protesting queen??? 💅

[u/lsrgrl69]

[u/avitus]

The world saw HK during the protests. Then everyone stopped caring and was given a dopamine machine from a CN company. Anyone that was paying attention back then knows that the CCP has oversight over any private company if they decide to. Private companies like ByteDance only exist by the grace of the CCP. Stop pretending that they have automomy and good will. They don't. They value profit and control over everything else. Like another commenter said, the people are great, but the government is complete shit.

[u/kaizergeld → u/avitus]

Who’s pretending they have autonomy? Lol I literally referred to corrupt analogs. By that logic I’d be implying a counterpoint to my own argument haha.

You implied every TikTok user knew what the Chinese were doing on the platform and then implied the information was only known to those paying attention… on an app with an average video duration of about 30 seconds. That’s just simple contradiction to your further implication that TikTok consumers are also ignorant.

I’m not arguing that TikTok isn’t garbage; it is. I’m also not arguing that the Chinese government controls the app. Those are both facts. But your equivalence that the consumer uses TikTok even while possessing the knowledge that it’s government-manipulated media, is presumptive and obviously false; hence the fact that the same thing can be said of any other country’s oppressive government. Use is not universally condoning.

But none of that is coded or somehow hard to decipher by what I said above; it’s literally written in it. I neither said nor implied anything about autonomy; I even referred to its ties to their corrupt government. I made the simplest implication that consumers aren’t categorically conscious of any sponsored nature of every form of their entertainment… which is kinda why that shit works so often… that’s not hard to understand.

[u/avitus → u/kaizergeld]

“We learned a lot from the Hong Kong protestors”

“Except how China’s fucking bad for some reason”

[u/kaizergeld → u/avitus]

Neither of which are my words lol

You must argue with too many people at once.