TikTok is fighting to stay alive in the United States as pressure builds in Washington to ban the app if its Chinese owners don’t sell the company. But the wildly popular platform, developed with homegrown Chinese technology, isn’t accessible in China. In fact, it’s never existed there. Instead, there’s a different version of TikTok — a sister app called Douyin. Both are owned by Beijing-based parent company ByteDance, but Douyin launched before TikTok and became a viral sensation in China.
In-app shopping is made easy: Products and discounts are displayed on-screen during livestreams, with purchases just a swipe or a click away. Censorship is rampant China has one of the world’s strictest censorship regimes, and Douyin must follow the rules. Internet watchdogs crack down regularly on online dissent and block politically sensitive information. When CNN searched “Tiananmen 1989” in Douyin, nothing came up.
It is very clear why it exists here. Very.
China is already capturing all their data.
Because China has more students learning English and STEM than the entire US population - that's why. They are coming for your woke kids and turn them into coolies.
In such a discriminative business environment, it only makes sense to avoid and hardest where better footing and common understanding are available to grow opportunities. Let ‘project Texas’ pass and let the congress explain to the jobless people there.
SO CNN is REALLY Chinese News Network after all! Explains the Red.
They don't want their youth to be like Americas.
Where are you taking this narrative!! You well know it’s in China under a different name unless that’s also a crime according to your selective law
Every app you use is spying on you, twitter, gmail, youtube, you name it!
China doesn’t like their citizens informed. Apparently neither does America
Because the Chinese government hopes that China's Internet is an island that is not influenced by the West. Just like the United States in 1900, it was independent of Europe and focused on developing itself.
meta
And no other social media platforms also..... So China at least is fair and didn't make an exception because tik tok is Chinese....
TikTok is the international version without spyware. The domestic version full of spyware is reserved to spy on own citizens.
End the trade war
If you don't want TikTok, then don't download it. If you don't want your kids to have TikTok then don't let them download it. Is parenting still a thing? With all these tantrums adults are having recently, I'm starting to wonder if parenting is still a thing.
China don't need Tiktok because they already have app to spy on their people. U.S. already has NSA to spy it citizen without app.
Exactly the point.
Because they are smart
They have an app that the exact same with a different name made by the exact same company. Just a little research would show you that. 'there's a different version of TikTok — a sister app called Douyin.'
Why didn't this article appear 5 years ago.
It’s designed to make the west stupid and it’s a resounding success.
Makes sense - they already have data on all of their citizens.
Oh, you know why.
BanTikTok
Wut? It’s still TikTok. They just call it something else. You know like a woman.
Democrats are pro-China
….😂
They don’t need to spy on themselves!
This article reads like an advertisement for Tiktok. Who does CNN work for?
China tracks participants, Chinese people do not want to go to jail or die of a mysterious death. China steals data, credit card info, account s and personal habits…leading to identity theft opportunities. Americans are childish, liberally active and ignorant easy targets.
it’s a spy tool by ccp for the free world. India has done the right thing by banning it directly
Because it's brain rott.
TikTok is going to be banned since Facebook etc wants to ban TikTok only. The US companies have lost to TikTok in competition. If the US companies can't win, lobby the Congress to ban the competitors. What a great free market!
Who cares? Y’all act like fucking Facebook and Instagram and Google etc don’t still you’re data and shit
Because China is doing what some in the US would like to do with some pretend National security threat that's why
Do you need me to answer that for you?
Police Misconduct in Warren County KY needs investigated. A special detail maybe? 152248 gmp is a civil rights report by me. Johnathan Buford about police misconduct on April 19, 2022.
😂 What a fool you are…
They built douyin first, it worked well, they thought they could introduce a global version to the world, that's it. Douyin is very much geared towards e-commerce and the content irrelevant to non-Chinese.
The China version is DouYin. You either didn't do the research or you are knowingly spreading misinformation. Do better.
China can never allowed too much freedoms in Apps like TikTok so is US going to be like China banning TikTok, too or the reason isnt the same but a weapon to hit Chinese companies.
bcs CCP doesn't want CN people to have access to truth，thats why the Firewall was built
They use another versions, an identical twins Dou Yin.
