For the last time, what you see and interact with on Tik Tok does not mean that is everybody's experience with the app. The Chinese Government is still collecting data on you, illegally, and readding all your web traffic and text messages. It just means you are not the target for their nefarious purposes.
In fact, most people who use Tik Tok are just normal people who see cat videos no different than
@Archy1221's kids. But what the Chinese are going to figure out, if they haven't already, is that certain people (young or extremely old) are heavily influenced by whatever propaganda slop they're fed. You do not need to weaponize every user of the app, only those that:
1. Are influenced by it.
2. Take extreme political positions because of it.
Most people don't think that vaccines are harmful, for example, but because a small number of extremely stupid people interact with social media - Tik Tok being the worst offender - this is now a partisan battle in the never ending culture war. You probably don't get anti-vaccine videos on your feed because you are not a moron, but a lot of people do. And they get angry. And they vote. The same is true for a number of issues - fluoride in water, genocide in Gaza, drones over New Jersey, there are an endless amount of things that a small but not insignificant number of people just don't have the mental capacity to cope with. All of this, of course, is on top of deeply illegal data harvesting.
@Archy1221
I do think that a large part of the youth backlash was anti-woke stuff, even most woke issues are underwater with registered Democrats! What is not explained is how youth voters, who for 60 years have voted much more left than the general public and are the least politically engaged demographic in the country
suddenly voted 43 points to the right compared to 4 years ago. This Demographic just so happens to cite Tik Tok as their primary "news". That kind of thing doesn't happen in a vaccum. Even in the event of a 9/11 type of unifying scenario, I don't know if you'd see that kind of swing.
He can be as partisan as he wants because his horde of barely mentally functioning stupid people are going to support his every move. It doesn't matter if he engages in multiple crypto pump and dump schemes, as long as the libs cry about it that's all that really matter.
