TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants

Re:TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants by fragmede on Friday July 29, 2022 @02:10AM (#32273704)

When an APT like China is concerned (or, eg the CIA), you'd be foolish to wantonly apply Hanlon's razor. I'm not saying it never applies, but some of the lengths nations go to in order to gain an advantage over their adversaries is astounding. Think NSO iPhone hack†. It's been documented that the CCP requires a party member be allowed to see into the company's private business dealings, or else face the same fate as Jack Ma‡. The Chinese version of TikTok, Douyin, is heavily scrutinized, eg (from down-thread) https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53840167.

†https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-deep-dive-i...

‡https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/world/story/jack-ma-arre...

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Re:TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants by zarzavat on Friday July 29, 2022 @06:00AM (#32275031)

I have not wantonly applied Hanlon's razor. You missed the first part where I said that TikTok is the same in every non-Chinese market. Friend or foe. There is no targeted attack towards America. They simply do not care about non-Chinese kids at all.

Obviously China does care about the Chinese internet, it is heavily censored as we all know. But it is a giant leap from "China censors Chinese-TikTok" to "China is trying to make American kids stupid with dance videos". The corollary is that the people claiming this want China to heavily censor American TikTok so that it is more like Chinese TikTok!

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Re:TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants by stackbutterflow on Friday July 29, 2022 @04:13AM (#32274317)

What's an APT?

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Re:TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants by bencollier49 on Friday July 29, 2022 @06:07AM (#32275077)

An advanced persistent threat. A sophisticated targeted attack.

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