TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U.S. deal

Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by vkou on Saturday August 01, 2020 @10:48PM (#24025911)

If foreign speech is a threat to a free country's national security, then I think that the free speech experiment has ran its course, and its time to pack it up. /snark

Just imagine what would happen if the foreigners say the wrong things at us. How is our freedom so brittle that it cannot handle speech?

This whole avenue of argument sounds an awful lot like one that authoritarian regimes use to block Google, Facebook, the NYT, etc.

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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by bladegash on Sunday August 02, 2020 @09:51AM (#24028691)

I think you are missing the point. There are many many goals that support the PRC’s strategic goals/interests other than persuading people to be pro-China. If you ever get a chance, look up some of the publicly available US military doctrine on information operations and what the possible uses of it are.

Here’s one to start with: https://www.jcs.mil/Portals/36/Documents/Doctrine/pubs/jp3_1...

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