Amazon says email banning TikTok from employee phones was ‘sent in error’

In 2018, Bytedance CEO released a public statement after an incident with the CCP censor. In that statement, he promised that Bytedance apps would strengthen "the work of Party construction" and "socialist core values" etc.

https://chinamediaproject.org/2018/04/11/tech-shame-in-the-n...

I don't know how Bytedance as a company can serve CCP interests AND claim to be independent of CCP interference at the same time.

TikTok is a good product, but it may not be a safe product.

More on the dystopian practices of Douyin (TikTok in China): https://twitter.com/Izzy_Niu/status/1280906443273768960 https://twitter.com/JoshuaDummer/status/1280877750245453828

>It feels like the negative reaction to TikTok is so politicized and just comes from a "China bad" attitude.

The Chinese government is actual, literal, evil.

That is not "PoLiTiCaL" or "China Bad".

It is indisputable that the Chinese government:

* is running concentration camps that house over a million people

* exploits forced labor, a polite term for actual literal slavery

* imprisons people arbitrarily for anti-government sentiment

Anyone who says "buh buh facebookz and NSA" to excuse or minimize the actions of the Chinese Communist Party is so incapable of rational thought that they should be shunned and ridiculed.

You are not put on a government watchlist for comparing the President of the United States to a cartoon character and you are not arrested for subversive thought for selling anti-government books.

And no, YouTube telling bigots to GTFO is not the same thing as being arrested for selling books.

The CEO of ByteDance (the firm that owns TikTok) is on the record has having said that it is his intent to deeply cooperate with the Chinese Communist Party to promote its ideals and policies.

It is probably best to take him at his word.

I invite anyone who disagrees to fly to Beijing and walk around Tian An Men Square carrying this book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1423135792/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_...

I will buy the book for you.

edit: or better yet, take a flight to any city in China. Book a room in a hotel and go down to the pool and write out one page about the TianJin explosion, questioning whether or not the offical death count is correct. Then go to a print shop and make a couple hundred copies. Then stand on any busy street corner with a sign that reads: "questions about the TianJin explosion, please take one" (in Chinese, of course).

And here's the kicker: video it and upload it to TikTok.

I won't do it because the Chinese government is evil and I'm scared.

If I had to judge between whether I wanted TikTok or corporate email on my phone, it wouldn't be just about the email. I could live without that. What I really liked, especially back when we actually went into offices, was that I had my calendar available without opening up my laptop, and that it showed the next place I needed to be right on my wrist.

So you will allow an app whose company is tied to a "totalitarian state built on the backbone of censorship and information control" to steal your data? You cannot have a company in China without agreeing to the terms and conditions of the CCP. The CCP is the totalitarian state you are so against. They are actively collecting your data. In realtime. And you don't want that app to be banned because you have a moral ideal to uphold. Great logic!

The jury is still out on whether there was even a hack to begin with. The analysis team claimed they couldn't decrypt WhatsApp messages, so they never actually analyzed any malware at all. HN called them out on that failure:

https://github.com/ddz/whatsapp-media-decrypt

They never responded with an actual malware analysis on the file they claimed might be responsible.

The only evidence left after that was a claim of higher data usage which has to be weighed against the alternate explanation for how this got out:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/martingiles/2020/01/24/report-b...