But this is short sighted.
I’ve spent a lot of time looking to TikTok from a technical and geopolitical standpoint.
It absolutely silences and manipulates viewpoints and voices in opposition to the Chinese gov. It also collects private data.
At the same time, massively popular US and EU social apps are collecting similar data, abusing it, and frequently are intentionally and unintentionally abused to suppress opposition voices and spread disinformation.
We should all probably quit every social network, today.
Unfortunately, they already hobbled traditional news and changed how we interact.
We have to look at the big picture, including the long games our adversaries are playing with national and international information and supply chains.
*fin*