U.S. looking at banning Chinese social media apps, including TikTok
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#2Will US abolish all other Chinese digital presence including Alibaba etc?
Re: U.S. looking at banning Chinese social media apps, including TikTok
#3So this is how it's going to happen - with every country banning each other's social media apps, we will enter into a future of digital borders, limited speech, and broken international relations. All in the name of making sure people don't dare think some wrongthink.
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#4So this is how it's going to happen - with every country banning each other's social media apps, we will enter into a future of digital borders, limited speech, and broken international relations. All in the name of making sure people don't dare think some wrongthink.
TikTok can already limit your speech. If you "wrong think" on their you would be booted.
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#5So this is how it's going to happen - with every country banning each other's social media apps, we will enter into a future of digital borders, limited speech, and broken international relations. All in the name of making sure people don't dare think some wrongthink.
It creates quite an opening for decentralized social networks, which I am very much looking forward to, because it means I can control the feed again.
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#6Will US abolish all other Chinese digital presence including Alibaba etc?
The US government almost certainly doesn't have the power to do that. (It's not tremendously clear how they'd even be able to ban Tiktok; they'd have a hard time getting Apple and Google to take it off the app store and an impossible time convincing Internet providers to block it.)
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#7So this is how it's going to happen - with every country banning each other's social media apps, we will enter into a future of digital borders, limited speech, and broken international relations. All in the name of making sure people don't dare think some wrongthink.
I think the issue has nothing to do with it being Chinese, but with the extent at which it swallows up data on Americans. Why even bother sending spies to another country and making plans for infiltration when you can get them to download a full spying suite under the guise of social media?
The problem is this opens a whole new can of worms regarding Facebook and other American social media. Other countries are equally justified in banning them for the same reason.
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#8So this is how it's going to happen - with every country banning each other's social media apps, we will enter into a future of digital borders, limited speech, and broken international relations. All in the name of making sure people don't dare think some wrongthink.
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#9So this is how it's going to happen - with every country banning each other's social media apps, we will enter into a future of digital borders, limited speech, and broken international relations. All in the name of making sure people don't dare think some wrongthink.
I think the issue has nothing to do with it being Chinese, but with the extent at which it swallows up data on Americans. Why even bother sending spies to another country and making plans for infiltration when you can get them to download a full spying suite under the guise of social media? The problem is this opens a whole new can of worms regarding Facebook and other American social media. Other countries are equal…
>I think the issue has nothing to do with it being Chinese, but with the extent at which it swallows up data on Americans
But it's A-ok when NSA powered/hijacked/collaborated U.S. social media companies do the same to the rest of the world?
I'm pretty sure PRISM didn't just get dismantled after Snowden.
>Why even bother sending spies to another country and making plans for infiltration when you can get them to download a full spying suite under the guise of social media?
Because espionage involves more than just digging up information that is voluntarily put out on social media? I mean if you upload the blueprint of a stealth fighter onto TikTok/Dropbox/Instagram/whatever the fault is yours don't you think?
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#10What would it mean to "ban" an app? Would they force Apple and Google not to distribute it? Would they set up a national firewall?