Tik Tok is Generic Name for Short Videos

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America banned Tik Tok on phones and computers used by government workers because it believes China can use it to siphon sensitive information that will compromise U.S. national security. Tik Tok and YouTube have the same content. In fact, YouTube and Google set the DNA for data type and size. I’m not even comfortable saying that because I don’t speak Chinese languages.

Maybe, there’s a Chinese version of YouTube. I don’t know. Not speaking or reading a word, of languages spoken by a country of 1.5 billion people, is ignorance. Maybe it’s that ignorance that led to the U.S. Tik Tok ban. Tik Tok is an app, but the U.S. regards it as a spy for the Chinese government. Is YouTube a spy for the U.S. government? No, it’s not.

China can retaliate and ban YouTube but it doesn’t have time to waste. There’s nothing China wants from the U.S. China is the tech giant. It produces steel, some of which ends up in that phone you carry. China is a communist country that has business fans in all capitalist countries. American investors moved manufacturing to China leaving American workers in the lurch.

Let’s say China wanted to steal some information to physically attack the U.S. Would it use a tiny app like Tik Tok? That’s the problem right there. Tik Tok is not tiny. It represents Chinese genius.That’s why America is scared of it.

YouTube knows the Tik Tok ban is futile but it doesn’t call the U.S. government to order. YouTube came up with YouTube Shorts because it was losing traffic to Tik Tok. This ban might prompt users to support the persecuted, which is Tik Tok.

By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.

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