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I wonder if TikTok is China's revenge for opium. It's addicting and mindless and keeps our population sedated and lazy.
by mostlysimilar 4y ago
I wonder if TikTok is China's revenge for opium. It's addicting and mindless and keeps our population sedated and lazy.
- User23 4y agoNah, TikTok is something new. Fentanyl is them running opium game.
- nemothekid 4y agoThis take is so interesting; Douyin is the way it is because of government regulation. If the US tried to regulate what you can see on Instagram, many people would cry bloody murder. Bytedance doesn't make Chinese TikTok "educational" from the goodness of their heart. Chinese companies were happy to let teenagers play video games from dusk till dawn until the CCP got involved, not because Tencent wants American teens hooked on league and Chinese teens studying. TikTok is always painted as some masterclass psychological Chinese weapon instead of it just being a failure of our own American government to do anything but stalemate and worry about bathrooms. There is no reason to believe that if TikTok is banned that Instagram wont supplant it in serving up the same garbage to users (except no one would complain because the gripe about TikTok is xenophobia for most people, not any principled stance on entertainment).
- kridsdale2 4y agoIt's worth examining how much of the current failure and stalemating in the US government is the deliberate product of mass foreign psy-op campaigns, conducted significantly via social media, to undermine the quality of the electoral field, and the electorate itself.