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“This is not something you would normally hear me say but Donald Trump was right on TikTok years ago,” Warner said during a visit to Australia to meet with local intelligence chiefs, politicians and business people.
“If your country uses Huawei, if your kids are on TikTok, if your population uses WeChat as a social media platform, the ability for China to have undue influence is, I think, a much greater challenge and a much more immediate threat than any kind of actual, armed conflict,” Warner said.
“China having this kind of technology domination in a number of countries ought to scare the heck out of us because we’ve seen the kind of Orwellian surveillance state they’ve already created within China.”
Noting the US Armed Forces has ordered American service members not to download the video-sharing app, Warner said he would not want it on any of his devices.
Australian parents should be worried about how much their children’s data was being harvested by the app, he said.
“The level of code in TikTok is exponentially higher, for example, than the lines of code in Facebook,” said Warner, who was a successful technology entrepreneur before entering politics.
It would be hard to ever describe the app as “fully safe” while that code is written in China, he said.
Unfortunately, Trump's bans of various CCP media platforms were rejected by the courts.
Were they rejected by the Supreme Court though? As long as the highest court hasn't ruled on the topic, someone else can file a case against these CCP apps and media platforms.
Content providers trying to monetize their platform use tiktok. They're not interested in what the Chinese think they're interested in making money. Jump through the hoops and follow the rules and play the game that the progressive establishment would have you play in order to be socially approved on these platforms and get your monetization.
Plus the average person is not as obsessed with politics as most of us are. Does it really matter what the Chinese know about us? It's not like the Western Elites like George Soros approve of Xi anyways. He's not playing ball and is becoming too Marxist for his own good and will have to be taken out at some point, likely from within.
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