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Reddit mods on Chinese owned Reddit just removed a post about Chinese data collection on TikTok. 9.2k upvotes, front page. India got it right: Tiktok is Evil (www.youtube.com)
posted 4 years ago by dreamer1010 4 years ago by dreamer1010 +96 / -1
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– hockeyislife91 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

Also India ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GcsbVhf03w

"Uber is ISIS" LOL

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– ArcturianDeathTrap 1 point 4 years ago +1 / -0

https://www.boredpanda.com/tik-tok-reverse-engineered-data-information-collecting/

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– vanillabluesea -2 points 4 years ago +1 / -3

Admittedly I didn't watch the video. But the part "Tiktok is Evil" of this post's title rubs me the wrong way because nothing is merely one simple black & white thing as "Tiktok is Evil." Allow me to tell a not-so-relevant-to-this-post story.

We all know this:

When the previous US administration issued executive order(s) in 2020 and banned TikTok along with WeChat from the US domestic market; by going after those Chinese companies through the CFIUS, the administration were forcing those Chinese managements to give up and sell the US portions of the companies to American companies.

The administration wanted to stop those Chinese companies sending the data to the CCP controlled servers and obviously they also wanted those newly American controlled companies + the collected data being regulated by the appropriate US laws.

The word was:

With the forced acquisition process mentioned above, another thing the administration hoped was to 'establish' a social media platform in the US that's friendly with (not the US government in general but) the administration, as in the Trump administration.

Eventually, the conditions for the deal were provided by TikTok first which were 'agreed' by the administration. The conditions were said to be almost identical to the conditions when Oracle made the deal to buy TikTok with.

And several American companies showed their interests in the deal, including Snap Inc. (Snapchat) and Pinterest. After all, TikTok, the Chinese short-form video-sharing app has been extremely popular with Generation Z.

Then, something happened:

On Q2 2020, the emails, sent from American investment firms, were circulated among silicon valley CEOs. They stated that said investment firms will not participate in the deal, in any way, shape, or form. BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street were among said investment firms, which together were reported to control somewhere around $15-20 trillion USD in 2019. To give you an idea, the 2019 GDP of China was $14.34 trillion USD and the 2019 GDP of the US was $21.43 trillion USD.

And said American investment firms with other smaller ones + American billionaires went on and donated five times more to the Biden-Harris ticket than they gave the Trump-Pence in the 2020 Election.

So, those investment firms were 'against' the almost-guaranteed-to-be-gold-nuggets deal (and the previous US administration's decision)? No. Of course, it's the factions that are behind said firms were: They said no to the money. Let that sink in for a moment.

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– FondueFerret 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0

you should watch the video, it's worth it :)

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– vanillabluesea 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

Of course! (And watched it! ^^)

We all know harmful effects of watching short video continuously, which have been well documented, as well as how social media is shaping up our mind and even identities.

Besides, TikTok was reported to apparently collect its users' MAC addresses and store them in the CCP controlled servers in China. [LINK] If this won't wake up people, not sure what will.

Since the Biden administration shelved the Oracle-TikTok deal indefinitely last February, [LINK] we should speak up about the importance of managing the US people's data and the TikTok's practice on the issue.

And

for the OP's case with this post's title "Reddit mods removed a post about Chinese data collection on TikTok": To me, it's simply Reddit doing Reddit. No surprise there. -_-'

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