OPINION: Most major social media apps, regardless of their country of origin, pose risks of data harvesting and content manipulation. But TikTok is different.
The enormous leverage that the CCP has over ByteDance is what drove the company to boost its army of censors by 4000 people , and it’s what continues to motivate ByteDance toIn April 2021, Beijing quietly formalised a greater role in overseeing ByteDance when state investors controlled by the party-state took a 1 per cent stake in ByteDance’s Chinese entity, Beijing ByteDance Technology, giving them veto rights over the company’s decisions.
We can’t wait for complex issues of national data governance to be resolved as part of a wider overhaul before we deal with TikTok.At the very least, we should abandon the current patchwork approach to banning the app across various agencies and government departments and introduce a blanket ban on government devices. TikTok user data is accessible to engineers based in China and the company has no plans to completely sever that access.
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