The United States is in earnest!!
Combined with the anti-war march of the students, Ou-chan had to think more.
As we previously reported, members of Congress from both parties in the United States introduced a bill last month that would require ByteDance to divest control of its short-form video app TikTok or ban TikTok from the app store. That is, according to the plan of US lawmakers, TikTok now has only two paths,
Either sell (what is this Indian act)
Either withdraw from the United States???
Although TikTok has responded and fought back, and the understanding of Wang, who was firmly opposed to TikTok in office, also said that "Facebook should be banned more than TikTok". However, all this did not save Tiktok.
On April 24, according to the New York Times and other media reports, Biden officially signed the bill at the White House to divest TikTok (Douyin's overseas version) from China's parent company, ByteDance. TikTok is required to sell within a few months or it will be banned from the United States entirely. Not long ago, the current President of the United States, Joe Biden, signed into law into law.
The United States, which has always been inefficient, is like a divine help in dealing with TikTok, and it takes less than two months from drafting to finalization, so why is the United States so in a hurry to ban TikTok?
Is TikTok's exodus decided?
According to the bill, TikTok's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, has 270 days to sell, which is 9 months... The deadline is January 19, 2025. Of course, the bill also says that if TikTok has made some progress in selling, DDL can be added by another 90 days.
But after 360 days, we don't know who is sitting in office~ After all, the current public support of Wang is not inferior to Biden.
For the ultimatum of the United States, TikTok did not say that it would walk away, but that it would take legal action against the bill.
TikTok's CEO, Zhou Shouzi, told users, "Don't worry: we're not leaving. ”
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We are confident that we will continue to fight for your rights in court.
The facts and the constitution are on our side, and we hope for victory.
Ou-chan has been able to make up for the current appearance of US government officials, with about three points of banter, three points of coldness, three points of carelessness, and one point of seriousness, and then bring out the law against TikTok.
United States
Wait, Tik Tok!
Although the bill has been passed by the Biden administration, TikTok's current confidence is not unfounded, and Nadine Farid Johnson, director of policy at Columbia University's Knight First Amendment Institute, said the TikTok ban could be rejected by the court.
The Supreme Court's long-standing jurisprudence protects Americans' First Amendment rights, and the TikTok ban infringes on Americans' right to freedom of speech, and it doesn't really pay off. Adversaries can still buy sensitive data on Americans from data brokers on the open market.
You know, in the United States, it's a big deal to be unconstitutional. No matter what the problem is, when it comes to unconstitutionality, even the president has to weigh three points, such as the previous "Texas Lone Star Movement", Governor Abbott directly took out the constitution: "Biden, you are unconstitutional!!"
However, in the end, it will depend on whether the court will issue a temporary injunction for Tik Tok, and if it is not issued, then TikTok is still G. After all, the United States is both a referee and an athlete, who can play you America?
But then again, in the eyes of many people, TikTok is an app that is more earthy than Douyin, and the painting style is about the same as Kuaishou shortly after its birth. So why exactly is TikTok banned in the United States?
Let's talk about the important role of public opinion control in national governance
Edward Bernays, the father of public relations, wrote in his book The Making of Public Opinion
中提到的“公关理论”: "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country."
"Through well-designed propaganda and public opinion guidance, governments and businesses can shape the public's ideology and values to achieve their own goals and interests. "
It has to be admitted that in the process of national governance, public opinion control is crucial, such as helping to shape public awareness and values, maintaining social stability, enhancing the government's image and prestige, and even responding to national security challenges.
Regarding TikTok, the U.S. government has previously said that there are security and privacy concerns about TikTok, which is operated by the Chinese company ByteDance, and that user data could be accessed or misused by the Chinese government. Therefore, from a national security perspective, the U.S. government needs to take steps to ensure the protection of user data.
However, the evidence on TikTok's leakage of user data is controversial, and in 2019, the U.S. government conducted an investigation into TikTok, one of the focuses of which was the security and privacy protection of user data. While the findings were not publicly available, and while TikTok was accused of collecting a large amount of user data, including personal information, geolocation, etc. (which TikTok says is used to improve user experience and provide personalized content), the U.S. has not produced any substantial evidence, and TikTok users have positive reviews of their personal experiences, and users interviewed said they have not encountered data security or privacy issues.
On the other hand, the economic and technological competition between the United States and China is also an important background. Some policy actions may be seen as suppressing or restricting Chinese companies at the economic and technological levels. As a result, the government's actions may have taken into account factors such as national security and the regulation and restrictions on Chinese companies. To put it nicely, for the sake of the security of the U.S. government, as a small editor, this is like the second crisis handling of the United States after Huawei.
In 2018, the U.S. government feared that Huawei could be controlled or influenced by the Chinese government and thus become a tool for espionage or cyberattacks. This time for TikTok, the U.S. government began to worry about the security and privacy of user data.
Good, good, good.
Why is TikTok repeatedly troubled?
In the past, from the past few times in the United States to make TikTok difficult, we can see that the questions they raised to embarrass TikTok are just to cover up the problems they really want to cover up.
For example, at the hearing some time ago, TikTok CEO Zhou Shouzi was repeatedly asked about his nationality, and even after receiving an answer like "I am Singaporean", he was still questioned about his connection with a Chinese party. Everyone who sees this video inevitably laughs and laughs at this asking congressman, but this congressman is from Harvard, will he make this kind of mistake that we ordinary people don't make?
The headline on the front page of the New York Times bluntly stated that TikTok was troubled because it came from China.
They have been directing this contradiction to the ideology of countries and society. In fact, before I wrote this part, the editor was a little taken away by the United States...
