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U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisition of Musical.ly

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Re: U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisition of Musical.ly

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Post by drharby »

cblades wrote: post #8
DiabloD3 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly, I think it's more "You know what happens when you piss off the US gov, Youtube?" (Gov shoots TikTok, to make an example) "That's what. Now get back to work." Youtube has done a lot of stupid things lately that really do feel like it is an external political agenda being forced on them, not an internal one being forced by misguided placation of shareholders.

Could you expand on some of the things youtube has done that you believe might be the result of external political pressure?

YT has been known to remove selfrepair videos or demonization of said videos.

Re: U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisition of Musical.ly

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Post by root_axis »

drharby wrote: post #11
cblades wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you expand on some of the things youtube has done that you believe might be the result of external political pressure?

YT has been known to remove selfrepair videos or demonization of said videos.

Huh? Since when? This sounds really odd to me because my dad is obsessed with DIY and self-repair videos on YouTube and has never had a problem finding tons of such content to watch daily.

Re: U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisition of Musical.ly

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Post by duxup »

drharby wrote: post #11
cblades wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you expand on some of the things youtube has done that you believe might be the result of external political pressure?

YT has been known to remove selfrepair videos or demonization of said videos.

Does that sound like a political pressure thing or just the usual "company complaints / files bs reports and YT complies"?

I'm not at all convinced there is any large scale love for YouTube as far as US policy goes.

Re: U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisition of Musical.ly

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Post by zigzaggy »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #3

YouTube: That's a nice video streaming business you got there TikTok. A shame if anything ever happened to it.

Maybe this explains where all those lobbying $$ are going. If you can’t beat China at market manipulation, then join ‘em!

Re: U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisition of Musical.ly

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Post by judge2020 »

AWildC182 wrote: post #13

Does anyone have any insight into their revenue model? How are they succeeding where Vine failed or are they still just riding investor capital?

They're trying to make them more interactive with things like "challenges" and making them look like regular [usually funny] videos.

It's still super easy to skip by them.

Re: U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisition of Musical.ly

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Post by bredren »

It was clear to me how threatened Facebook was by TikTok when I brought it up with an employee in June.

They kept mentioning infinite scroll, and that everyone was supposed to be thinking about how to incorporate that into product.

After zuck discussed TikTok directly recently, I’m not surprised google and fb lobbyists would press for this investigation.

One question I have, is the real-time interests of millions of 16-24 yo Americans reported back to the Chinese government a national security concern?

Re: U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisition of Musical.ly

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Post by josefresco »

oogali wrote: post #9
situational87 wrote: post #2

After the US claimed that Huawei was a national security threat only to drop this claim completely when China started cooperating on trade talks I honestly don't know what to believe anymore.

I'm not sure what you're referring to in reference to "drop this claim completely". FCC is actively pursuing removal of Huawei and ZTE equipment under a threat to national security. https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/28/fcc-rules-huawei-zte/

> I'm not sure what you're referring to in reference to "drop this claim completely".

Probably in reference to this: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/01/business/dealbook/huawei-...

Re: U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisition of Musical.ly

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Post by nknealk »

I highly recommend folks listen to recent episodes of Ben Thompson’s exponent podcast where he discusses TikTok and its influence in the USA.

He makes the point that US consumers become subject to Chinese censorship policies when using the platform while China outright bans or heavily restricts American companies from operating (eg google search, Facebook).

Re: U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisition of Musical.ly

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Post by taobility »

AWildC182 wrote: post #13

Does anyone have any insight into their revenue model? How are they succeeding where Vine failed or are they still just riding investor capital?

It's similar like Instagram. In your video feed, it would mix some promoted videos.
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