Tiktok kan bli beroendeframkallande på bara 35 minuter, det enligt dokument som avslöjats i en rättegång mot dess Kinabaserade ägare, Bytedance. NTD pratade med Rex Lee, cybersäkerhetsrådgivare på My Smart Privacy, för att prata om farorna med den sociala medier-appen.
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Greg Slee, thank you so much for joining us. Great to have you back on the show.
Thank you for having me on the show, Tiffany.
When it comes to TikTok, lots of reporting points that it was actually started under the MSS or
Beijing's security and intelligence agencies, and ByteDance would never sell it.
How concerning is that to you? What is at the heart of this?
Well, before I get into that, let's look at who Meta is, the developers of Facebook
and Instagram, and let's frankly look at Alphabet, the parent company of Google.
These companies started off to be data brokers. They are first and foremost a data broker.
That's their business model. So they're the ones who are making billions of dollars
from these app developers from adversarial countries and distribute them.
They're beholding to the governments in those oppressive countries,
such as the Chinese government and the CCP.
It's been well known for a long time and published by Bloomberg several years ago that
these companies have to have a member of the Chinese government on their board.
And I can guarantee you that that government member is beholden to the Chinese Communist Party
and ByteDance is one of those companies. So you can now see where if you go back to your
question about the dangers of the algorithm that they don't want to expose or sell,
then you have to ask, why was it developed? Let's say they do sell TikTok.
Who's going to stop another Chinese company from developing the next new
social media platform? And then they just incorporate that weaponized algorithm
in their social media platform. It's a never ending process.
Lately, we're seeing more and more lawsuits against TikTok. TikTok is also suing the state.
But with this latest round of lawsuits, you have states like California, New York. This is
in terms of children's privacy. But given this latest round of lawsuits from 13 states plus
Washington, D.C., in your view, what are the lawsuits missing here?
They're missing the target 100 percent. And this is more about extorting billions of dollars from
ByteDance than it is about solving the problem. So what I believe needs to happen here is that
states have to go back and include other companies because the same technologies
that are built into TikTok are built into Facebook and Instagram and any other app or
platform that's highly addictive. That's the problem. It's tech addiction. That's the problem.
And they're missing the boat by just trying to pick on one company. And rightfully so,
they should continue on with the lawsuit with ByteDance. But they need to include
the other social media platform developers. Rexley, thank you so much for joining us.
Thank you.
