tiktok!!
TikTok’s in trouble. But so is the internet as we know it.
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On August 6, President Trump issued an executive order prohibiting transactions with the video-sharing app TikTok. His order said that because TikTok is owned by the Beijing-based company ByteDance, the app could pose national security and privacy risks to users in the US.
But the Trump administration’s targeting of TikTok marks a departure from America’s traditional position on internet governance and online free speech. And it also comes at a time when the concept of a global internet itself is under threat.
Today a growing number of countries are pursuing various forms of internet sovereignty — from Russia building a walled-off “intranet,” to India regularly shutting down its internet in areas of social unrest, to some European nations introducing a “right to be forgotten” from search engines.
All these trends point in the direction of a “splinternet,” where your experience of the internet increasingly depends on where you live, and the whims of the ruling parties there. As we explain in this video, that’s a tough environment for an app like TikTok, which became globally successful almost immediately, and which connects people from around the world in hyper-personalized but often international subcultures.
With the excesses of the open internet visible daily (see: foreign election interference, data breaches, misinformation and hate speech, and domestic and corporate surveillance), the countries that do support a free internet will have to work hard to secure its future. But they may have to do it without the United States.
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The main problem I can imagine is all tic tockers will move to YouTube now
Completely random fact:
To leave a party without telling anyone is called in English, a “French Exit”. In French, it’s called a “partir à l’anglaise”, to leave like the English.
“When China sneezes, the whole world catches a cold”
– Kelley Kingsley
Are we going to talk about how tiktokers were dressing up as holocaust victims and even the Auschwitz museum had to make a statement on it
The video does not touch upon data security issue , it just mentions a statement by ByteDance denying it , that’s it .
Everybody: Tiktok stealing data
Facebook, Google: Sweating nervously
*The* *problem* *with* *tiktok* :
It’s trash but doesn’t stinks
I remember back in the days where Temple Run, Where’s my Water, Talking tom, Flappy bird, and Fruit Ninja were the most popular apps 😂
TikTok: is banned in America
NordVPN: 🤑🤑🤑 💰 💰💰 💵💵💵
Such a half-assed narrative, didn’t even talk about the sketchy underbelly of the app, & that no chinese company can challenge the overbearing Information law in China- If the state asks for the data, you gotta give it
Only the smart tiktokers have already moved onto YouTube like how the viners did
The idea that a Chinese company “would not do so if asked” by the Chinese government is an affront to my intelligence.
China: blocked YouTube, google, fb, insta, Wikipedia, and everything else.
US: blocks tiktok
Everyone else: surprise pickachu face
[turns on microphone] “redditors, we have a problem”
Youtube would be filled with TikTok stars like when Vine had been cancelled lol
For the Internet shut downs in 2019, the graphic is wrong. Ireland never had a shut down and the source you cited says it didn’t either, while you left out the UK which your source says did have a shut down.
VPN : *That’s were the big buck roll’s in*
I think you accidentally put “banning” in the title
At 6:32 you Show the Internet shutdowns in 2019 according to your source. However if u look at the linked document it never shows Germany having an internet lockdown. Instead the UK, according to access now had one shutdown. However in your world map you highlighted Germany as well as France for example who never had an internet shutdown, but leave out the UK. Is that a fault of yours, or am I just not getting it? Because, if this is false I strongly recommend you correct the video!
This is such a one sided argument. No talk over how China can force Bytedance at any given time to share data and they can’t refuse. I’m all for net neutrality but also all for less surveillance and stricter privacy laws. Or else, next thing you know, it’s back to 1984.
Talking about open global internet is not a right argument when it comes to China.
China doesn’t allow outside apps to function there then why would other countries let their apps . Let’s look how mutual it is!!
I’m from INDIA here the tik tok is banned from 30 June this year.
They shut down Tiktok’s Indian servers, that’s why you can’t unblock Tiktok even after using a VPN
TikTok is banned in its own country(china). 😂 so don’t use this. they also know this is a bad and useless time wasting app.
