Russia has tried to mimic USA's power within it's society for a long time. Putin has tried just about everything, so what is left is to control society through cyberwarfare.
China is more about the economy and how to control the USA economy and/or mimic it enough to outperform the USA economy and instill Chinese currency as the world standard.
No matter how one looks at Tik Tok it is about information. That information is readily available to anyone that cares to seek it out. The bigger issue is that in order to use the app there is a cost to be paid and that is true for any online service. The service has the right to obtain whatever information it can to use for its own purposes.
Tik Tok is a Chinese product. Remove it from whatever electronic device it is on in the USA. If Europe allows it then remove it there as well. There was supposed to be a deadline to allow Tik Tok into the USA, but, the spineless administration of Trump never carried through with it. It must be service his purpose as well. That alone is a reason to remove it from any personal electronic devices.
It is amazing to realize Edward Snowden is banished from the USA to Russia, only to realize Tik Tok has taken over. All that scandal on Wiki has no basis in legal courts since the American people decided Tik Tok can have whatever information it wants. Amazing. Simple ignorance and what the USA government wants from them doesn't amount to anything close to what China gets from Americans every day.
By Bill Whitaker
The Trump administration (click here) was set to ban TikTok, the wildly popular Chinese-owned mobile phone application, until Friday when the short-form video service was granted a two-week reprieve by the U.S. government to find an American buyer. That means TikTok will keep running on 100 million American devices.
And that's been the administration's worry, claiming that TikTok, "Automatically captures vast swaths of information from its users… potentially allowing China to track the locations of federal employees… conduct corporate espionage" or even "blackmail." President-elect Biden has called the Chinese-owned app "a matter of genuine concern." TikTok says that's all "unfounded," that it's a platform for creativity and free expression. So we wanted to know if TikTok is merely a pawn in the great power rivalry between the U.S. and China, or a genuine threat....
