Is the TikTok furor just yellow racism?

[OddBeMe]

The CEO is from Singapore.

TikTok has national security problems (What are they?)

Yeah…seems like anti-Asian racist nonsense

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[tremendousfern]

The TikTok furor is because it's a very popular social media platform that isn't beholden to American intelligence agencies. That's more or less all there is to it.

[OddBeMe]

Are any of them beholden to feds?

[Juxtapose]

Absolutely lol.

[tremendousfern]

@OddBeMe All of them are, as well as all traditional media. Traditional media especially has been a propaganda mouth piece for many decades as was brought to light by the Church Committee investigations in the seventies and nothing has changed since then.

The perspective of the elites is that propaganda and mass psychological manipulation are essential tools in a functioning democracy. Books such as "Crystallizing Public Opinion" and "Propaganda" by Edwards Bernays outline and advocate for this belief.

[OtterMan68]

When Sen Tom Cotton from Arkansas repeatedly asked the CEO about any ties to the Chinese Communist Party it was