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US is doing with China what China did with them. American VCs and business men used to criticize and mock Chinese government for it. Since US is following the footsteps of China, I wonder whether Chinese will be doing what US VCs did?
So how will this work? Will there be 2 apps? Tiktok US and Tiktok for the rest of the world?
If it is true that there would be a US-only version, then it sounds little bit ironic - if this kind of thing keeps happening the US would be somehow walled itself just like China...
So is there going to be a US TikTok and a World TikTok?
As I currently recide in a country famous for blocking access to websites, I follow these developments as closely as I can. Whatever happens, it's probably going to be a recipe on how to force all foreign providers to act the way the local government wants. These days the theme is forcing on the ant-gay stance, they managed to force Netflix a show that had a gay character in it. Besides that charade, they passed laws…
A few days ago Pompeo warned that CCP might change "us" (outside PRC in this context). It seems, however, that U.S. might be the first to be changed.
US is doing with China what China did with them. American VCs and business men used to criticize and mock Chinese government for it. Since US is following the footsteps of China, I wonder whether Chinese will be doing what US VCs did?
Crazy that one person can ban something over 1/4 the US population uses every day. The implications of that are staggering.
(for any politically trigger fingered voters who think this opinion is derived based on current administration, you would be incorrect. I do not think something like this should ever be decided by a single person, it should go through congress and if a new law or decision is the result of that, the party which is to be banned should have the ability to make their case to SCOTUS)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
"TikTok China" exists already, it's Douyin. It was there first (2016). Bytedance created TikTok as "international" Douyin in 2017, then merged it with musical.ly.
Hidden forces behind Toutiao: China’s content king - https://www.ycombinator.com/library/3x-hidden-forces-behind-... is an interesting read.
2 reasons for the meteoric rise:
Super duper aggressive marketing spend, akin Apple's iphone rollout.
A long going murmur about them using funny accounting to drive their valuation into stratosphere, and use it to raise money.
"Machine learning" and everything else all fluff.
I can pretty much imagine something akin to page rank for videos being used, with some perceptrons sprinkled on top.
US is doing with China what China did with them. American VCs and business men used to criticize and mock Chinese government for it. Since US is following the footsteps of China, I wonder whether Chinese will be doing what US VCs did?
China shouldn't expect a free pass while it continues to abuse global trading.
At what point do the big tech companies see the real threat of Trump and begin actively campaigning against him? Feels like they have immense power if they decided to act politically.
One can assume they already are. By virtue of having a disproportionate representation of one political party within their ranks (which they do), you can argue that a lot of their decision making (however benign/simple/small) will fall in line with that parties platform, or end up promoting that party in some way. Right now from my point of view, it absolutely looks like the big social-media companies like Youtube/Tw…
Multi billion dollar porn industry with no barrier to entry as far as viewer age where the youth are concerned but a dance app is worrying. I suspect you sound like your out-of-touch parents did when you were a kid.