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American gov worried about Americans going to Chinese social media to share even more personal information
Chinese gov worried about the influx of Americans inside their Great Firewall
What a clusterfuck. I love it.
- You can tell it's internationalism and not globalism because both governments hate it /s
- Chinese news seems generally positive. Here's a translation from the official Chinese media, People's Daily, yesterday:
  
  You'd epxect official media to be happy about it. But they had cordoned off the rest of the world for a reason on TikTok. They have that Great Firewall for a reason.
  
  Why would you expect official media to be happy?
  I'd expect official media to be warning about dangerous foreigners manipulating you, especially if they were planning to shut it down.
  
  Because it's good PR. Pretend to be happy while you work to cordon off foreigners again
  
  Except they're not cordoning us off, they're doing the opposite by adding built-in translation functions.
  
  It's a very recent development and such a change takes time. And of course the company behind the app is welcoming to new users, because it means growth, even when it comes with new headaches towards moderation and pressure from government.
  The company not scrambling to make the experience good for foreigners would be leaving money on the table. And no corporation wants to do that. But it's not up to just them.
  
  Obviously the Chinese government is a big thing and I'm sure there's a lot of different opinions, but at least the foreign ministry has released official statements speaking positively of the exchanges.
  
  Are we really going to take word from foreign ministries in earnest?
  
  If the foreign ministry was planning to split the userbase, they would be warning about malicious foreign influence, like the US did before they banned tiktok.
  
  And why would they ever want do that? It's a much better move to be all "this is great" and then quietly act to separate them. That way it looks good inside and outside and it won't hurt the app. And they wouldn't want to hurt the app, unlike the US who wanted to hurt TikTok.
- The US government doesn't give any amount of fucks about your personal information. It was always about the Chinese government's ability to use tiktok to propagandize to us.
  And before you say it, yes they think it's okay if the US companies do it. The Chinese government is of the same mind in that regard.
  
  I mean they probably care even less because I'm not American. But otherwise yes main reason was influencing

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