This is dumb. Their whole argument is that “anyone can buy information”. That’s not the point. The point is they own the information. And the ownership matters A LOT.
Who owns your information is the biggest scam on the people of our generation. Who owns the information for where you go and what you do can lead to so many problems. See Facebook and Google.
They completely glaze over this and ignore it completely. That also doesn’t account for what they could here if the microphone has access that isn’t common knowledge.
The writer has no idea what is going on.
Tik tok is getting banned because it’s more popular than the American counter parts and has nothing to do with China gathering information.
The author stated china could just buy user data. So the argument of privacy concerns is invalid.
I honestly don’t have strong feelings about the Tik Tok ban/forced sale but one other argument is that the CCP could “pull the strings” and show content to users
I think to myself : “yeah but people will see the propaganda fr what it is immediately.” Then I realize people got mad at RT being removed from providers, Newsmax and FN, as legitimate news sources, etc… funny how they single TT which hasn’t done any of that yet but ignore the others. The fact they consider it’s sale to the US is the ultimate hypocrisy - free market my ass.
Tiktok has done a lot of propaganda already. They just aren’t as clumsy as RT with it.
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It’s also due to media manipulation capabilities by skewed algorithm results. The owners can silently promote any content or agenda, and the average user takes it as valid information. That’s a dangerous power in the hands of a corporation beholden to the Chinese government.
“Poor” media literacy?
Any.
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