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Looks like TikTok is slowly imploding. I know there's plenty of political implications and a lot of discussion here is on that (which is interesting in its own right), but I wonder if there's opportunity here for a potential competitor.
US would destroy anything not originating from its soil. Pathetic.
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I don't think any mid-large company allows 2 anymore. Access to company resources always comes with an MDM policy.
You are wrong to think that. I wish I could name the companies.
Looks like TikTok is slowly imploding. I know there's plenty of political implications and a lot of discussion here is on that (which is interesting in its own right), but I wonder if there's opportunity here for a potential competitor.
It appears to me that TikTok is just a perpetuation of exclusivity in Social Networks (the same way kids exited FB when their parents signed up) ...
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That's not new though, which I think is what the poster is pointing to. China has always been an economic competitor and has been violating human rights for a very long time. There seems to be more attention on it now though.
Because their GDP is growing and at the current pace they will pass the USA around 2025. That's why the USA cares now. Left unchecked, China will soon be the biggest economy in the world. The USA doesn't want that.
Nothing wrong with having another superpower surpass you but China is not the superpower anyone wants leading the world given their track record.
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I would like to know what US laws TikTok has violated first.
Yeah, not to defend Tik-Tok, China, or spyware in general, but it's ironic that nobody has a problem with Google, Facebook, and other American companies tracking everything people do, but when a Chinese company starts doing it, it's suddenly a big problem. But then again, TikTok probably doesn't answer their subpoenas...
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Which ones and what is your threat model?
The threat model of the US government, or a US company spying on a US citizen is, to the citizen, about as harmful as the Chinese government spying on them. Actually moreso, in the case of the US government.
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Apple earns a lot of money from China, so difficult for them to do something which irritates the Chinese government. Google behaves the same way, even though they have no income from China right now, but I think they are secretly hopefully of dragonfly.
They don't have to ban it on "Chinese Spyware" terms, they could just ban it on normal "spyware" terms. The fact that tiktok is Chinese is incidental, and not necessarily an indictment on all Chinese apps.