It can sway elections, it can dictate what youngsters watch and subtly sway them whichever way chinese want em to
Tit tok didn't spread black hatred in America white households did..ban teaching white children hatred in white homes..ban that!
Chinese never use thing which they introduce outside China
Because its only intended to get the information & monitor people outside of the mainland. They have thir own local app to monitor their own people. Its just a facade to make people think that it's a safe app
CNN🤣
Because it is dumbing down our youth and spying on your info. This is old news.
False
It was developed under a different name .Douyin ..and split ..for China consumption...and the rest of the world ..got tik tok
I just want to know how much money Meta and other silicon techies are dumping into this blatant attempt at crushing competition that they will never meet fairly. That’s all this is.
I think what’s more alarm is the deafening silence of our own Chinese citizens regarding this manner! They know what’s going on and are in constant contact with family back home.
But but let's keep it in the US so we can continue to be spied on by Chinese government so teens can have a place to post their dance videos
Must ban TikTok. The CEO of TikTok 周受资 is secret CCP member. Brainwashing your next generation is a 100-year plan of the CCP China, just like COVID-19。
The ignorance and selflessness of the west will lead to its downfall eventually. You can’t reason in this era that everything superior has to come from you. Accept that TIKTOK AIS BETTER AND POPULAR than your APPS. you won’t die for once
Easy answer, because dictatorial nations do not allow outside influences on their people.
Same reason China is putting in rail systems in Africa, buying up farmland, commercial buildings, and homes in the US.
CNN你能不能有点水准啊，怎么搞的跟那些阴阳怪气的恨国党一个德行真是无语都不想关注你了
Learn some Chinese
Idk about you guys but when I visited China in 2018 I made TikToks with the girls we did the exchange with so …. Idk
It's called DouYin in China, it's for propaganda for domestic audiences and TikTok is propaganda for foreign audiences.
If you believe there bull I've got a BRIDGE IN BROOKLYN I want to sell you.
Unless they sell? That is the point. The west is just being a bully.
Thanks for making it more clear as to how it's dangerous
Interesting that the CNN is publishing this why do they want us to get rid of TikTok? Is it because of all the information we see?
Wrong again😳🙈 Spreading lies and disinformation daily… Now here’s a real story
Trump said all of this years ago but liberals are hacks that follow what their media shepherds tell them.
That proves it is not a spyware platform. China, above all else, controls it's populace through the prevalent collection of evry last word every Chinese citizen posts, says in a phone call, says in public etc. Tik-Tok would be a huge tool to efficiently profile Chinese citizens.
It does and it’s called Douyin, what the fuck you are talking? Your research is made by pigeons?
Shouldn’t that be a sign that it’s good?😂
中国也有抖音
Problem with Chinese owned comoanies are first: the Communist Oarty of China can demand sensitive info, two: they can use the company in whatever they want , three: the can control the company as they see fit! Any questions?
China only wants to dumb down Americans, not it's own ppls
because Chinese government won't allow its citizens to view any content posted by foreigners
Y’all gotta figure out some other shit to worry about.
Oppressive dictatorship regime.
Guess why.
Tells you a whole lot when the owner of the company doesn't let his own children get on tick tock. Just like the CEO of the company that made the vaccine doesn't give the vaccine to his own kids. You people try real hard to avoid the truth what's with you CNN tell the TRUTH.
They do, it’s just not called TikTok, it’s called Douyin over there.
🚨🚨🚨🚨Misinformation tweet. 🚨🚨🚨🚨
They have Chinese TikTok, and English TikTok. You people should just leave TikTok alone. US government are just jealous they are not the owner of the app. There is Facebook and many English social media apps everywhere. USA can’t have the world alone to their self.
It is probably called something different in Chinese. And probably is very different.
That is not true. That's why you must stick to reporting train accidents.
its only to collect all info around the world. listening to every user and watching every user. so they wouød know what to use against the rest of the world
I thought they have a separate filtered app that mimics tiktok. Practically removing all of Anti China Propaganda and destabilization stuff.
If China bans TikTok, should US and the rest of the world too?
Because they know they can sell anything to greedy west population. We need to abandon this platform!
May be Chinese government knows that TikTok is dangerous to Chinese people ?
The Chinese government is more than enough to carry out large scale surveillance on its citizens. It doesn't need the help of any app.
The US doesn't like competition
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