• Prunebutt@feddit.de
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      The chinese government doesn’t have any say in tiktok. Tiktok isn’t even available in china. This is an attemt to please repuplican politicians all the way.

      Correction: The PRC owns 1% and has one person in the board of directors of bytedance. Still: the fearmongering against the chinese government is just a smokescreen to draw attention away from the NSA.

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            Bytedance is headquartered in Beijing, and the chinese version of the app, Douyin, is owned by Beijing Microlive Vision Technology Co., Ltd.

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              The place of the headquarter doesn’t necessarily reflecht the juristiction. And they developed both Douyin and Tiktok (it is the same app).

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                It’s not about jurisdiction though, it’s about the Chinese government’s rules controlling businesses that operate from within their country. You can’t really headquarter there and then tell them you don’t want to play ball.

                Agreed that it’s the same app, that’s kind of my point regarding the Beijing-based company that owns Douyin.

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        Whatever. Let’s not pretend that authoritarian China doesn’t have its tentacles in the country’s business operations to steer everything to its will.

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          I’m seriously not a fan of China. But thinking that neoliberal western “democracies” are way less authoritarian is just a delusion.