Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US

• squid_slime@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  i am not talking about a tipping point, i was focused on the geopolitics in my original comment.

  Anti communist? With everything else we buy from China would you argue America to be pro communist?

  this is the tipping point to be anti-communist? maybe but i’ll be honest, i dont know what you mean by this, the fight against communism has been a steady state of proxy wars, embargoes, surveillance and propaganda campaigns, so i would definitely say banning tiktok sits within embargo and propaganda.

  How about all the US social media platforms that China won’t let in? yea socialism is apposed/untrusting of capitalist products, usually seen as exploitive by the communist this is due in part to the never ending revolution.

  Is that “anti-capitalist?” 100%

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I didn’t argue that we are pro-communist.

    The point of my observation was that the premise of the TikTok sale is “anti-communist” and that it’s being brought up at all against the background of all the existing, deep economic ties between the US and China. IOW the US putting its foot down on TikTok is anti-communist, but accepting everything else gets a pass?

    Funny that you point out the mistrust of (in this context of social media) western products as being exploitative when the Chinese exploitation of data and use of algorithms to manipulate what we see on TikTok is exactly one of the reasons the US wants the sale.

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    • squid_slime@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      you make a good point that Tiktok is doing some shady stuff but meta were court covertly collecting data from Snapchat through unknowing users devices.

      Facebook whistleblowers testimony where she speaks of fb knowing the harm the platform does, and knows that fb targets minors even though Facebook has a minimum age 13.

      should Facebook be banned or at least forced to sell? this is why the fiasco is coming across as anti-communist, an extension of cold war hostilities.

      IOW the US putting its foot down on TikTok is anti-communist, but accepting everything else gets a pass

      Tiktok offers no financial incentive to America unlike Chinese exports, apple are not about to pay a reasonable amount to create an iPhone in America, china is in a pretty good position with its fabrication and engineering, consumer products or even solar panels are far superior to what America can make on a similar budget.

      Funny that you point out the mistrust of (in this context of social media) western products as being exploitative when the Chinese exploitation of data and use of algorithms to manipulate what we see on TikTok is exactly one of the reasons the US wants the sale.

      this is because you view things through a capitalist scope, i am guilty of this too. Facebook as linked in the above article does the same.

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      • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They are not the same. One manipulates and exploits its own country’s citizens for profit, the other exploits and manipulates both its own and citizens of other countries for profit and government data collection.

        While TikTok doesn’t offer financial incentive to any US corporation, it certainly offers incentives to the users of the platform.

        Let’s not move the goalposts/butwhatabout to talking about minors using social media or Chinese manufacturing, that’s too much to get into and keep it focused on the communist/capitalist debate and why TikTok is being treated as it is.

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