TikTok: Logs, Logs, Logs

Re:TikTok: Logs, Logs, Logs by genidoi on Monday August 03, 2020 @08:26AM (#24036814)

Being able to influence geopolitics and orchestrate a pro-CCP feed to target demographics is a long, subtle plan that spans decades and TikTok is just the current instrument that the CCP has in their arsenal, and it's very likely early into that plan.

It's a little naive to think that there would be a red herring found with a packet inspection, though the author deserves credit for settling doubts.

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Re:TikTok: Logs, Logs, Logs by FooBarWidget on Monday August 03, 2020 @08:31AM (#24036857)

Any foreign app/website can be used to feed foreign propaganda. Should we ban all foreign apps/websites? Where does it end?

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Re:TikTok: Logs, Logs, Logs by skywhopper on Monday August 03, 2020 @08:39AM (#24036945)

Why limit your worries to “foreign” apps? Assuming you’re American, Facebook and Twitter can and do carry a ton of “foreign” propaganda.

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Re:TikTok: Logs, Logs, Logs by ClikeX on Monday August 03, 2020 @08:48AM (#24037028)

As a non-American. Facebook and Twitter spam me with American politics all the time.

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Re:TikTok: Logs, Logs, Logs by ganfortran on Monday August 03, 2020 @09:39AM (#24037609)

Would you categorize Facebook/Twitter then, as the tool for US government to influence geopolitics on its behalf?

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Re:TikTok: Logs, Logs, Logs by genidoi on Monday August 03, 2020 @09:53AM (#24037757)

You can post anything you like about Trump on FB/Twitter and you won't have federal police erase you 2 days later. The threshold for that in China is comparing it's current president to a cartoon character.

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Re:TikTok: Logs, Logs, Logs by ganfortran on Monday August 03, 2020 @10:47AM (#24038375)

This is not about US domestic politics.

Will the US government use FB/Twitter to delete the supporters' posts for the candidates it doesn't like?

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