The reason why b*nning TikTok is a bad idea
I know this isn’t a tankie post exactly, but this is pretty awful. Now instead of going to an app owned by a company that people just assume is a national security threat, people are now going to a Chinese owned app as they are desperate for alternatives to TikTok.
People are giving data to China directly. This is not some conspiracy, they are doing it because of this TikTok b*n. This is going to show why the ban will be such disaster, and it’s because of shit like this. So in the effort of “bolstering national security” it’ll be made much worse.
Sure, maybe ByteDance is harboring data, but every social media company in America does it, including Facebook, who had a massive leak of private user data back then. And by b*nning TikTok, you opened the door for another Chinese company to take away user data as well. So good job us government.
I know this isn’t a tankie post exactly, but this is pretty awful. Now instead of going to an app owned by a company that people just assume is a national security threat, people are now going to a Chinese owned app as they are desperate for alternatives to TikTok.
People are giving data to China directly. This is not some conspiracy, they are doing it because of this TikTok b*n. This is going to show why the ban will be such disaster, and it’s because of shit like this. So in the effort of “bolstering national security” it’ll be made much worse.
Sure, maybe ByteDance is harboring data, but every social media company in America does it, including Facebook, who had a massive leak of private user data back then. And by b*nning TikTok, you opened the door for another Chinese company to take away user data as well. So good job us government.