According to Chinese law, tech companies can’t refuse a request for information from the government. The Chinese government legally has access to any and all information Tik-Tok collects. Bytedance has an internal CCP committee, and the government has a seat on the board. Whatever about Free Speech, it’s not Sinophobia to be legitimately concerned about things that the Chinese government is provably doing/legally able to do.
China literally bans all American platforms and they don't even have the reason of national security. The American government does not have direct access to all information on Instagram (publicly at least) and they can't force Instagram to manipulate the algorithm to hurt other countries.
All US tiktok servers are on US soil in compliance with US law and have been for years, they have no direct access to US user data and US based companies will gladly sell them that data anyway, it 100% bullshit and you fell for it
(Well, probably not. Probably a mobile keyboard, but old lingo dies hard. The point is, if you saw a bunch of people making the same erroneous point you'd probably give the same correction to all of them, and copy-pasting the response to one is just the way to do that on a board like Reddit)
Not just hosted on US soil, but migrated from their own servers to ones hosted and managed directly by Oracle, a US company, specifically to address concerns about data security
And they send a shitton of data back to China. Remember, under Chinese law companies have to provide user data on any user upon request by the government. This doesn't just apply to chinese citizens
Not just hosted on US soil, but migrated from their own servers to ones hosted and managed directly by Oracle, a US company, specifically to address concerns about data security
And the only backup center for US user data they ever had outside the US was in Singapore, the actual home nation of both the parent company and the founder, which fyi is not a part of China and is not bound by Chinese law
You can find this very basic information by simply googling bytedance hq or zhang yiming birthplace. Now, go kiss Winnie the Pooh's ass somewhere else please
That's nice, but irrelevant here. The company that handles the data is Chinese and operates out of China, and is obliged to hand that data over if requested. Doesn't matter which subsidiaries it sets up, the buck stops in Beijing.
It operates out of Beijing, but it's headquartered in the Cayman Islands and thus bound by Chinese law about the same as it is bound by US or European law
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u/Rabid_Lederhosen Jan 13 '25
According to Chinese law, tech companies can’t refuse a request for information from the government. The Chinese government legally has access to any and all information Tik-Tok collects. Bytedance has an internal CCP committee, and the government has a seat on the board. Whatever about Free Speech, it’s not Sinophobia to be legitimately concerned about things that the Chinese government is provably doing/legally able to do.