Does TikTok need Wifi? ft. Chris Stokel-Walker
Added 2023-04-07 09:53:42 +0000 UTCThis week, we're joined by Journalist and Author Chris Stokel-Walker to dissect the recent congressional hearing as part of the ongoing effort to ban TikTok, where multiple geriatric congressmen and women "grilled" the CEO of TikTok, Mr Shou Zi Chew, about various petty gripes and misapprehensions about how technology works. But, hidden within the deluge of baffling questions and supervillain monologues were a number of genuinely interesting questions that bear further discussion.
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Something I’ve been meaning to mention is that “Shou Zi Chew is Singaporean, not Chinese” is… not entirely accurate. Shou Zi Chew is Singaporean, yes, but he is, indeed, ethnically Chinese (as are over 75% of Singaporeans). The population of Singapore, like that of Malaysia, is predominantly either Chinese, Malay, or Indian, with those groups legally defined by the government. (The reason Singapore is no longer part of Malaysia is that Malaysia disliked the political power of Singapore’s Chinese community. Singapore was literally expelled from Malaysia.) That said, the relationship of the PRC with diaspora Chinese people (who are not PRC citizens) can be… fractious at times. (Though, to be clear, the PRC does not claim Singapore as part of China in the same way it does with Taiwan.) So it is correct to say that Shou Zi Chew is both (ethnically) Chinese and not (PRC) Chinese at the same time. (Of course, the racist angle, portraying him and TikTok more broadly as a sort of “Fu Manchu”, really doesn’t dwell on this distinction.)
Elsie Hupp
2023-05-06 02:01:29 +0000 UTCWe have tiktok at home Tiktok at home:
Jordan Clementi
2023-04-09 16:23:05 +0000 UTCit strikes me that US conservatives' fear of TikTok may have some similarities to some of the conservative fears of the EU here in Britain - as a foreign institution, it's much less susceptible to the local patronage and influence networks that elites use to get their way
Nemo
2023-04-08 15:38:16 +0000 UTC
