#tiktok china

[ur-daily-inspiration]

Happy new year from China! 2024

[rongzhi]

Determination

English added by me :)

[newscast1]

China's ByteDance admits TikTok data of journalists improperly accessed by employees

China’s ByteDance admits TikTok data of journalists improperly accessed by employees

Employees of Chinese tech giant ByteDance improperly accessed data from TikTok to track two journalists, the company admitted Friday. New Delhi,UPDATED: Dec 23, 2022 13:44 IST Tik Tok logos are seen on smartphones in front of a displayed ByteDance logo in this illustration (Photo: Reuters) By Reuters: ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of popular video app TikTok, said on Thursday that some…

[azspot]

Because the Chinese state doesn't need Tiktok to spy on Americans. In the freewheeling, unregulated privacy "marketplace," all that data is for sale – Chinese spies can just plunk down their credit-cards next to everyone else who buys our data and mobilizes it to compromise us, market to us, and stalk us.

Cory Doctorow

[gallifreyriver]

Reminder that Zuckerberg actively lobbied with Republican PR firms to make TikTok illegal because he couldn't compete with it.

Reminder that for all its faults TikTok has brought tons of awareness to important issues that barely got any coverage until they blew up on TikTok, and more that still barely got any mainstream coverage even after they did.

Reminder that TikTok has become the largest and easiest place for people to come together and organize, and has 150 million active users in the US.

Reminder that congress, especially conservatives, stand to gain a lot by banning it, because it means less people will hear about all the problematic (fascist) shit they're trying to pass, such as the 300+ anti-trans bills, the bills seeking to make abortion a felony punishable by death, or how they're trying to remove the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). They also get to 'look tough' against China.

Reminder that claims of concerns over data privacy are bullshit, because China could literally just buy our data if they wanted it. Tech companies just like and including Facebook collect and sell our data all the time. China wouldn't need to build an app to get it.

Reminder that banning TikTok sets a precedent that Congress could come for literally any other social media they deem 'a threat' and ban that too. Yes, even your personal favorite one.

Reminder that we should care about this and instead of saying "Good Riddance TikTok!" we should be actively trying to stop this violation of free speech and stop handing more power to fascists just because we personally don't like a thing or think it's cringe. This is bigger than your personal tastes.

Please sign this letter from the ACLU to your members of Congress and urge them to listen. There's also a hearing this Thursday on March 23rd at 10am EST in DC where the TikTok CEO will be testifying before the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The hearing will be open to the public and will also be live streamed online.

I don't care if you hate TikTok or think it's "cringe." If you all actually hate Facebook and fascists as much as you say you do, then you won't stand for letting them win this fight to ban it.

[workersolidarity]

🇺🇸⚔️🇨🇳. 🚨

UNITED STATES SENATOR DOESNT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CHINA AND SINGAPORE

📹 U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) questions the CEO of TikTok U.S., Shou Zi Chew, a Singaporian national, about his nationality and affiliations with the "Chinese Communist Party," an entity that does not actually exist.

Chew repeatedly states his nationality and history as a Singaporian, having served in the military, and mentions his loyalty to his home country before Senator Cotton begins ranting about the events of Tiananmen Square in 1989.

#source

@WorkerSolidarityNews

[intersectionalpraxis]

thoughts on the us call for immediate ceasefire through the UNSC (blocked by russia and china), or more generally ramifications of chuck schumer's call for early israeli elections?

Saying Russia and China 'blocked' a call for a ceasefire is both inaccurate and dishonest. Please watch this video below for a full, transparent breakdown of what actually happened:

Arnaud also addressed this:

This also just doesn't end at a ceasefire, but with an end to Israel's illegal occupation of Palestine. A vast majority of Israeli's also still approve of IOF's war crimes -many have already went to block humanitarian trucks and are on SNS everywhere spouting genocidal rhetoric/are in alignment with the zionist settler-colonial agenda. So no matter who they 'vote for' if it is changed to later this year or sometime before 2026, the genocide will continue without their entire government and military being held accountable.

So, no matter who is in power -this is will always remain a fact: Israel is a terrorist state that is responsible for mass ethnically cleansing Palestinian people, and they must be stopped.

[goldenstarprincesses]

How often do we think nations get drunk and wonder around the streets of their modern city's wearing their museum quality historical clothing that they found in their attic

[mysharona1987]

The Onion on the government’s attempts to ban TikTok.

[shedontlovehuhself]

https://www.wsj.com/tech/why-the-new-effort-to-ban-tiktok-caught-fire-with-lawmakers-7cd3f980

[emphasisonthehomo]

All of the tiktok ban discussion is just straight up racist and xenophobic fear mongering.