Idk if people so much think that TikTok in and of itself is anti-imperialist, but it seemed like it was much easier to access pro-palestine and socialist content on there since it wasn’t so censored/policed, and that kind of content reached a lot of younger people whose politics may have been affected by that. I think people are fully aware that it’s chock full of toxic/racist/problematic content too. Makes sense that it would be sold off like this though.

I don’t think anyone here was ever praising TikTok that hard. Not seriously anyway. It exposed a lot of young people to Palestine though, and it would be silly to pretend that didn’t have a positive effect or the West wouldn’t be falling over itself to ban it.

Huh

I tell ye what, the more I hear of this, the more I think Tiktok is essentially the Sangkum Cambodia of social media - caught between 2 sides in a Cold War.

That being said, I guess the site was untenable enough that it actually wasn’t

able to escape the ire of the US gov’t

tiktok just stuffing itself full of alphabet soup agents to desperately keep themselves on the good side of the US state dept. sadly for them, no amount of unit 8200 ghouls in your R&D division will help the fact that the US will never allow Chinese software (or any foreign software for that matter) to achieve cultural hegemony status without handing over the levers of power to AmeriKKKans.