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Are you implying that China exerts less control over social media than America?

• im3w1l 2y ago
  No. Rather I think that the diversity is very valuable. Even if Tiktok by itself is worse, it makes the overall mix better. A non-American buyer could also be a solution, again from my perspective. There is a very striking example that happened recently. The Israel-Palestine war. What did Tiktok and Reddit do? Tiktok lets people see the atrocities being commited. Reddit on the other hand decided to go full Islamophobic. I literally saw a comment on reddit just now saying we need 500 terrorists shooting immigrants in my country. This would never have been allowed before, but they allow it now. It's a blatant example of reddit manipulating the debate to achieve foreign policy objectives at the expense of my country. And now America is using strong-arm tactics to forcefully acquire Tiktok, expanding the control.
  • nrb 2y ago
    I agree on the diversity principle, seems healthy to me. But disagree that America is forcing direct control here, or that China is anything but a worst-case scenario. I don't think most folks will be concerned who operates it as long as there's a semblance of accountability, which does not exist today.
  • FMecha 2y ago
    >A non-American buyer could also be a solution, again from my perspective. Read: EU-region buyer. The first things I thought is if TikTok gets bought by a Japanese or Russian company. ByteDance probably would try to make a Sino-Japanese geopolitical scene out of it, while having it bought by Russians would raise Russian propaganda eyebrows.