Tik Tok is unique in the granularity and sheer scope of what it captures, and it is stored on Chinese servers that are legally compelled to make any and all data available to the CCP with no oversight or warrants or anything of the sort.
TikTok is pretty inane, what do you think they can find out that's detrimental; how do you think the data will be used that is malicious?
In a few cases even non-Chinese citizens whose friends became "reachable" for the Chinese government.
TikTok would be an excellent source of information for this practice.
Examples:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/07/fbi-chief-china-threa...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-wray/china-coer...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/12/you-could-end-...
https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/03/21/china-government-threats...
Are non-Chinese surveillance dragnets (Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, etc.) capturing every bit of data imaginable about every nationality's children or adults more palatable?
Just like China, the US is doing whatever it can to maintain its superpower status, and its allies and enemies in check. And it's obvious these days that the US is willing to use the exact same measures that they criticized in the past when they were employed only by China.
You can't do any of that in China.
Um, not in the slightest. There is no united front in the US regarding foreign relations. Trump is left to his own devices without the backing of Congress. That is far far from "doing whatever it can".
America has clear rules in place before stored data can be accessed by the state, with few exceptions.
China has a blanket policy of supplying all data to the state at its request, and there is no independent judiciary or other means of appealing this process.
Instead of Whataboutism, consider looking into why every major nation in the world (bar a few heavily reliant allies) are turning on China as the extent and nature of their policies and intentions has become impossible to ignore. Xi is a large part of this strategic turn in what was already an Orwellian dictatorship - read about his geostrategic goals.
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/fxgi06/not_new_news...
When 17 year olds can “own Twitter” and Facebook just budgets 9 figures for data collection compliance fines, are you sure there’s a bright line distinction in the world that’s not “let’s all agree we’re not the terrible/hated/untrustworthy other”? Is the problem that another sovereign country could coerce a company to provide a service that Facebook provides for money?
1. Chinese companies are extensions of the state. This is not true to the same degree for US or European companies; and
2. China deliberately restricts access to the Chinese market so no foreign company will "win" there. It will always be a Chinese company. This is why companies kowtowing the China is so pointless.
Trade is about reciprocity. Separation from the state is a national security issue. China is not playing by the same rules as everyone else is. The only shocking thing about this is that it's taken what is otherwise the worst president in America's history (and someone who, with his family, should probably all be in jail for various reasons) to demand reciprocity and to point out the obvious.
Yet the carrot of the Chinese market remains for Western companies and those companies have pressured (if not outright bought) their governments to play along in a completely rigged game they cannot win.
The Internet never was "Global", it was always soft and sometimes hard controlled by the US. Now that other countries are applying the same recipe and "winning" all of a sudden that's a problem.
And it really is a problem, but it was a problem since the very beginning of the Internet, or do I need to mention the RSA backdoor, the Windows kernel backdoor, the amazing health of the ECHELON project even decades after the cold war ended?
That administration might be out of office as soon as January 2021.
Edit: Comment submitted before title was changed. Title was originally: "Banning TikTok suggests that the US no longer believes in a global internet."
The US should continue to be part of the global group of countries with the idea of an open internet vs copying China's great firewall practice.
I realize this is hard externally with Trump and perhaps internally with Pai but they do not represent the majority
And people who think this is exclusive a Trump, right-wing position are seriously misguided. It's bi-partisan and will definitely continue under a Biden presidency as well.
Are you suggesting USA has that?
Edit: this post was originally titled “Banning TikTok suggests that the US no longer believes in a global internet” and that is still the main idea of the article
The first thing China did was putting up the Great Firewall.
Reciprocity is overdue and important.
https://thediplomat.com/2020/07/team-bidens-policies-on-chin...
Whoever the next President is will not be soft on China.
