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Comparing tiktok to the post office circa 1940 is… an odd choice. Tiktok is more like a foreign power owning playboy and mad magazine. People making dumb vide
by colechristensen 4y ago
Comparing tiktok to the post office circa 1940 is… an odd choice.
Tiktok is more like a foreign power owning playboy and mad magazine. People making dumb videos for a laugh isn’t critical communications infrastructure it’s entertainment. Banning ZTE and Huawei makes sense… but if your culture and infrastructure is so sensitive that Chinese ownership of dumb entertainment is a threat… you’ve really already lost.
If tiktok as foreign spyware is a problem, ban the mechanisms of surveillance, everyone does it and it’s not only a problem when China is in control of the data.
- trunnell 4y agoPeople underestimate the power of TikTok to influence opinion. Strangely, TikTok makes up a large part of the "information diet" for a lot of people. It's tough to find a great analog from 1930, but I think the postal service analogy is in the ballpark.
- pasquinelli 4y agono, it's not. "information diet" is not the point. the postal service was the mechinism by which information traveled. a person's information diet is what they choose to pay attention to, communications infrastructure is how information moves.