At the moment I wrote it, I realized that maybe the United States is not afraid of "he is from China" and "TikTok may have socialist ideology", but they are afraid of "TikTok's voice is not restricted by the US government!"
It's just that they can't directly say that "Tik Tok's casual voice has affected the information acquisition and cognition of the American people", so they deliberately raised the issue to a higher level, just like every Western leader who comes to power must behave like a "fanatical anti-China element".
Although U.S. politicians have been emphasizing that they are doing it to "safeguard national security," they have not found any evidence of the so-called "threat to U.S. security" after TikTok entered the U.S. market for so long. Registered in the United States, the management is all non-Chinese, and the servers and data are also in the United States... It can be seen that the sincerity is full. Instead, TikTok has torn a corner of the American people's freedom of speech.
What exactly is TikTok spreading?
Since TikTok entered the United States, Facebook, Twitter, and reddit have all declined in views, especially Facebook.
A lot of information that would have been suppressed by the U.S. government has been released.
For example, last year's "Ohio, a train loaded with 100,000 gallons (1 million pounds) of vinyl chloride derailed, resulting in a serious vinyl chloride leak", CNN said that Ohio is not a big problem, but as a result, TikTok opened up and local people released the real situation in the local area, and another example is the absurd incident of a cat rescued after the building collapsed in Florida.
And the recent Palestinian-Israeli conflict has taken this information gap to the extreme. In the past, we all thought that the Jewish people were wise, the greatest and most innocent victims of World War II.
However, Israel, which is dominated by Zionism, has been occupying Gaza for decades and has carried out bloody repression.
They have turned Gaza into an open-air prison, they have turned the people who originally lived in this land into refugees, they have bombed the humanitarian organizations such as Médecins Sans Frontières and the World Central Kitchen, they have lured refugees with food and then carried out concentrated shooting, they have spared no effort to kill women and children, and they have carried out "genocide" operations.
More than half a year has passed since October 7, 2023, when the Palestinian people waited for a ceasefire resolution in Gaza and for Israel to further expand the situation in the Middle East, not only because of the efforts of the UN Security Council, but also because they never gave in. Every living Palestinian is a terrorist, because there is no other way for them.
And these messages in the mainstream media in the United States, such as Facebook and Twitter, will be throttled... Not to mention any CNN, AP, FOX. Therefore, when we look at public opinion in the United States, it sometimes seems so divided, such as the recent "anti-Israel upsurge in elite colleges and universities in the United States", college students have learned the truth about what is happening in Palestine and Israel, but the American people are still confused, and they are dragged by the government to support Israel.
In this Palestinian-Israeli war, Tiktok presented the world with the truth of the war that is different from all previous Western mainstream media, and students from Columbia, Yale, Stanford, Berkeley, Boston and other schools are taking action. Some students left a message to PP saying "The students in our school have been punished, but they don't regret it".
Because the "freedom of speech" that the American people are proud of has never been the truth, they are just restricted by another kind of wall, living in a "Truman's world".
Is Freedom of Speech in the United States Just a Bubble?
For a long time, when we talk about the United States on the other side of the ocean, there will be such a few key words "freedom of speech", "happy education", "separation of powers", "democracy", "openness and inclusiveness", but with the frequent exchanges in the world and the high development of informatization, most of these filters have been broken.
It is open and inclusive, but people who are "biological males and psychological women" can claim to be "female" and encroach on the resources of "biological women"; Of course, the most disappointing thing is that "freedom of speech in the United States seems to have been screened."
Former U.S. President Donald Trump was banned from social media platforms at will during his tenure, and Musk also said after taking over Twitter that all social media platforms in the United States cooperate with U.S. government agencies to censor content.
Every social media company is heavily involved in the government's strict content censorship, and sometimes there are explicit directives from the government. For example, Google often makes linking pages disappear.
He has slammed speech restrictions on the platform, vowing not to make Twitter a "hell" of misinformation.
I hope that even the harshest critics of me will stay on Twitter, because that's what free speech means, and free speech is the cornerstone of an effective democracy.
According to an investigation by independent American journalist Matt Taibbi -
Twitter executives regularly meet with officials from the FBI, CIA, and other U.S. intelligence agencies. Not only Twitter, but also the U.S. government has ties to "almost every big tech company," including Facebook, Microsoft, Verizon, the largest mobile operator in the United States, and the social networking site Reddit.
As for Musk's attitude, Stephen Scheeler, the former CEO of Facebook Australia and New Zealand, believes that Twitter's prospects have the potential to affect the future of the entire social media industry.
He thinks that-
If you look at the whole situation now, the three biggest social media platforms in the world, one controlled by China, one controlled by Mark Zuckerberg, and one controlled by Elon Musk. I'm not sure if this is the best environment for social media.
Oh, and because Musk is defending free speech, I'm not sure if that's the best environment for social media. Because "freedom of speech" has never been "the best environment for social media in the West".
They and we all live in a world behind a filter.
I think we all need media like TikTok to tear apart a little bit of truth, rather than always clinging to a bit of self-righteous truth, and that's not bad for the American people outside the wall, but it's also true for us inside the wall.
国家是权力和控制的象征，它的存在是为了维持自身的利益。 因此，政府可能会采取措施来保护自己的权力和统治地位，甚至通过控制信息和舆论来维护自身的权威。 尼采在《查拉图斯特拉如是说》曾说, "The state is the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies, too; and this lie creeps from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people.'"
"The state is the coldest of all the cold monsters. It is also a cold-hearted liar; This lie crawled out of its mouth: 'I, the country, am the people.' ’”
Even if life is really bad, I want to live in a real world.
Now that American colleges and universities have been torn apart, is the United States still far away?