Well, try suing the administration in China ...
For example right now we have an Australian citizen who is being held for no reason and with no ability to purse it through the judiciary because there isn't one.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/world/asia/china-australi...
Or you know that small issue of the mass-genocide that is happening in Xinjiang.
Out of the top of my head:
- guantanamo bay and waterboarding.
- toppling all sorts of South American sovereign government when the CIA would see fit.
- Nixon’s secret bombing of Cambodia from 1970 to 1975
- occupying foreign territory with the intent of making war on terror while seizing natural resources and destabilizing entire regions in the Middle East
I’m just saying: savior and champion of the free world my ass. Which is why the US should not be reserved any benefit in comparison to China when it comes to human rights and freedoms. We’re talking about a Western society LITERALLY built on slavery, whose entire prison system has been conceived as a continuation of forced labor.
Once this is settled, and the idea that America in inherently superior to China from an ethical standpoint is set aside, well then maybe we can properly talk about geopolitics.
But when one of two players are not playing fair (China) you're not going win any medals (or fights) while holding by your usual ethical standards.
And as much as I'm mostly completely opposed to the current US administration, Tiktok is a liability.
That's the thing! These are not ethical standards. These are about the general rules by which a society operates. Generally countries with inclusive systems work better than countries with exclusive ones. China being the odd man out, apparently, at the moment.
So it's not about ethics, it's about economics. It may seem like a value call, but actually it's a decision along a path does the society want to be more or less like an exclusive system. Since exclusive systems don't work as well financially, it's effectively a call does the system want to be wealthier or poorer long term.
I agree. More of a reason to make China accountable.
Yes, there is still a difference. No doubt. But Donald Trump is working on it ... since he already mentioned that he wants a third term (https://twitter.com/politicsvideo23/status/12954979623664025... ) one has to see how long the system will uphold the attacks ...
Donald Trump unambiguously is a tyrant, and has already made clear he will not accept an election defeat.
Donald Trump will be the downfall of us all, and this forum tries to down-mod this concern.
It's a worrying trend.
In the US, at least you can sue the administration and criticize them over their actions. The CCP on the other hand...
You can even call them nazis without it getting removed: https://www.tiktok.com/tag/chinazi
Now if you tried that on Douyin, the results would be different, but Douyin is available in China while TikTok isn't, so Chinese censorship applies to Douyin while it doesn't apply to TikTok.
Which is why there is something called "Blacklisted tags" and it has been used towards QAnon posts [0] and on BLM posts. [1]
Some tags get shadow-banned so that it doesn't appear on TikTok. The users here take a new hashtag so that it can be searchable. This form of censorship still applies to TikTok.
[0] https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/25/21338615/tiktok-qanon-has...
It doesn't get removed. Neither does LGBT content or Hong Kong protest content for that matter. Just because people repeat it again and again doesn't make it true and it takes literally three seconds to check if it's true or not.
Are you sure? Only after they were called out publicly for it. [0][1] Explain why they had to own up for their actions on multiple counts of censorship to content that doesn't please the CCP.
> Just because people repeat it again and again doesn't make it true and it takes literally three seconds to check if it's true or not.
Took literally 3 seconds to find this: [2][3]
Since there is clear evidence that have done it before, they can definitely do it again (and have done), especially at sensitive content that the CCP dislikes.
[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/26/tiktok-says-it-doesnt-censor...
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/28/tiktok-sa...
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/15/tiktoks...
[3] https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/tiktok-app-moderators-us...