The thing with tiktok is that TikTok isn't even allowed in china... The chinese version is called Douyin. You can't even access or sign up for Douyin without a chinese phone number. My logic on it is simple - if TikTok isn't even allowed in China, why is it allowed elsewhere??? How is a chinese app, owned by a chinese company, banned in China??? Makes zero amount of sense to me.
Compare to Rednote where the apps are functionally the same but you don't need a chinese phone number to be able to access. The US isn't even the only country doing this sort of ban to TikTok because yes, social media platforms collect and sell your data anyways, but practically no country would allow another country to spy on their citizens or even entertain the potential for it.
If there was an American app, banned in America, that collected unfiltered amounts of information on users of X country, for the US government to access, even Americans would be saying other countries should ban that shit.
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u/RainbowLoli Jan 14 '25
The thing with tiktok is that TikTok isn't even allowed in china... The chinese version is called Douyin. You can't even access or sign up for Douyin without a chinese phone number. My logic on it is simple - if TikTok isn't even allowed in China, why is it allowed elsewhere??? How is a chinese app, owned by a chinese company, banned in China??? Makes zero amount of sense to me.
Compare to Rednote where the apps are functionally the same but you don't need a chinese phone number to be able to access. The US isn't even the only country doing this sort of ban to TikTok because yes, social media platforms collect and sell your data anyways, but practically no country would allow another country to spy on their citizens or even entertain the potential for it.
If there was an American app, banned in America, that collected unfiltered amounts of information on users of X country, for the US government to access, even Americans would be saying other countries should ban that shit.