The information commissioner said the China-owned video app had done “very little, if anything” to check who was using the platform and remove underage users, despite internal warnings the firm was flouting its own terms and conditions
China is known for its stringent censorship regime, with popular apps like Douyin falling in line. The search term ‘Tiananmen 1989’ on Douyin did not yield any search result, CNN reported. But the same term searched on TikTok will lead to videos of users talking about the People’s Liberation Army’s brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing that year.
— Read on www.hindustantimes.com/technology/why-is-chinese-app-tiktok-inaccessible-in-china-101679819210659.html
Chinese short video app TikTok is facing a tough time globally. While it has been banned by countries like United Kingdom, Canada, France, Belgium, India and others, it is fighting to prevent itself to be banned by the United States. The Senate has already voted to ban TikTok from all government devices.
China is known for its stringent censorship regime, with popular apps like Douyin falling in line. The search term ‘Tiananmen 1989’ on Douyin did not yield any search result, CNN reported. But the same term searched on TikTok will lead to videos of users talking about the People’s Liberation Army’s brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing that year.
For some questions in life, there is only one correct answer. Questions like: Does this shirt make me look fat? Do you still love me? Do you swear to tell the whole truth and nothing but? It’s when you start quibbling over the definition of this or that word in response to those questions that you start to look like … well, like TikTok CEO Shou Chew during his testimony at a congressional hearing on Thursday. At one point, he dodged a congressman’s question about whether TikTok spies on US users by nitpicking over the choice of the word “spying.”
TikTok is a formidable tool for espionage and mass control, and the Chinese communist dictatorship could do whatever they want with it. These, in brief, are the concerns expressed by FBI director Christopher Wray while attending an event at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
— Read on www.techspot.com/news/96859-fbi-director-tiktok-could-china-best-espionage-tool.html
While local governments have been much more ambitious with their innovative regulations, causing more controversies and public pushback, the countrywide social credit system will still take a long time to materialize. And China is now closer than ever to defining what that system will look like. On November 14, several top government agencies collectively released a draft law on the Establishment of the Social Credit System, the first attempt to systematically codify past experiments on social credit and, theoretically, guide future implementation.
与该运动有关的一些账户还发布了捏造的内容,例如据称是参议员马可·卢比奥的办公室寄给人类学家阿德里安·曾茨(Adrian Zenz)的信,后者是中国对待新疆维吾尔人的著名批评者。在一个现已暂停帐户的推文中,伪造信件的三张图片试图“抹黑”人类学家 Adrian Zenz,暗示他从卢比奥和前白宫首席战略家史蒂夫班农以及共产主义受害者纪念基金会获得资金.
“Baidu Maps show that there are 38 Shandong dumpling restaurants and 67 Shanxi noodle restaurants in Taipei,” China’s foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying tweeted on Sunday.
“Palates don’t cheat. #Taiwan has always been a part of China. The long lost child will eventually return home,” said Hua, who has the @SpokespersonCHN handle on Twitter.
One of the most popular response came from Morgan Ortagus, who served as State Department spokesperson during the administration of former President Donald Trump.
“There are over 8,500 KFC restaurants in China. Palates don’t cheat. #China has always been a part of Kentucky. The long lost child will eventually return home,” Ortagus said in her now viral tweet.
In Turbulent Times, Xi Builds a Security Fortress for China, and Himself
Taiwan, Covid, “color revolutions,” the classroom: everywhere, China’s leader sees threats that foreign forces can exploit, and he has enlisted the whole nation to defend against them.
The Chinese Communist Party-tied TikTok reached the climax of its lengthy battle with the Media Research Center’s video division by entirely axing it from the platform without notice.
An MRCTV staff member opened the TikTok App to find that the account was “banned” — again — but not before the platform removed five more videos.
No 10 should follow parliament and ditch TikTok, says Tory MP
…The group, who have all been banned from China and Hong Kong, pointed to TikTok’s ownership by a Chinese company, ByteDance, and warned that under a Chinese security law, the company would be obliged to supply the personal data of users to Beijing…..
China’s cyberspace watchdog reports ‘significant results’ in online platform regulation
The Cybersecurity Administration of China said it summoned more than 3,400 internet platforms during the first half of 2022A Politburo meeting this week concluded that the government would ‘normalise’ regulatory efforts aimed at tech platforms
Ridiculous! China is promoting its propaganda in Canada campus! Chinese teacher poisoned Canada kids with Chinese movie “My People, My Country”.The movie was produced by Chinese Communist Party(CCP)with a single purpose of brainwashing people by beautifying itself
The CCP begins brainwashing their children with propaganda and forced indoctrination at a very young age. By the time they are adults, many Chinese believe the CCP is god. The few who don’t can’t say otherwise for fear of retaliation from the CCP.