Google and Facebook would LOVE to have TikTok banned because TikTok is eating their lunch right now, attracting advertising money at a rate that is an existential threat to them both.
If there's a world war 3, you better believe the powers will be USA, Western EU, Japan, Australia, Taiwan, NZ, (maybe India), (maybe israel), against China, Russia, Venezuela, Cuba, maybe Brazil, et al.
I don't say this because they're communist, etc. I like aspects of communism, I say this because they rule like the book 1984 is a guidebook, not a work of fiction.
Asking to satisfy my constant hunger for alternate-history/possible-future worldbuilding.
HN: *squint eyes*
Sometimes nested in two or three layers of reaction videos.
This is just plain old protectionism.
Pretty easy to imagine what would happen if a party official said "please promote content that is divisive or favors pro CCP propaganda".
I can't imagine the CEO of Binance saying no to that, and the ability to detect changes to a black-box recommendation algorithm are non-existant.
Apple is fully capable there, of course.
The US Gov't has asked both to stop carrying TikTok on app stores multiple times, and it's still there.
I don't think anyone wants TikTok gone other than people who don't use it or who see how much data is collected. TikTok is something of a cancer, and like cancer, it has zero incentive to stop. metastasis is TikTok's entire purpose.
Google sort of does compete via YouTube, but YouTube is still the top dog and serving a different niche. I don't see TikTok's rise stealing market share from YouTube nearly as much as it is stealing from Instagram and Facebook.
I guess my point is that neither app store owners have any real incentive to ban TikTok. It would hurt both companies by way of pissing off users far more than it would benefit them by nudging users to their own services.
why the hell are big businesses so scared of China? money? these businesses should be put down if money allows a foreign and malicious entity to strongarm them. absolutely despicable.
> why the hell are big businesses so scared of China? money? these businesses should be put down if money allows a foreign and malicious entity to strongarm them. absolutely despicable.
China has Apple by the balls: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/06/technology/china-apple-ip....
any company that lets something like that happen deserves to be dissolved.
I think Apple is doing the right thing here by not playing favorites, and instead instituting App Store policies designed to protect user privacy regardless of which country a given service hails from.
And Apple would be harmed by blocking TikTok. It's one of, if not the most popular social media app on the App Store. Banning it hurts Apple because it would mean users who like TikTok now have incentive to move to another platform.
I've only mentioned Google and Apple because those are the two major app stores that the FBI has asked to cease distribution of the TikTok app, which is what actually creates the videos that get played on Instagram and Facebook.
stop imagining arguments that people don't make.
someone who does not speak out for or against something is NOT an explicit statement of the opposite, for crying out loud.
I'm struggling to even comprehend this sentence. I never said or imagined that you said "Facebook or Instagram should ban TikTok", that doesn't even make sense. I said Apple and Google have no reason to ban TikTok because TikTok does not compete with them. They have nothing to gain except pissing off users, so why would they do it?
I asked "Why should Apple or Google ban TikTok but not Facebook or Instagram". All three are equally guilty of harvesting user data and using it to drive ads and content. You need to explain to me what TikTok is doing that is both different from its competitors, and what makes that illegal.
I misread this as you asking me why apple should ban tiktok while Facebook and Instagram should not ban tiktok.
so go ahead and use your multiple accounts to downvote me more, ok?
mistakes are not permitted here, or I'd be able to go back and edit after 2 hours. the last thing I want to do when arguing with someone on the internet is go back and check my spelling and grammar and interact more with the person I have had zero pleasant interaction with, which is why i did not catch the mistake.
fucking delete my account @dang