TikTok’s Beijing roots fuel censorship suspicion as it builds an US audience(washingtonpost.com)
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TikTok’s Beijing roots fuel censorship suspicion as it builds an US audience
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/15/tiktoks-beijing-roots-fuel-censorship-suspicion-it-builds-huge-us-audience/
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Facebook et. al. implement a ton of censorship. You can be banned in seconds for posting content they deem offensive, even if it's not threatening / obscene. Why would we expect any other social network to not also have censorship? Why is Chinese censorship going to be any worse for Americans than their own?
Because the topics that China can censor can influence American election outcomes.
Wait, I guess Facebook et. al. can influence them with censorship, too. [1]
1. https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-google-search-bia...
Wait, I guess Facebook et. al. can influence them with censorship, too. [1]
1. https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-google-search-bia...
What if the American election outcome actually just does, in reality, reflect the will of Americans? What if they really do want Trump, and it wasn't some kind of scam?
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in communist china, television watches you -- hmmmm this is well outside of Orwell territory by now because it would've been unheard of for the governments of his super-states to spy on each others' citizens!