Trump holds onto his crown like a crying baby clinging onto a rattle

1. TikTok is a social video platform which allows users to create and share short videos. The apps video feature which often includes dancing or lip-synching to a soundtrack tends to be funny and weird thus drawing in a lot of users.

TikTok has more than 1.5 billion global users.

The platform which is owned by a China-based company called ByteDance gained global popularity after its merger with Musical.ly in 2018. Since then the company has grown considerably, surpassing a milestone 1.5 billion downloads on the App Store and Google Play in relatively short time....

It is my verdict that the various issues discovered about the app, though troubling, aren’t exactly peculiar to the company. Privacy problems are very common, not just with social media platforms but also big online data collection companies.

Thus, if TikTok is really as parasitic as Reddit’s Steve Huffman claims, then these other social media and big data companies are parasitic as well. But I want to believe there is more to Mr Huffman’s statement than meets the eye and that it didn’t just stem from social competition.

Source: https://technext.ng/2020/02/27/is-t...-platform-as-reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-claims/

2. TikTok is not just mindless fun or an outlet for expression but also a force to be reckoned with because it helps many people in America and other countries earn a living by bringing in a lot of cash.

One of them is 26-year-old Sean Young, who has nearly a million followers under the username @seansaucetv. Sean acts as a consultant for companies and celebs looking to build a presence on TikTok, while also running high-profile accounts like America’s Funniest Home Videos. Today, he’s pulling in $10,000 a month from being on TikTok four hours a day.


3. Those high-paid TikTokers or TikTok stars certainly curse and swear when Trump's ban on TikTok comes into effect by the middle of September. They will definitely vote against President Good Brain in the upcoming presidential election due to the threat to their livelihood posed by the ban. He does not care less because he knows he is going to lose anyway. However, like a crying baby holding a rattle tightly to his chest to prevent his elder brother from getting it, Trump is not going to let go of his crown so easily.

In his desperation, Trump seems to have found a way to overcome his agonizing dilemma by inventing the following allegations against China with the help of CIA disinformation campaigns:

(a) China does not want Trump to win reelection in November, seeing the incumbent as "unpredictable".

(b) China is targeting US election infrastructure with cyberattacks.

The CIA disinformation campaigns could be laying the groundwork for Trump the desperado to use China as a scapegoat to invalidate the election outcome if he fails in his re-election bid.



4. Trump's disregard for the interests of American TikTokers show that the so-called trade wars are just a disguise to contain China. Trade deficits and US companies' interests have been low on the priority list of America throughout the decades. In fact, US companies are the first victims as they have to forego the chance to invest or trade with any country under sanction.

By delisting Chinese companies from the US stock exchange and banning Huawei, ZTE Corporation, TikTok, WeChat and other Chinese firms from operating in the US, Trump's outrageous actions have set off alarm bells across the globe on the risks of trading with or investing in the US. For any country that has close trade ties with the US, the danger of trade disruption and sanction is present all the time, particularly under the mercurial Trump regime.

Just think what will happen if Trump suddenly orders US companies to ban software updates and upgrades, or ban the export of spare parts for planes, vehicles, machinery, etc to a particular country. The consequences for that country will be disastrous. Because of software problems and lack of spare parts, business operations in that particular country would be brought to a standstill, airlines remained grounded, factories stopped running, roads emptied of vehicles and transport disrupted, etc.

Worst of all, at a crucial time of food shortage, a sudden halt in food supply can even cause a famine and starve millions of people to death. Hence a country that depends solely on US food supply has to be mindful of falling into the American "food trap".

To the US, trade is never a win-win deal or meeting its archrival halfway but a weapon to force it into submission or exterminate it entirely. It does not matter to Uncle Sam that trade can be a double-edged sword. As long as he can cut off his archrival’s head, he does not mind losing both legs.