>Meta, X, Google could not come up with a better TikTok. So now they buy or ban what they can't conquer. Talk about free market.
What makes you think that, it's just an algo and network effects.
>I love the us vs them argument. Because it's baseless. Why don't you stop buying everything that's made in China. Let's see how far you get.
Because that would be harmful to US consumers. Lack of short video entertainment reccomended in a particular way is not very harmful. No microwaves or fridges for a couple of years is.
>Nobody is brainwashing anyone.
Influence operations on social media by nation states and others is a verified and ongoing concern. The US and others have been doing this for decades. If China is not doing it via Tiktok already, they would when the invasion of Taiwan starts.
>Except women the world over getting everything for free because they have holes. Nobody complains about that.
>> I love the us vs them argument. Because it's baseless. Why don't you stop buying everything that's made in China. Let's see how far you get.
> Because that would be harmful to US consumers. Lack of short video entertainment reccomended in a particular way is not very harmful. No microwaves or fridges for a couple of years is.
And it wouldn't be a bad thing to "stop buying everything that's made in China," but it's not something anyone can do suddenly. It would require a massive political project on par to the industrialization of China. China makes pretty much everything now (IIRC, they have 30-40% of the world's manufacturing capacity), and that is not a good thing for anyone who is not an authoritarian Chinese communist.
