This will be one of the most interesting elections in US history...
TikTok:
History of issues noted in the press:
Exercise caution when using Chinese apps like TikTok
BY REP. MICHAEL MCCAUL (R-TEXAS), OPINION CONTRIBUTOR —
01/13/20 02:02 PM EST 45THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL
Chairman Xi Jinping and his CCP are on the march to grow their influence and power around the world. Technology and data are a key enabler for their malign efforts. We must recognize the inherent r…
thehill.com
What’s going on with TikTok, China, and the US government?
The wildly popular video app’s ties to China are prompting some US users and politicians to panic.
By Rebecca Jennings@rebexxxxa
Dec 16, 2019, 8:40am EST
The wildly popular video app’s ties to China are prompting some US users and politicians to panic.
www.vox.com
The Federalist even quotes vox... lol hows that... "Vox outlined two major concerns about TikTok in December.."
"TikTok collects data. As an app owned by Chinese company ByteDance, the CCP can access it. TikTok claims U.S. data is stored outside of China. But that’s “largely irrelevant,” as Alex Stamos, director of the Stanford Internet Observatory told the Washington Post last fall. “The leverage the government has over the people who have access to that data, that’s what’s relevant.” "
Communist China hampered the dissemination of information that could have prevented a pandemic, and we're spending the resultant quarantine with TikTok.
thefederalist.com
TikTok’s owner is helping China’s campaign of repression in Xinjiang, report finds
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New evidence of links between the security apparatus and China’s biggest tech companies comes just days after TikTok shut down the account of an American teenager who’d sought to highlight China’s human rights abuses in Xinjiang during what began as a makeup video.
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After widespread condemnation for censoring an American, TikTok backtracked and reactivated the account of Feroza Aziz, a 17-year-old high school junior in New Jersey."
The comments from
Reddit CEO and co-founder Steve Huffman were some of the more controversial offered up during a panel discussion with former public policy exec Elliot Schrage and former Facebook VP of Product Sam Lessin. During a brief conversation about the feature innovations of TikTok, Huffman pushed back hard on the notion that Silicon Valley startups had something to learn from the app.
“Maybe I’m going to regret this, but I can’t even get to that level of thinking with them,” Huffman said. “Because I look at that app as so fundamentally parasitic, that it’s always listening, the fingerprinting technology they use is truly terrifying, and I could not bring myself to install an app like that on my phone.”
“I actively tell people, ‘Don’t install that spyware on your phone,'” he later added.
Ref:
TikTok is one of the hottest social media platforms but the CEO of Reddit had some harsh words for the popular app, calling it "fundamentally parasitic"
techcrunch.com
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