Re:Facebook readies global launch of its TikTok competitor
by andreilys on Thursday July 16, 2020 @10:46AM
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China should be substituted with CCP.
The CCP have done an incredible job of linking their government with the Chinese nation. Which to me is an absolute tragedy.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/25/revealed-...
Re:Facebook readies global launch of its TikTok competitor
by patrickaljord on Thursday July 16, 2020 @11:38AM
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China has never been a democracy though. It's always been a one party system for thousands of years, CCP is just the current name but it is not that different than what was there before. When you take this into account, it makes sense to consider CCP and China the same thing (ie the one party system in place for thousands of years).
In fact it is quite an improvement at least since Tchang Kaï-Chek (the Mao era was for the most part horrific and worse than what preceded it).
Re:Facebook readies global launch of its TikTok competitor
by andreilys on Thursday July 16, 2020 @12:49PM
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I'm sure people living in Honk Kong and Xinjiang would disagree with your assessment.
Re:Facebook readies global launch of its TikTok competitor
by patrickaljord on Thursday July 16, 2020 @02:05PM
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Xinjiang surely wants to be left alone but I doubt they're looking for a progressive liberal western style democracy. Hong Kong has been under heavy influence of the British so they have indeed developed an attachment to Western style democracy but to what extend I don't know.
There isn't any evidence that China is using any TikTok data, so why is this presented as fact here about five dozen times per day?
TikTok has got a distinct privacy policy for people outside of China, stores American data in the US and Singapore IIRC, and there hasn't been any evidence presented yet that this is not true.
'China' is literally just used as a derogatory term on this website, which is embarassing for a tech community.