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China's most successful overseas app, TikTok, the overseas version of Douyin, has become a fish.
America's minions are once again aimed at Chinese companies, last time Huawei, and this time it is ByteDance's turn.
Recently, the Montana government in the United States announced a ban on TikTok, which will officially take effect in January next year.
▲ Source: Global Times
At that time, any company or individual will be prohibited from operating TikTok-related businesses in Montana, and any mobile app stores will be prohibited from providing download services for TikTok apps in the state.
Violators are fined $10,000 per day!
This is the first state in the United States to completely ban TikTok, and the order is officially fired to officially fire the first shot of the United States to hunt TikTok.
01, was placed on a trumped-up "crime"
This result is not surprising at all, after all, the attitude of the United States towards TikTok over the years, as Sima Zhao's heart is known to everyone, and it is impossible to get rid of it quickly.
As early as four years ago, the US government launched an independent investigation of TikTok, and Trump also killed TikTok, demanding that "TikTok must be sold to American companies" or sanction it.
Fortunately, the intervention of the Chinese government and Trump's re-election failure barely saved the business.
Of course, the unreasonable suppression of the United States will not stop here, and it will deliberately find fault with it in a different way until it drains the Chinese component of TikTok and makes it completely reduced to a hegemonic tool of the United States.
On March 24 this year, a "trumped-up" hearing on the other side of the Atlantic once again saw the ugly faces of a group of politicians who wanted to kill TikTok.
For this hearing, TikTok CEO Zhou Shou funded the preparation for one year, but all the efforts only confirmed the saying "there is no excuse for the crime of wanting to add".
▲ Source: Weibo
A hearing under the banner of "protecting Americans' data privacy and child safety" was actually a political smear smear of TikTok, a private company.
In the more than 4 hours of "cross-examination", the rudeness and rudeness of the US congressmen were fully displayed, mixed with many suffocating brainless questions.
If a lawmaker asks: Why do you use users' WiFi during Tiktok's use? Why use a user's camera?
▲ Source: Global Network
Such questions can be answered by three-year-olds.
Drunken people do not mean to drink, their souls ask questions just to lead all the questions to the points of "stealing user information" and "threatening national security", and hammer hard.
The six-minute opening statement was the only opportunity for Zhou Shouzi to fully state his position in succession throughout the hearing.
In the Q&A session that follows, I would like to call it a trial-style criticism conference.
Lawmakers were aggressive and bombarded, but refused to give Mr. Chow a chance to explain further on many issues, ordering him to give a simple answer of "yes or no."
▲ Source: CCTV News
I have to say that such a hearing is very American!
Even in this case, Zhou Shouzi still argued.
Some lawmakers blamed TikTok entirely for the appearance of harmful content such as gun violence, pornography, and drugs, and Zhou Shouzi gave a rather face-shattering answer.
"In my country, Singapore, there is no video content of illegal drugs on TikTok because Singapore has extremely strict anti-drug laws," he said. ”
▲ Source: Red Star News
I have to say that these American politicians knowingly ask for the hard work, in the face of those deep-rooted social problems in their own country, instead of trying to find a way to solve them, they choose to cover up their ears and blame others.
02. It has been imitated and has not been surpassed
Backed by the core algorithm of the AI system, TikTok has always focused on solving the two core problems of "what should I see" and "what should I post".
TikTok, which has the above competitiveness, is too fierce to attack, and it has just risen and swept the world like a broken bamboo.
The U.S. government's precision hunt is fueled by American technology giants, because TikTok has entered their hinterland.
Up to now, the total number of TikTok and Douyin users worldwide is 2.4 billion, of which TikTok has about 1.5 billion users and Douyin has about 900 million users.
▲ Source: CCTV Network
Globally, there are only 5 apps with more than 1 billion daily active users, four of which are from the United States, and TikTok is the only app created by Chinese companies.
This is the most successful case of Chinese social media tools going overseas.
It continues to eat away at the attention and time of users of other social software, while advertising inventory is also tilted towards TikTok.
Its success has made those giants who are still eating their old roots feel like pins and needles.
