White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said Monday that the Chinese-owned social media app TikTok poses a threat to privacy and national security, telling the Axios Re:Cap podcast, "Let's not downplay the threat here: the mothers of America have to worry about whether the Chinese Communist Party knows where their children are."I dunno: if someone from the CCP could give the mothers a call and let them know, most of them would probably think it's a useful service.
Everyone knows the average user of Tik Tok is really young; young people don't tend to do anything that is of national security importance. Who cares if the CCP in theory might be able to ask the company to hand over data that could tell them that Johnny is probably skipping high school (or his college class) today?
Given the incredible depths of information that Google and Facebook collect on nearly every single adult in the West, and (one would have to suspect) the ease with which China could get some internal company spy to leak some of that information, worrying about Tik Tok just seems wildly disproportionate to me.
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sounds like it is all political and no substance
Of course social media a threat. The platforms represent a place for systematic data-gathering for purposes of influence and blackmail as well as revolutionary or terrorist co-ordination. Thats why Zuckerman's platform has taken part in terrorism and orange revolutions. And its why Zuckerman's security is not unlike that of Saddam Hussein. We know who the arch masters of the influence and blackmail markets are. Because one of them has escaped using a body double and is pretending to be dead and another one is supposed to be arrested but all we have to suggest this is a court illustration.
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