How TikTok Tricked America 

Lol dude said “zuck was trying to crack the Chinese problem” and shows his wife 😂😂😂

Why aren't they looking at Alibaba and many other companies where the CEOs were silenced when they began to speak out about the Chinese govt? TikTok isn't any different.

The worst thing about TikTok and Facebook is that it makes its users dim uninterested and unproductive people

Everyone: "Social media companies are spying on us and it sucks!" Also everyone: "Man I sure can't get enough of this CCP state sponsored malware that I voluntarily installed on all my devices lol"

I've never understood the TikTok situation until now, after watching this. This is the best information ℹ️ I've gotten regarding TikTok and it's ban in America

This guy is incredible on explaining respect to this guy

the way we all understand how corrupt TikTok is, but still use it is absolutely crazy..

so happy someone’s bringing attention to this

Great video man. This had me engaged and literally made this topic more interesting, easy to listen to and wanting to not miss a word that was said. Very well made and I'm subscribing as we speak.

Calling RU-vid and Facebook a free speech platform is a stretch, but yes I agree we should ban TikTok

Nice pronunciation and details. I'm glad you got into the "embedded party representative" issue. There's so little information about it available in English, even though it's a major method of control in the CCP.

This was a great video, great insight on the intermingling of tech and politics, bravo ... look forward to the new debut!

There is an important point, data of us citizen will be stored in amaerica by america company by americam, and ticktock source code is even open to be reviewed.

the whole video was packed with a lot of useful info as usual. didnt even know about those other guys, a pity the original creator is unknown.

Wait…is this the first time you read about corporate structure? The board provides the goal for the company, the ceo shapes the direction, and MD manages translates the vision to operational practicality.

I’ve never understood the appeal of the selfie or the lip syncing shit. More ways to be self-absorbed and narcissistic? Desperately needing the approval of not just your peers, but STRANGERS… and even if that acknowledgement is only a “like” after 2 seconds of their time scrolling past you? Somehow people feel empowered and validated by that? 🤦‍♂️ it’s digital poison.

American social medias have long enjoyed the free pass almost around the globe, it's time that every other country starts to question if that power should be allowed or taken so lightly. Obviously American can question CCP's integrity but these day's with American‘s paranoid politician, I don'k think a ban a TikTok can really help solve the insecurity issue.

You're right, blind adherence to principles is fatal, specially in international geopolitics.

I love how you put all of this. I think that TikToc is a big problem, but the RESTRICT act is not the right way to do it. You need to nudge instead of going from first to fifth gear.

Montana just became the first us state to ban Tiktok within its borders.

The recent actions taken by the American government have brought attention to a potential threat that could result in unintended consequences. The concern is that other countries may begin to question whether the US has too much influence over the opinions of their citizens, leading them to consider whether they should also restrict American social media access.

As if other social media platforms like Facebook don't give any information to the US government. At the end of the day, it is all about business.

"Put on a nice suit, frontman, doesn't actually have authority" Congrats Coogan, you discovered modern capitalism, brought to you by (you guessed it) good ol fucking USA. "Do as I say, not as I do" should be our new dollar bill motto.

crazy that people still not understand how serious this problem is

Great video, disagree on the alternatives to TikTok tho no other app comes even close to the quality of TikTok. Also disagree that there are no issues of active govt social media censorship in america as the recent twitter files have shown

John, I loved the video and found it very informative! While I share your reservations on TikTok and it’s relationship with US national security, I am having a hard time finding further information on the “puppet CEO” status of Shou Chew. If possible, can you provide more information on his role? When you suggest that he’s powerless at TikTok - does that mean he doesn’t have day to day operational control? Does that mean that he operates the company daily, but is powerless to enforce any sort of data security? Is there good information on how exactly these decisions are being made at TikTok internally, and how much influence Shou actually has?

Remind anyone of the story about the frog in slowly heating water; it doesn’t realise it’s heating up until it’s too late.

