US designates more Chinese tech companies as military collaborators

[twojobsoneboss]

The fact that TikTok is still allowed to run amok when the PRC has their hands all over it and also shows completely different content to Chinese users is the greatest irony and crime here

[fnordpiglet]

The divide is largely due to the fact the Chinese government has regulations about the quality and kind of social media content platforms are allowed to distribute, including emphasizing educational content for kids etc. Possibly other nefarious reasons you allude to, but those content standard regulations are sufficient enough to explain why Chinese content is segregated - they literally can’t share the same content selection inside China, so otherwise would have to conform to Chinese regulations outside China as well. Those regulations would make TikTok much less profitable outside China, and they’re not required to do absolutely anything to “improve” the content quality outside China, so they naturally optimize towards engagement and stickiness. That incentive is shared by all social media companies, and is why the Chinese regulations exist to begin with - because what’s engaging and sticky is likely really the absolute worst crap ever.

[kingwill101]

The fact that *insert American tech company * is still allowed to run amok when the *insert 3 letter agency* has their hands all over it and openly flaunts it is the greatest irony and crime here

[hulitu]

Youtube, Facebook, Microsoft.

[dhdudbd]

most Americans can't speak chinese

[living_room_pc]

Is it just me, or does it feel like there are some strange comments in this thread. Like responses to comments that add nothing but trying to shut down conversations... Patriots I guess

[thiago_fm]

Totally. Seeing this conflict from an outsider perspective (not American nor Chinese), makes me puke.

US has been killing and plaguing millions of people with their crappy social networks, with depression and draining their attention, using it to monitor and spread American "democratic" values around the world.

Now that China has 01 social network that is successful (nowhere as close as the ones owned by Meta tho), Americans and politicians think that China is a menace and it's the end of the world. Of course the PRC have influence in Tiktok and will use it. The US has been doing the same for ages.

My only hope is that we get more and more alternatives, up to the point that American Big Techs become irrelevant, and so does this conflict.

I wonder when the first American nuke will be used because of a meme being shared in a social network

[2OEH8eoCRo0]

Once you notice it you'll see it everywhere around here.

[2OEH8eoCRo0]

FBI director Wray just spoke about China's strategy.

https://www.fbi.gov/news/speeches/director-wrays-opening-sta...

> If or when China decides the time has come to strike, they’re not focused solely on political or military targets. We can see from where they position themselves, across civilian infrastructure, that low blows aren’t just a possibility in the event of a conflict. Low blows against civilians are part of China’s plan.

[rightbyte]

This is a self fulfilling prophecy. It is better to be friends.

> Any Americans announcing their support for Chinese EV cars or DJI drones or TikTok in U.S is willfully ignorant

Oh they know. Maybe they have learned from the war on Iraq and Afghanistan to not trust the Washington elite on the matter of national insecurity.

[BeFlatXIII]

> Any Americans announcing their support for Chinese EV cars or DJI drones

How do their prices compare to their non-Chinese competitors?

[2OEH8eoCRo0]

FBI director Wray agrees:

> I do want the American people to know that we cannot afford to sleep on this danger. As a government and a society, we’ve got to remain vigilant and actively defend against the threat Beijing poses. Otherwise, China has shown it will make us pay.

[feedforward]

> China is an enemy of U.S.

China is an enemy of the US, the Gazans are an enemy if the US, the Yemeni which the US are bombing are an enemy of the US, Biden just said Iran is an enemy of the US.

Russia is an enemy of the US, Syria is an enemy of the US, North Korea is an enemy of the US. Venezuela is an enemy of the US, Cuba is an enemy of the US.

It just goes on and on and on.

[ok123456]

What if you just are tired of this empty propaganda? The people peddling this message have been systematically WRONG about everything for the past generation.

Who has China invaded? Beyond the occasional regional border disputes, like in Vietnam, I'm hard-pressed to find any.