The questioning of TikTok CEO Shou Chew's nationality is a haunting reminder of anti-communist hysteria and is a harbinger of a 'third red scare' in America
Tik Tok is Chinese owned and controlled. Similarly to Jack Ma's removal from (AliExpress?) the CCP apparently recently cleared out the founder CEO of Tik Tok for not toeing the party line. It is far from a level field competitor with the tacit control and backing of the CCP.
Having seen their manufacturing base hollowed out by the Chinese the Americans should be wary of Tik Tok. There are a great many questions to be asked of Tik Tok; it's ownership or more strictly it's control. It's financial status, and the way it handles data. Perhaps we should assume until proved otherwise that it is a hostiler government sponsored and controlled entity aiming to dominate the remaining Big Tech markets that American companies currently control.
The Americans are far from saintly wee choir boys in these terms - they have very close security links with Big Tech; but they are sort our SOB's and don't come close to the Chinese in terms of brutality and capacity for using human suffering for political ends.
The spectacle was unpleasant but I think that a Chinese government controlled company breaking into a vital American commercial area can expect hard questions.
Calling it a Red Scare like it is all smell with no rot feels unbalanced.
Tik Tok is Chinese owned and controlled. Similarly to Jack Ma's removal from (AliExpress?) the CCP apparently recently cleared out the founder CEO of Tik Tok for not toeing the party line. It is far from a level field competitor with the tacit control and backing of the CCP.
Having seen their manufacturing base hollowed out by the Chinese the Americans should be wary of Tik Tok. There are a great many questions to be asked of Tik Tok; it's ownership or more strictly it's control. It's financial status, and the way it handles data. Perhaps we should assume until proved otherwise that it is a hostiler government sponsored and controlled entity aiming to dominate the remaining Big Tech markets that American companies currently control.
The Americans are far from saintly wee choir boys in these terms - they have very close security links with Big Tech; but they are sort our SOB's and don't come close to the Chinese in terms of brutality and capacity for using human suffering for political ends.
The spectacle was unpleasant but I think that a Chinese government controlled company breaking into a vital American commercial area can expect hard questions.
Calling it a Red Scare like it is all smell with no rot feels unbalanced.