Ban all the social media sh*t, TikTok,FB,Instagram, Twitter. People will have more real relationships.

You know what that means for the rest of the world. Stop using American services.

Most Tik Tokers can't survive on youtube. You actually have to be entertaining, intelligent or bring some kind of value to youtube. These 4 second dances aren't going to cut it over here. TikTok is basically the easy mode version of youtube.

I know this is OT, but when you brought up Udacity, I felt I had to write this somewhere. In the beginning Udacity had it right. They had classroom communities directly connected to the class, with a link to the forums with markup available, right next to the video without any need to hunt it down. People could quickly get to the forum and get to know each other, and people would get the opportunity to shine if they contributed to the discussions. Free classes where people would get certificates, plus have a community with people who would help them, really gave people motivation. But when other platforms introduced paid certificates, Udacity wanted in on that, and much like when Hippocrates burned his own Temple down, Udacity realized what they built was too good. They Realized with timed classes and exam periods and a strong sense of community in classroom cohorts people had too much motivation, so they had to go about dismantling the system. They started by reversing their position that timed classes were prefered, as many studies show this improves productivity. Peter Norvig used to give speeches about this at Ted Talks, but for some reason they chose to cater to the few by making every class have no time constraints, when they could have just allowed people educated in one class cohort to join another later to take part in a later exam if there was a scheduling conflict. But this wasn't enough. They also realized students could still access the forums for a class and ask their friends questions, so Udacity made these cohort specific classes difficult to access. Ease and simplicity was replaced with difficulty and annoyance. Yet when they realized people would still watch the content for free and no matter how annoying it seemed, they would just use the forums anyway, they made it so you had to pay to access classroom specific forums, and with his move the mentors who could move and help with the class, disappeared. With general forums instead of cohort specific classes, everything was less focused and everyone had become disillusioned. You could no longer shine, being the first to post or reply to a topic. People who were once motivated to help were gone, and people who wanted to learn would stay for a bit before realizing they couldn't get help unless they paid for a credential without much value - especially with no community to help each other find work - and then they would just stop coming. After seeing the writing on the wall, I personally decided to attend a traditional University; although I studied the Design/the Fine arts on scholarship at OCADU. I was already skilled in various areas of development, and Udacity gave me python and some insight into areas I hadn't been allowed to access before; yet, without the community it now feels like a wasteland at times. Nobody wants to learn alone, especially when they are stuck and the tutors made available for a price aren't nearly as caring as someone who just wanted to help and possibly shine by helping. It sucks not having friends to compete with, friends who would show you their version of a piece of code or how they solved a math problem, so you can write much better code. I was often one of the better members in my classes, as I enjoy learning and problem solving, but there were still mentors/students who had skills above my own making themselves available, who that gave me great insights and that interaction, which is now lost, is what often gave me added reasons to improve.

so what if dancing data go to china govt ? it is the same with other apps data that are tracked by US govt..

I FUCKING KNEW IT! I FUCKING KNEW THAT TIKTOK IS SPYWARE!

John please make more content faster! I hate waiting 2-3 weeks before another upload, bud! 😂

Love your content John - I’d be interested to hear your thoughts on technology advancements such as Neuralink, Synchron and others.

It’s all the same, Who control Facebook? You need to make a video about that too.

The question is also would it cause a consequence to Americans & have collateral damage? I say if there is secrecy & lies involving ownership I say to be wary & start probing

I never once used Tiktok. I never liked social media and i knew tiktok was just chinese spyware.

Every singaporean in positions of power is under the thumb of the pap(current authoritarian gov of singapore) and the pap is beholden to the ccp since the time of deng

@5.01 musically wasn't the first app focused on lipsyncing. Dubsmash for one was actually quite popular and clearly an inspiration.

We look to the Chinese tech companies to pivot to the global south. We are tired of US tech. Africa has resources gvts in Africa should pivot to China we could achieve affordable tech and win win solutions. The pace of displacing us tech is taking too much time.

