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The only argument that speaks for allowing an state controlled media company from a hostile foreign power to operate in your country, in my opinion, is to trust
by lobochrome 2y ago
The only argument that speaks for allowing an state controlled media company from a hostile foreign power to operate in your country, in my opinion, is to trust in the ultimate wisdom of the consumer.
- throawayonthe 2y ago[dead]
- juanani 2y ago[dead]
- ksynwa 2y agoByteDance employs ex-NATO officials at high ranking positions. So it's tough to say if they are being wholly by a "hostile foreign power" as you put it.
- mensetmanusman 2y agoDoesn’t counteract active CCP leadership.
- rockskon 2y agoThus whole thing reeks of boomer Chinese and U.S. spies believing in magical social media mind control powers and fighting a war over something that doesn't exist in any such meaningful form. It's idiocy borne from octogenarian hysteria.
- mensetmanusman 2y agoGeofenced psychological warfare over TikTok is happening on the Russia/ukraine border. No need to go all conspiracy.
- rockskon 2y ago> psychological warfare Really does sound like you're dressing up a pig treating social media recommendations as akin to warfare.
- ksynwa 2y agoI get where you are coming from but I feel you are trivialising it a bit. It is only social media recommendations but I think they are a tool in information warfare. I won't cite any sources so feel free to disregard but social media is a major driver of information consumption today and it can be used to serve ideological ends if those who control it desire so. I don't know anything about the geofencing psyop bit though.
- rockskon 2y agoIf anything I'm not trivializing it enough. There are dozens of companies with vastly more cultural literacy vying to manipulate you into buying goods every day. Amidst the sea of "look at my notification! Look at my recommendation! ANNOYING clap AD clap TIME!!!!!!!", why do you think some random overly angry/insulting recommendation with a bizarre or nonsensical framing coming from China is going to change minds rather than be ignored? Foreign propaganda tends to gain traction when laundered through someone people pay attention to. (E-)celebrities, political figures, charismatic activist figureheads. Not a recommendation algorithm endlessly exploited by advertisers to get a tiny crumb of attention from. The Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense have minimal literacy in the economics of attention and it shows.
- wmf 2y agoEh, the way lobbying works is that you hire ex-government people to work against the interests of the government they used to work for.
- ksynwa 2y agoWhy? You could just hire a non-ex-goverment employee to do that. At least they won't come with the ideological baggage that would prevent them from engaging in sabotaging their own government. Also you paint the picture of these officials as self-serving turncoats. It might be true of some but I find it hard to believe that it is an acceptable generalisation.
- AlbertCory 2y ago> tough to say if they are being wholly by a "hostile foreign power" no, it isn't tough. Your ex-NATO officials are employees who lack the power to say No to the CCP.