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Just makes no sense that this app has been given so much leeway here in the states when it has been proven time and time again that the Chinese government is us
by josh_carterPDX 4y ago
Just makes no sense that this app has been given so much leeway here in the states when it has been proven time and time again that the Chinese government is using TikTok as a way to track US citizens and to influence our young people.
Also, Douyin (owned by the same company as TikTok) focuses on education in China while TikTok promotes the dumbest videos in the states. As the article below so eloquently articulates, "TikTok is making you dumb."
https://www.opindia.com/2022/07/tiktok-china-engineering-other-countries-porn-twerking/ https://www.opindia.com/2022/07/tiktok-china-engineering-oth...
- wongarsu 4y agoIs "influencing young people" not covered under freedom of speech? Sure, freedom of speech has limits on harmful speech and such, but I think outlawing something on the basis that it's intended to dumb people down would be an interesting case with potentially far-reaching consequences.
- titanomachy 4y agoPretty sloppy journalism, if you can even call it that. They don’t make any effort to verify the core claim of Chinese and US TikTok having different types of content. They don’t even cite a primary source, only secondary ones like Tucker Carlson.