How is TikTok worse than Facebook or any other popular western app? If TikTok is spyware, then all the apps are spyware. TikTok has misinformation? People get addicted? It’s bad for your mental health? But that goes for all social media.
As I see it—the “problem” is that TikTok isn’t owned by America. It’s the only real difference. The rest are low-effort attempts at making TikTok look bad to the public to legitimize taking actions which aren’t actually acceptable.
Edit: I think I was a bit wrong. They likely don’t care who owns TikTok, but at the moment they can’t control what’s shared on there, which makes it more difficult to manipulate and control public opinion.
I don’t think the “US censorship community” had any problem banning things shared on TikTok. They could just say “If you don’t ban the Bin Ladin letter discussion, we take it as a reason to invigorate our banning efforts”.
How is TikTok worse than Facebook or any other popular western app? If TikTok is spyware, then all the apps are spyware. TikTok has misinformation? People get addicted? It’s bad for your mental health? But that goes for all social media.
As I see it—the “problem” is that TikTok isn’t owned by America. It’s the only real difference. The rest are low-effort attempts at making TikTok look bad to the public to legitimize taking actions which aren’t actually acceptable.
Edit: I think I was a bit wrong. They likely don’t care who owns TikTok, but at the moment they can’t control what’s shared on there, which makes it more difficult to manipulate and control public opinion.
I don’t think the “US censorship community” had any problem banning things shared on TikTok. They could just say “If you don’t ban the Bin Ladin letter discussion, we take it as a reason to invigorate our banning efforts”.