chinese version imo Tiktok is the all-American clone of Chinese version Douyin.
- walleeee 4y agoan American clone would presumably not be built by a Chinese company
- est 4y ago> all-American clone Except every US tech company has some Chinese personals, H-1B or not? Suppose there is a US company that builds and runs a Tiktok alternative. Should the staff be screened by race and birth certificates to make the company "pure American"?
- walleeee 4y agoCan you help me understand the point you're making with regard to my original comment?
- est 4y agoThe point is what defines "all-american"? all-American funds? all-American CEOs? all-American staff?
- walleeee 4y agook, I see maybe one relevant factor is proximity to a nation's power centers or governing bodies, i.e. a company might be judged more or less "American" or "Chinese" not on the basis of its staff's diversity but on the influence of the state in its operations and strategy my intention wasn't at all to suggest some notion of nationalist purity, it was to emphasize the social and psychological effects of new media platforms on the human mind regardless of country of origin or affiliation
- NickC25 4y agoDouyin was a clone of Music.ly , an American developed app.
- est 4y agohttps://techcrunch.com/2017/11/09/chinas-toutiao-is-buying-musical-ly-in-a-deal-worth-800m-1b/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/09/chinas-toutiao-is-buying-m...
- maccolgan 4y ago“American” is a granfalloon.
- walleeee 4y agothat's a big and messy bag of worms and given the contextual ambiguity I'm having a hard time agreeing or disagreeing with any conviction, although I do agree American identity is in many of its deployments a pretty empty concept is there anything in particular about my comment that makes you say so?