Remember when Tik Tok was just the sound of a clock?
When a known alcoholic says they don’t drink, do you believe them?
I love the Vox-style ‘all these reporters talking at once’ thing to show that an app/story/idea has gone viral
“Original home of the internet” (referring to the US)
I’m sorry what? Internet WAS NOT born in the US. It is inherently European created in CERN. It’s funny how the US soft campaign promotes to the entire world how they’re the sole protectors of democracy by forcing their government of choice on so many countries across the world.
Guess some countries are more equal than the others.
i immediately associate “frictionless” with cody ko lool
“The problem with banning TikTok-
Me: No
He just salty we messed up his Tulsa rally
“Tiktok has never provided any US users data to the Chinese government,nor would it do so if asked.” Wow, such profoundly trustworthy information from the country which told the WHO not to worry about the coronavirus.
we shouldn’t allow us government to ban tiktok ……
we should ban it all over the world
seems like everything is crashing into global politics these days…
I am so relieved that it is already banned here in India.
Americans: if China wants our data they’ll have to buy it from Facebook like everyone else 😂😭
China: bans Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram
America: okay
—————————————————–
America: bans TikTok
China: *hold up*
This video feels like you didn’t really do your research not to mention the fact you didn’t even mention why it’s being banned.
This feels like a Black Mirror episode, ngl.
They never mentioned why TikTok was banned in the US though…
0:59 sounded like she was spitting bars for a second
i still remember when TikTok used to be called Musically.
I think we are living in black mirror this isn’t just one episode anymore
World banning tik tok
CHINA BANS EVERYTHING
This really doesn’t address the security issues relating to the average user in the United States.
I don’t think we’ll ban it once it’s an American company’s platform, so maybe we don’t have to worry about THIS dark precedent.
The internet already has problems. Everything related to the internet has problems, not just TikTok.
Instagram: can I copy your homework?
Snapchat, twitter, YouTube, vine, tiktok: I guess yes…
I hope they do some people are scaring kids with the rupture or the world ended in 2012
Yeah, Vox the internet should be open. Now, if you would please activate the comments on the BLM video you made because the internet needs to be open.
The internet was first created to connect the world and now people are deliberately starting to cut themselves off of it
TikTok uses a software that personalizes page base on your interest.
hmm… can tiktok make a dating app?
government should not be able to ban anything on internet.
The goal is to show China that every action has a consequence. Like capturing Indian borders just because they’re stronger and taking advantage of American liberal laws and putting heavy tarrifs on their good as well as banning all American sites.
Instead of banning TikTok the US should pressure iOS and Android and Chrome to instill more data privacy choices so that TikTok can’t data-mine you in the background
VPNs be like:
Option 1 — “We advocate for a free and open internet.”
Option 2 — Profits from a closed internet.
*Sweats Uncontrollably*
Title “The problem with banning TikTok” Me: Impossible…
Also doesn’t Google,Microsoft,Apple,etc use people’s information,sometimes even invading user privacy. Oh but since they’re American companies it’s ok? If you’re going to ban one ban all,simple.
NSA: thank God they forgot about Edward Snowden…….
The solution for all social media is to go open-source.
The problem with banning TikTok is that somebody else will launch a similar app and the effort is worthless
Banning TikTok makes sense in the United States. When we globalise, we accept that China is gonna take over certain industries over(manufacturing). In return, United States takes over the software industry (Facebook, Google, Twitter).
Allowing China to take a big hatch at that software industry is economically really dangerous for the United States because now even the software industry relies on China.
China has already banned Google and Facebook in the United States so I really don’t understand why the United States should treat Chinese tech companies leniently.
It’s actually because China has a law that would require any company to give them the information they have if the government wants it. Tik tok is full of memes right now about the elections and so on. The same things that happened with facebook can happen with tik tok. They can give you content you like and trough that introduce and idea on how to view politics and who to vote, all that video has to do is… Make you laugh.
Yesterday, India banned PUBG Mobile too.
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