"All buildings matter" and "all days in September matter" are just two recent memes from the past month.
TikTok is doing a lot of harm to our national image. Zoomers that I know don't think it's important for the US to have a lead in tech and that we commit atrocities worse than China.
It's pretty alarming that we're being manipulated whereas China and Russia are impenetrable.
Social media in the hands of state actors may be one of the greatest dangers to democracy yet.
It’s not so much that you actually are right, but that you’re exposing a contrarian idea that doesn’t align with either CCP apologists or certain leftists in the US, so they’ll try to silence comments like yours (and mine) to make it appear that they aren’t popular or worth discussing.
(you’ll see a subsequent increase in downvotes for me too for expressing interest).
Too much nationalism is dangerous, but I fear we've slipped into a state of disaffection that will cause us to lose the lead.
I think there is a lot at risk if China's tech sector and export industry eclipses the West. Our jobs, standard of living, and strong democracy might be eroded.
Not everyone in America has the same experience or opportunity. But I felt like we were getting better. I can't see that progress continuing in a world dominated by a totalitarian regime.
Covid, extreme partisanship, and the growing threat of China make the future seem bleaker than it did half a decade ago.
What do you think these mean? I'm confused at how you would read those words and think that it has anything to do with "national image".
And we haven't? You could look at race relations, organized labor, communist party. Any of these, and more, could be looked at internally historically to the usa and show hypocritical views.
A significant number of my fellow American, Millennial friends want to see China overtake us in all areas including economic and military.
Partly because they believe we need to be punished, and partly because it shocks boomers.
>Partly because they believe we need to be punished, and partly because it shocks boomers.
Yeah but by doing that, you're letting an oppressive authoritarian regime grow in power, making the world worse off. It's essentially "cutting off the nose to spite the face".
Then why force them to sell to a US company specifically. Why wasn't Germany or any EU company with strong privacy laws allowed to buy them?
There is no one outside the US with both the tech skills and the cash to buy something the size of TikTok. Heck, there are very few in the US (adding the third requirement of no antitrust concerns).
If TikTok were a Canadian, British, French, German, Korean, Japanese, or Taiwanese company, the US government wouldn't have intervened in the first place.
But naturally they don’t want to offend China so why take the risk when you can try to play both sides as long as possible?
The US views Chinese social media apps as being able to spread criticism (and most likely propaganda) and the US can’t do likewise in China, so they’ll just not let Chinese social media companies operate in the US until that changes.
There will be 0 official, influential Chinese social media companies operating in the US on a permanent basis until the CCP let’s US social media companies operate in China. This has bipartisan support.