Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, spurred a creator economy with more than 700 million active users. The social media video app, owned by ByteDance has parental controls and even time limits. NBC News’ Janis Mackey Frayer details concerns the U.S. has over the platform’s Chinese ownership.
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“Heavily censored apps” while America is literally using the FBI like facebook and YouTube, twitter before musk.
😂😂😂😂. It is so funny.. Calling Douyin the Chinese version of TikTok. The desperate need of Western Media to be "better than China". 😅😅. CNBC is pretending that TikTok is not an off-shoot of Douyin to booster its delusional ego.
Is TikTok forcing you to learn Chinese or you think Chinese people care who your next president is? what is the national security threat? To show what the real China looks like is an national security threat to US? or to show what people wants to see is an national security threat? what about YouTuBe? Facebook? IG?
If Brazil can ban Twitter/X, the US can ban Tiktok. Simple. Whoever blocks the ban is childish. India (1.4 billion people) can ban Tiktok, so can the US. The Chinese government is found so upset about the ban, it indicates that Tiktok could be secretly used by the CCP to do illegal things in the US. China has 1.4 billion people, the US only has 340 million people. Tiktok/Douyin can survive without the US. So just ban Tiktok already.
И так уже все как зомби тыкают в свои телефоны…
US hegemony can't resist
We Americans are becoming the butt of everyone's jokes… It's ridiculous.
TikTok is banned in china ,is not chinese company
When the controversy on TikTok started growing, Meta shares started rising
Access your data to do what?? China has no history of making regime change, color revolution or assassination of foreign political leaders. If really they get the data of African leader, what will they do. How can they be a national security threat to other countries. On the other hand if the CIA get the data, the GPS location of foreign leaders, …..
The US politicians are the true threat to national security in America.
lol basically forcing the Chinese to sell their golden goose. Daylight robbery.
LETS BLAME CHINA FOR AMERICA'S NOT INTERESTED IN PHYSICS MATH AND CHEMISTRY..TIK TOK IS NOT A PARENT. AMERICANS CARE MORE ABOUT SPORTS KARDASHIAN THAN OTHER NATONS. THAT'S NOT CHINA'S PROBLEM.
AS AM AMERICAN BUSINESS MAN WHO HAVE TRAVELLED GLOBALLY, MY BIGGEST WISH IS MY COUNTRY TO JOIN THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY PROMOTING PEACE TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. WE AMERICAN BUSINESS MAN AND WOMEN NEED THE GLOBAL MARKET. WE ARE NOT THE CENTER OF THE WORLD ANY MORE. FIGHTING TO PROTECT THE AMERICA MARKET IN A WORLD OF 8 BILLION PEOPLE IS PURE ECONOMIC LUNACY AND BUSINESS STUPIDITY.
THE CHINESE ARE PEOPLE TOO JUST LIVING THEIR LIFE'S RAISING THEIR CHILDREN GOING TO WORK, PAYING BILLS AND ENJOYING ENTERTAINMENT LIKE PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD..THE U.S IS ONLY 336 MILLION PEOPLE IN A WORLD OF 8 BILLION PEOPLE..THAT IS 4%.OF THE GLOBAL POPULATION.
Nice soft propaganda
So dumb. China has is own domestic laws for media so the company complies. If the US made rules like the Chinese do like no kids can watch certain content then they'll also comply for the US version. They just need clarity, so stop with the Chinese exporting poison while keeping good stuff at home story. Nobody buys it.
Hillbilly NBC taking about Chinese again
at least nobody study sapce engineering at douyin in china. America,China perfer to give data to dog rather than you..
The jews will never get their dirty hand on Ticktock.
"heavily censored" in China…Like US social media is not censored???? More US propaganda.
You went to China and you know the truth. Why lying in the end of the vid?
Vine you were gone too soon
It's a national threat because it doesn't allow backdoor for the a ( Fake) "Freedom and Democratic" government lol.