Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he’s going to put together an investor group to buy TikTok after the House passed a bill that would ban the popular video app in the U.S. if its China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake.
The powerful claim that Tiktok supposedly needs to be divested or banned due to both it’s CCP control and it’s effective algorithmic ability to sway US minds.
This seems more like jealousy than security related, as is exampled by the disinterest in actual digital privacy legislation for social media, which would hurt America’s rich. Or alternatively just forcing TikTok to put a big warning not to trust content due to CCP ownership, instead of divest or ban.
They also seem to ignore the fact that US minds (and most everywhere else) seem to be so easy to currently manipulate, and have no interest in improving education to teach how to reduce potential manipulation.
So, after lobbying the government to force a sale of something that can manipulate US voter minds, a former Trump official and stooge wants to buy [edit: at a forced fire sale too] this algorithm that can manipulate US minds.
The divesting push and this purchase push are obviously part of the same effort.
US politicians don’t want the Chinese to control you; but US politicians and businesspeople very much DO want to use this Chinese tech on you for their own purposes. Otherwise, divest would not be an option.
Because the CCP prefers to indoctrinate their population themselves, and puts road blocks to prevent foreign companies from doing so.
America doesn’t, or at least hasn’t, until now.
And American leadership isn’t against foreign governments indoctrinating US citizens via social media. They are against not being able to PROFIT from it.
TikTok is private, controlled by the CCP, and closed sourced.
Trump toadie in this article isn’t trying to shut down the indoctrination. He wants to buy and use it, take the code out and use it everywhere as well as to sell it to the highest bidders, which will likely be more autocrats.
I neither care nor want Facebook et al trying to reshape Chinese minds, though it has no relevance to this point anyway.
And pointing out that the Chinese don’t allow things America does is not the win you think it is here, (ra ra Team America f*ck yeah and what not). If you like how the Chinese do it, go there and enjoy. It’s your life.
The powerful claim that Tiktok supposedly needs to be divested or banned due to both it’s CCP control and it’s effective algorithmic ability to sway US minds.
This seems more like jealousy than security related, as is exampled by the disinterest in actual digital privacy legislation for social media, which would hurt America’s rich. Or alternatively just forcing TikTok to put a big warning not to trust content due to CCP ownership, instead of divest or ban.
They also seem to ignore the fact that US minds (and most everywhere else) seem to be so easy to currently manipulate, and have no interest in improving education to teach how to reduce potential manipulation.
So, after lobbying the government to force a sale of something that can manipulate US voter minds, a former Trump official and stooge wants to buy [edit: at a forced fire sale too] this algorithm that can manipulate US minds.
The divesting push and this purchase push are obviously part of the same effort.
US politicians don’t want the Chinese to control you; but US politicians and businesspeople very much DO want to use this Chinese tech on you for their own purposes. Otherwise, divest would not be an option.
so why aren’t US companies allowed to operate in the same manner in China?
Because the CCP prefers to indoctrinate their population themselves, and puts road blocks to prevent foreign companies from doing so.
America doesn’t, or at least hasn’t, until now.
And American leadership isn’t against foreign governments indoctrinating US citizens via social media. They are against not being able to PROFIT from it.
TikTok is private, controlled by the CCP, and closed sourced.
Trump toadie in this article isn’t trying to shut down the indoctrination. He wants to buy and use it, take the code out and use it everywhere as well as to sell it to the highest bidders, which will likely be more autocrats.
I neither care nor want Facebook et al trying to reshape Chinese minds, though it has no relevance to this point anyway.
And pointing out that the Chinese don’t allow things America does is not the win you think it is here, (ra ra Team America f*ck yeah and what not). If you like how the Chinese do it, go there and enjoy. It’s your life.
yea sadly agreed - oh yea didn’t mean it like ra ra america #1, just hate walled gardens in general.
China is the goal for US progression?
You wanna use China as the example we should aspire to legislate like?
na europe probably