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Ask HN: Why isn't TikTok owned by the U.S. government?
If TikTok is a national security threat, don't we have gov reports of 1) the backdoors of the app 2) detailled understanding of shareholders and their action scope, (3) purchase of shareholders voting power?
Does the U.S. government asks Google to make YouTube shorts better than TikTok?
- Pakdef 4y agoHow do you know they don't?
- frozencell 4y agoI’m looking for proofs of its infiltration.
- liberia 4y agoTikTok is Chinese malware masquerading as a friendly social media app that people use for giggles when waiting for the bus or loafing at work. It’s a Trojan horse firmly embedded in the US with no oversight or regulation. And the amount of data it grabs behind the scenes is astonishing.
- rvz 4y agoCorrect. Not only they collect more invasive data than Facebook does, but it is the fact that they lied about accessing that user data from China already tells you that this thing needs an investigation into both the amount of data it is collecting and the over-worshipped algorithm that uses that data to dictate what is seen and unseen. If they were able to do this to Facebook and fine them for billions, they can also do it to any other social network. Especially, TikTok.
- wiskinator 4y ago|It’s a Trojan horse firmly embedded in the US with no oversight or regulation. Is there any proof to this statement? It's very bold.
- Thetawaves 4y agoDo you need proof that 1 + 1 = 2?
- Thetawaves 4y agoDownvote all you want - the evidence is widely distributed. Failure to acknowledge reality just makes you delusional. [] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32252245 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32252245
- gc22browsing 4y agoThe US govt outsources software development to the big consulting firms. Any one of them would take 5 years and $10B to create an equivalent app. And then it would only run with Microsoft Explorer (not Edge).
- muzani 4y agoI'd bet Meta has/will spend at least 5 years and $10B creating an equivalent app, and they're the (second) best in the world at this.
- ksherlock 4y agoPepperidge Farm remembers when Donald Trump tried to ban Tik Tok and force a sale to Oracle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump–TikTok_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump–TikTok_controvers...
- bediger4000 4y agoEven a blind pig finds an acorn once in a while.
- ffhhj 4y agoBy smell?
- throwntoday 4y agoWhy is it so difficult for people to just say he was right about something? Guess TDS is real.
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- codingdave 4y agoA broken clock is right twice a day. It is still a broken clock.
- gnz11 4y agoTrump wasn’t right by virtue, he was feuding poorly with Xi Jinping on the national stage at the time. It just worked out in his favor that TikTok could be banned on national security reasons. Ellison is/was also a Trump backer, so Oracle being in the mix probably had to do with that.
- bediger4000 4y agoIt was easy to say Trump was right about TikTok. Just for the wrong reasons. There's even a pungent rural metaphor about that situation, which I, as a rural Missourian, used. Being quick on the draw with accusations of "TDS", or "BDS" seems like a tell for insecurity. Being wrong about it is even worse.
- bediger4000 4y agoThat would be socialism.
- xster 4y agoWhy isn't Twitter owned by the Chinese government?
- ceasesurthinko 4y agoBecause Twitter is banned by China and isn't used there.