The world has seen too much. Lies from the Chinese government simply do not work any longer.
This is why they need young people using social media that they control.
I mean it’s comedic how easily you Muppets get pulled around by your politicians. China has an information overreach, so… that means the dancing videos on tiktok are evil.
No, China has a long history of institutionalized censorship and attempts to hide reality from not just their own citizens, but from the world. They do so through direct suppression (such as arrests, police brutality, harassment, threatening family members of dissidents abroad) and through social media campaigns similar to those of Russian troll farms.
China is a totalitarian state that exerts direct control and ownership of all business in China, TikTok is no different. It is extremely naive (or dishonest) to deny that they do not use TikTok as a means of social engineering, the CCP’s eagerness to control information has never simply stropped at their borders:
I know this because politicians say so.
Well…no, I know it’s because it’s a product from the largest totalitarian surveillance states on earth.
It’s American? Holy shit, that’s a mindfuck.
No.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2023/dec/28/china-prison-camps-xinjiang-kazakhstan-uyghurs-kazakhs-in-pictures
https://businessdailymedia.com/business-news/19313-un-report-on-xinjiang-abuses-leaves-no-room-for-plausible-deniability
https://apnews.com/article/china-crime-beijing-congress-6dc2b08f9163770c696a55c75fa9ac30
https://apnews.com/article/iran-china-harassing-dissidents-united-states-ee48c1b9c32d187b183faaa616d9ab16
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/01/06/china-forced-kazakhs-implement-ethnic-crackdown/
https://wamu.org/story/24/02/22/leaked-document-trove-shows-a-chinese-hacking-scheme-focused-on-harassing-dissidents/
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-59456541
https://apnews.com/article/china-crime-beijing-congress-6dc2b08f9163770c696a55c75fa9ac30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWeOkYqN0y4#bottom-sheet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WNhk17wKT4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=NuFdeg4k9bw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=08GDQCiU8uU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=v7AYyUqrMuQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTjTxdbMjR4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78bX_hb1MnQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Shla50pRxA
The world has seen too much. Lies from the Chinese government simply do not work any longer. This is why they need young people using social media that they control.
I mean it’s comedic how easily you Muppets get pulled around by your politicians. China has an information overreach, so… that means the dancing videos on tiktok are evil.
See how silly that sounds? That’s how you sound.
No, China has a long history of institutionalized censorship and attempts to hide reality from not just their own citizens, but from the world. They do so through direct suppression (such as arrests, police brutality, harassment, threatening family members of dissidents abroad) and through social media campaigns similar to those of Russian troll farms.
China is a totalitarian state that exerts direct control and ownership of all business in China, TikTok is no different. It is extremely naive (or dishonest) to deny that they do not use TikTok as a means of social engineering, the CCP’s eagerness to control information has never simply stropped at their borders:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/29/us-says-chinas-global-information-manipulation-threatens-freedoms
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2021/12/chinese-government-deploying-online-influencers-amid-beijing-olympics-boycotts/
https://about.fb.com/news/2022/09/removing-coordinated-inauthentic-behavior-from-china-and-russia/
https://www.polygraph.info/a/china-s-disinformation-campaigns-in-2023-targets-drivers-campaigns/7407053.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_dissidents
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