A corner of the internet is dominated by digital tycoons - Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google - and now TikTok.
A corner of the internet is dominated by digital tycoons - Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google - and now TikTok. Dr Chunmeizi Su from the Discipline of Media and Communications says if we're voting yes for a TikTok ban, we're voting for a new digital cold war, further away from the globalised internet as it should be. Any ban on TikTok ignores the bigger issue of who should control personal data in the first place: the individuals who use any app. The US sees TikTok as having inseparable ties with the Chinese state. The main concern is the concept of data security or the nationalist idea of data sovereignty. Realistically it appears geopolitical tensions are the real issue. TikTok is another frontline in the US-China technological struggle for online dominance.
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