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EbolaaPancakes t1_j661hp3 wrote

Banning TikTok isn’t about safety of information. All American companies take the exact same data. Banning TikTok is about American companies not being able to compete. Advertisers are flocking to TikTok which is hurting the bottom line of Facebook, Instagram, ect. Tiktoks algorithm is the best in the game and the Americans are too stupid to figure it out.

So instead of competing, these American companies are trying to get it banned. Considering they are some of the largest donors in the country, it’ll happen eventually.

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nsci2ece t1_j6bq9q1 wrote

Honestly given that China blocks so much of the global internet that it's easier to list off what isn't banned nowadays, this seems like a fair way of giving China a taste of their own medicine.

And yes, censorship is a big motivator in China's actions but I strongly suspect that the true #1 priority is to artificially prop up their own domestic offerings (after all the firewall is trivial to bypass). Blocking Google helps Baidu, blocking Facebook helps Renren, blocking Whatsapp helps WeChat, blocking YouTube helps Youku, etc.

I generally am strongly against governments restricting a foreign competitor just to help inferior domestic offerings but in this particular case, tit-for-tat.

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BusyNatural t1_j67wxlv wrote

Ya exactly the companies that are taking data are in America...not China. That's the difference dumbass

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