I do not buy that tiktok is an instrument of the state.
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It's already been used that way.https://stratechery.com/2019/the-china-cultural-clash/ …
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As have Twitter, Facebook and Google inside China.
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None of those companies are allowed to operate inside China. Please dig a little deeper before you take your public stance. There is no moral equivalence here.
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That was my point.
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I don't get it. Are you saying that the CCP wouldn't dare compromise TikTok because getting it banned from the U.S. would be a bad outcome?
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I'm saying that the Chinese government doesn't allow free expression from any company in China so what they make TikTok do in China is not a good predictor of what they'd make it do outside China. The idea that TikTok is a sinister move by the CCP to infiltrate the US is junk.
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Replying to @seldo @Jer_Diamond and
Assigning sinister motives to every Chinese company because the CCP might make them do bad things is the Sinophobia I am referring to.
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That's not sinophobia, but a correct analysis of how power works in China right now. It's analogous to distrusting LiveJournal's motives because of capture by the Russian state.
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I disagree with that analysis.
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