Is there anything actually interesting in these? It seems like it's just a document that formalizes talking points for main issues/questions they get. Talking points they've actively used!<p>I don't get why this is salacious. That TikTok PR thinks about these things? That TikTok PR tries to get people in the company aligned on how to respond? Thats what PR does. It'd be WAY weirder if they didn't.<p>If this document had "The Chinese Government reads all of your posts", I'd say there's something here. However, all this doc that says is stuff like "our CEO is American" and the only leaked out info is basically "The daily spending limit is $1000."<p>Watergate, this ain't. Yawn
It has been irreversibly admitted. We can see that this trojan horse is getting blown up before it has hit the public markets.<p>Just like the lies they said about accessing US data from China after yet another leak [0], no sentence can be believed from them at all and like Facebook, they should be fined in the billions.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/tiktok-tapes-us-user-data-china-bytedance-access" rel="nofollow">https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/tiktok-...</a>
The more i read about it, the more it feels like the leak is not a leak and the narative is being fabricated<p>Either china has no security at all, or "some people" are actively spying on them and trying to hack them
From the Gizmodo article, some statements from TikTok:<p>> “There’s a lot of misinformation about TikTok right now. The reality is that the TikTok app isn’t even available in China."<p>Yes it is, it's just called Douyin there. It's got different content but due to the language barrier none of that would be interesting in western markets anyway.<p>> "We have not and will not share user data with the Chinese government, and would not do so if asked.” TikTok used this one in response to BuzzFeed News."<p>Right, A Chinese company standing up to the CCP. Good luck with that. Remember Jack Ma? I wonder if he does.<p>I agree this doc doesn't really prove they do associate with the CCP either. This is just spin doctor stuff, the stuff they want us to beieve. But it doesn't prove whether that's true or not.<p>But this is the thing, in China every company follows CCP rules. It's just how things work over there. <i>Especially</i> with social media companies because the CCP is really worried about citizens organising themselves. They take a lot of control over those.<p>I'm sure in the western world with "National Security Letters" things work the same way. But at least there is some kind of oversight and people speaking out. No I don't trust Facebook or Google any more than I trust TikTok and I minimise the use of services from either. But at least Facebook and Google are from a country I'm more morally aligned with.<p>PS: I don't even use TikTok because I know I will hate the service. I hate the whole 'funny videos' category and videos in general. I don't even use YouTube much. But I was considering buying a Pico 3 headset before.