What does your contact at ByteDance think the CCP staff does in the ByteDance offices all day? Why does the CCP need a board seat? These companies are coordina

What does your contact at ByteDance think the CCP staff does in the ByteDance offices all day? Why does the CCP need a board seat? These companies are coordinated enough to keep out mentions of Tiananmen Square or Xi as Poo from Chinese users. If they can drop politically sensitive content in particular regions, they can boost political content in other regions, right? Whether or not they actually try to put their thumb on the scale today doesn’t really matter. That’s the nature of a security risk. The Conversation had a pretty good article earlier this year on how (in some ways) there's no real separation between the government and companies in China. https://theconversation.com/is-tiktoks-parent-company-an-agent-of-the-chinese-state-in-china-inc-its-a-little-more-complicated-225749 https://theconversation.com/is-tiktoks-parent-company-an-age...