They all made competitors and then kicked tiktok out of the market. They knew it would be used for counter propaganda so they had to make their own slop for deprogramming after they booted tiktok. I am going to miss my communist shortform slop
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Nah, the reason is just
”Chyna bad and stealing our data! Only Amurican companies are allowed to do that!”, everything else is a bonus.
I for one actually think this notion of banning TikTok has some interesting consequences. JD Vance is supposedly anti-big tech and he wants to promote smaller companies for 'free market competition'. This is also at a point in time where the US is pushing to regulate Google, with both the present Biden admin and the future Trump admin on board.
It's true that this is to service the middle-class, bolster American nationalism, and strengthen American domestic production/industry, as well as promote the idea of Big Capital against Small Capital (Big Capital is "woke" and "DEI", Small Capital is freedom). It is also true that the US, especially since the Biden admin, wants to offer some serious restructuring of the global and domestic economy.
I would not dismiss their arguments against China so sloppily if I were you. Public image is all rhetoric, it gets people riled up and excited. You shouldn't mistake that for reality. There is something much bigger going on underneath the surface that I don't think any left-wing groups/orgs in the US are capable of preparing for, even in the best case scenario...
JD Vance is the stooge of Peter Thiel, a tech giant who's the founder of Paypal and Palantir. He's lying about being anti-big tech, if anything he just wants big tech to be ideologically fascist, like Musk's Twitter.
They’re all lying. The American alphabet agencies can’t control tik tok which is why they want it banned. Can’t allow Americans to think freely or critically, must maintain manufactured consent.