TikTok’s bid to overturn a law which would see it banned or sold in the US from early 2025 has been rejected.
The social media company had hoped a federal appeals court would agree with its argument that the law was unconstitutional because it represented a “staggering” impact on the free speech of its 170 million US users.
But the court upheld the law, which it said “was the culmination of extensive, bipartisan action by the Congress and by successive presidents”.
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The court agreed the law was “carefully crafted to deal only with control by a foreign adversary, and it was part of a broader effort to counter a well-substantiated national security threat posed by the PRC (People’s Republic of China).”
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This wouldn’t work, given that TikTok isn’t allowed in China. This cyberweapon is only meant to be used against foreigners. Either way, don’t help them and instead actively dissuade them from trying to keep their addiction alive.
While technically correct, they do have it in China itself, it’s a modified version called Douyin. It is more restricted, censored and tightly controlled.
I agree that it is a cyberweapon, but don’t think that it’s only used against foreigners, they use it just as much to observe and influence their own population.
Finally, I would like to point out that to a lesser extent this is also the case for a lot of USA owned social media and tech companies. Edward Snowden’s revelations for example indicate this. While the extent of government control and influence is much larger in China, I wouldn’t underestimate the influences of Meta, Google and Microsoft for example.
No. Tiktok in China is a completely different app. China doesn’t allow tiktok in the form we have it.
There isn’t a tiktok in China. Douyin isn’t tiktok anymore than WeChat is Facebook.
And the reason for that is really simple, and it’s not even nefarious; Tiktok isnt a Chinese company, and taxes in China are worse for foreign companies, and China doesn’t respect foreign IP.
