30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok

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30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok
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They're both focused on profit. The only reason you see the other one as scary is because it's owned by the scary scary Chinese. Red scare all over again.

No tiktok is not focused on profit. It literally has one of the worst/non existent monetization systems.

Yup, vine ripoff with some tweaks and the same monetization issue

Case in point. Vine literally can't survive and so shouldn't TikTok. Unless of course it's getting propped up by a government with endless funds and not focused on profits.

Why are you so convinced that an advertising platform that a 1/3rd of the country is glued to is unsustainable. And that's ignoring the rest of the world, which is the majority of their user base.

The same reason why twitter was NEVER profitable and it had more eyes glued to it. World presidents were using twitter for announcements. Never profitable.

What's the connection between Uber and China, then? I thought it was somewhat common for tech companies to be unprofitable for very long periods of time backed only by capital, but it may be China. Has anyone looked into this? Does Xi know what I like to order on weekends? Why haven't we banned this yet

I wouldn't consider Uber. This is closer to Vine vs TikTok. And we all know what happened to Vine.

Why is Chinese tiktok different than that in the states then?

Because the USA strong armed them into giving their platform handling to Oracle Corp, a top tier US govt contractor.

But since pro-palestine cries can't be silenced on TikTok as easily as Zio media, taking control of the platform is no longer enough

No, it's literally a different app in China.

It's the same thing, the international one was called TikTok and the US version is handled by Oracle

It's called douyin or something idk in China but it's the same shit

You say “red scare” as if China isn’t a hostile nation state to the US. Go look at western company penetration in China if you want. Are you calling it “western scare” when China blocks yet another western company? I didn’t think so.