HACKER Q&A
📣 frozencell

Why isn't TikTok owned by the U.S. government?


If TikTok is a national security threat, don't we have gov reports of 1) the backdoors of the app 2) detailled understanding of shareholders and their action scope, (3) purchase of shareholders voting power?

Does the U.S. government asks Google to make YouTube shorts better than TikTok?


  👤 liberia Accepted Answer ✓
TikTok is Chinese malware masquerading as a friendly social media app that people use for giggles when waiting for the bus or loafing at work. It’s a Trojan horse firmly embedded in the US with no oversight or regulation. And the amount of data it grabs behind the scenes is astonishing.

👤 ksherlock
Pepperidge Farm remembers when Donald Trump tried to ban Tik Tok and force a sale to Oracle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump–TikTok_controvers...


👤 gc22browsing
The US govt outsources software development to the big consulting firms. Any one of them would take 5 years and $10B to create an equivalent app. And then it would only run with Microsoft Explorer (not Edge).

👤 Pakdef
How do you know they don't?

👤 xster
Why isn't Twitter owned by the Chinese government?

👤 bediger4000
That would be socialism.