As early as 2018, Facebook founder Zuckerberg, who labeled TikTok as a "threat to democracy", asked his own research and development department to develop a similar short video app called Lasso.
Unfortunately, people have no interest in Lasso, and in 4 months, only 70,000 downloads have been lost, which is a shame to lose face.
▲ Source: Weibo
At the time, The New York Times commented on the software: "A crappy copy version that borrows many of TikTok's core features and even tries to suck out some influential users." ”
If your "cloning" tactics are unsuccessful, you choose to take the rogue route, singing down you and crushing you one by one.
Zuckerberg has publicly stated threats about TikTok more than once, and even packaged his actions as patriotism, calling TikTok a threat to the national security of the United States.
These claims that TikTok is a "security threat" are a hat that is clearly put on its head, after all, these so-called allegations are not supported by any substantial evidence.
You know, ByteDance has made great concessions for TikTok's survival overseas, TikTok and Douyin except for the same core, all other businesses are completely separated.
As required by U.S. law, TikTok hosts its servers in the United States.
▲ Source: CCTV News
At the same time, in order to dispel the doubts of the US government, TikTok has also established an independent US data security company, and US data is only stored in the United States, almost completely transparent.
Of course, all efforts were in vain.
Others have blocked you not because you are not well-behaved enough, but because you are too outstanding, and your edge has shaken the hegemonism of others.
03. Will the scheme succeed again?
The strategy of the United States on Huawei has now changed the field and object, and continues to repeat the old technique.
Some media said:
Blocking Huawei is to maintain the US technology hegemony, and blocking TikTok is to maintain the US public opinion hegemony.
What is the hegemony of public opinion?
That is, the public can only know what the American media wants them to know, and the information they see is screened and processed.
Many U.S. users say they are well aware of the problems of guns, drugs, medical fees, but the big media don't report them.
The emergence of TikTok broke the monopoly of media, and its significance is - decentralization.
It's a place where everyone is free to speak and discuss what interests them.
Its appearance ripped off the fig leaf of American society.
It is as if to announce that the era of "anything that the United States said casually in the past was a wise saying" has completely come to an end.
▲ Source: Weibo video number @Phoenix TV
More than 1 billion people around the world swipe TikTok every day.
The thorn in the hearts of Americans is that such a bullish TikTok was not founded by the United States, and the US government has no way to manipulate TikTok from a global scale.
Now, the United States is testing the waters from Montana and officially launching a siege hunt against TikTok.
However, blocking TikTok is not a hype of public opinion about "stealing Americans' information" and fooling the past.
It also involves violations of the U.S. Constitution's civil rights regarding freedom of expression.
The American Civil Liberties Association (ACLU), which defends the rights of U.S. citizens, believes that the Montana law is trampling on the free speech of Montana residents in the name of "anti-Chinese sentiment" who are expressing their views, gathering online information and running small businesses through TikTok.
In addition, on the US social platform "Twitter", many American netizens are also expressing their dissatisfaction with the ban.
Among them, under the post where Montana Governor Gian Fook announced the ban on TikTok, although some people expressed support, the comments that received more likes were all opposed.
For example, one comment below that received a large number of likes used only a very simple English word to fully express contempt for the practice of blocking TikTok: "stupid."
▲ Source: Global Times
Some netizens asked: "Shouldn't it be our own choice (whether to use TikTok)?" ”
▲ Source: Global Times
VoxNews said that in the United States, the proportion of TikTok users under the age of 30 is higher than that of social media platforms such as Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.
If the United States insists on blocking TikTok, it will inevitably arouse the dissatisfaction of thousands of TikTok users.
Five people have filed a lawsuit against the Montana government on the grounds that it violates their freedom of expression and affects their livelihoods.
▲ Source: Global Times
These five people all have more than 10,000 fans on TikTok, including a retired female soldier who earns income from funny content, and the number of fans is as high as 200,000.
We have all seen the unscrupulous means of the United States, and TikTok's final fate may be fierce.
To be sure, TikTok won't be the last.
With the rise of Chinese enterprises and the increase in the pace of going overseas, in the future Sino-US business game, the United States is bound to "carry forward" this unseemly means of competition.
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