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The problem with the Chinese government/legal system is well known for long and most Chinese people wish it can improve over time. It is weird to see that some people in the US wants to celebrate and justify the deterioration of their designed-to-be-perfect system.
The TikTok app is served by the US data center operated by a team in the US. If they violate any US law, federal regulators can find out and punish TikTok based on evidence like how they fined Facebook. Being owned by the CCP doesn't mean that they cannot obey US law. And it is really hard to imagine how CCP can harm the interests of the US people with those short fun videos. Does Trump believe virus spreads via these short videos?
Many american companies seem to collaborate successfully with this communist regime including but not limited to Apple, Microsoft, Amazon. Even Google still has Google Ads platform operating in China.
Us companies like Facebook and Twitter had a chance to operate in China as long as they were willing to follow local laws/policies; they were banned because they didn’t want to cooperate. On the other hand, TikTok seems willing to obey us laws and is bringing its team/data center into the us. Banning TikTok in spite of that sounds similar to injecting disinfectant for COVID
Oh, and as we've observed before in mohawk, the final page is absolutely delightful. I'm told this particular author's entry was subsequently removed. Hm, let's see what the PR person says. So, other ideas that I want to mention: There's an entry with a huge crop of people pasted in, but other than that, the input is pretty sporadic. Maybe they could be arranged and directed? There's an odd history at the top of the list. Some of these people are that Waylon Jennings. People have been discussed pretty tightly, but that's enough to suggest they're part of that: "Vokoun" and "Carter" seem pretty stable. I can't help but wonder if the "Vokoun" entries could come from the Vokoun journal itself, and be part of the Hall of Mirrors.
It might be that an API that many of these apps use is using this feature.