The point being here is that the company ownership is setup in a complicate way, that is different than just being straight up controlled by china.
As in, there are apparently sub companies, that are in the US, not in china, that makes it different.
Re:As TikTok grows, so does suspicion
by stjohnswarts on Sunday July 10, 2022 @04:40PM
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If you are a major company in China you are controlled by the CCP. They may leave the day to day business to execs but they are 100% at CCP beck and call. Look at what happened to Jack when you go too far off script. CCP has full access to US Servers (yeah I know that TikTok "US" says all data is kept here.
> As in, there are apparently sub companies, that are in the US, not in china,
Sure, the US "sub companies" are located physically in the US and managed day-to-day by US-based employees but they are still owned by a Chinese parent company meaning at the end of the day, they still report to managers/executive in China and are obligated to follow directions given to them by people working for Chinese parent company. If the Chinese government cotrols the Chinese parent company then they, by definition, control the US-based company as well.
Re:As TikTok grows, so does suspicion
by vineyardmike on Sunday July 10, 2022 @09:21PM
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Tell that to zoom.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/18/zoom-he...
I guess the economist has it wrong then:
> As the first consumer-facing app from China to take off in the West, TikTok is a source of pride in Beijing. But the app’s Chinese ownership makes politicians elsewhere uneasy about its tightening grip on their citizens’ attention