I wonder how true Thompson's assertion about a war of ideology between China and western values is.
Are there any examples of TikTok influencing thinking in a pro-Chinese way via algorithm tuning or direct curation?
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#382Because of the dominantly racist view prevailing in the US: if it is a Chinese company, it must somehow be bad, anti-democracy. If it comes from an American company, then it must be democratic and good (even when it does harm).
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#383Earlier quoted context omitted.
How exactly does using TikTok help China silence millions of camped Uyghurs? If we all switched to Facebook would their voices be heard?
Do you agree that all Chinese companies (even foreign ones operating in China), state owned or not, has to do whatever CCP wants? If you do, you already have the answer. If you don't, I suggest you get to know a bit more about China before CCP's alternative facts become the facts.
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#384I'm not sure how I got sucked into Tiktok but I was quickly hooked. There's something so refreshingly playful, authentic, and raw about so much Tiktok content compared to Instagram. Instagram (explore/discovery) is generally pretty people with pretty things in pretty places. That was fun for a while but it's just not that interesting after a while. I don't need to see more pretty pictures of women doing yoga. I don't…
Here in India, TikTok was massively popular in smaller towns and villages. The content was so different than Instagram. I really thought it was invaluable (TikTok is banned now). For us city dwelling upper middle class people, it gave a rare glimpse into the lives of people less privileged. And it wasn't maudlin or patronizing as a lot of narratives about the poor tend to be. Rather it was fun and authentic. I rememb…
Interesting. In China, TikTok(Douyin) is actually more popular in big cities, and Kuaishou is more popular in smaller towns.
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#385Nitpick, but this man doesn't really seem to understand what "Marxism" means.
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#386Tiktok's parent company, bytedance is incorporated in Cayman islands. It has a Chinese subsidiary operating Douyin in China , and a US subsidiary operating Tiktok in the US. The Chinese national intelligence law is applied to the Chinese subsidiary but not the parent because the parent is not incorporated in China. Hence the US subsidiary is not subjected to Chinese law. If Chinese government demands US data and Byte…
Says every Chinese internet company, they are all "foreign" companies.