Pushing the algorithm ❤

If I were Americans, I would rather give away my social media app data to China. I have nothing to do with China but the US government can do a lot of things with my social media data.

Every government collects user information, including the USA this is Gov't / corporate sponsored RU-vid channel 😂

Deleting TikTok now.

We banned tiktok in India for following reasons (*imp. for western audience to understand): 1.Data theft by the company, of Indian users. 2.Border clash and agression by PLA at the Tibetian borders. 3.(Most important) To save our youth from being useless and degradation.(But unfortunately Instagram reels have started doing the same thing) You can argue with me in the replies to these, but west needs to really understand the consequences these type of apps bring on the table and these are mind you social consequences which are difficult to mend. I hope more countries ban Tiktok and similar type of apps.

Only in America does this nonsense happen. Here in India our Government just outright banned it without any of this fanfare😂

Why can't we implement GDPR-like protections to keep US data inside the US. Seems like a simple solution rather than intervening in the free market

NO TIKTOK NO TIKTOK

How do you know for sure that Shou Chew is not actually in charge of Tik Tok?

I’ve never use TikTok I don’t use TikTok

that anti tiktok plead is just hillarious 18:40

why didn;t you mentioned the tikok"s "texas project"?

That seems like an AI face

We must ban TikTok, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, and Google.

At the End of the Day, YT started the whole Monetising/ Ad Revenue industrial change lol

Why is westerners so infatuated who runs TikTok and Huawei?

Been waiting for your next upload. Sabbath Blessings i guess

literally the public-private partnerships that lead to tighter state control and state-backed monopolies.

The really high-pitched frequencies you have in this video make it barely watchable

Very many companies in these times work like this. Think about it, you start a company, you know how to do the work but not administration, you hire a CEO, Manager, and etc. They will administer as you do the work. At the end of the year, you take your seat as the boss and look at how yiur company has performed

Dang this rabbit hole goes DEEP!

Nice explanation, John. Thank you.

US is like the crybaby that cries until it gets what it wants otherwise everything is to cry for.

I fear RU-vid, Facebook and Instagram more than TikTok. I saw more diverse content from both side more than other social media.

The background music is to laud!!!

I miss my HUAWEI the united states of america government made illegal and unlawful to use. Tim Cook APPLE CEO OLIGARCH paid for this law using corrupt career politicians to do it

ALL Chinese companies are required by law to answer to and do whatever the CCP tells them to do, so ALL Chinese companies are controlled by CCP - by law.

Has anyone noticed that John Coogan looks like an older Tom Holland?

MoyMoy Palaboy. and Numa Numa were the earliest viral videos, Tik Tok could have been pioneered by Kesha and kept Vine alive

02:34 oh it's Jian Yang...lol

Love your videos so much ❤

你对TikTok的历史了解像个笑话😂

Sounds a looooooot like *insert US President here*

This man believes his lies. The new RU-vid propaganda

Can you possibly post the name of the intro song? Thank you

Is CCP in charge? No *nodding yes *

Always happy to see John drop a video.

That country has always worried me. They are scary to me. I’m happy so many Chinese have left and come here.

i really love the your tone of delivery.

"Guys it's okay those companies are run by the American government unlike TikTok" see that's the problem some of us don't trust our OWN government... that's why it's good to diversify into others 😅

17:47: they are banned in china because those companies you named repeatedly broke Chinese internet laws.....china didn't ban them for no reason....also those American social media companies you named are free and available in honk Kong and macau

Wonderful video and in depth analysis. Thank you

india banned tiktok despite the biggest userbase of tiktok in the world . Kudos to Modi Government.

so its okay when america use info from "sites" that goes against their user rights? i dont have tiktok btw

Nice! When are you going to make a video about Twitter, FB, and IG?

If we follow the logic presented in this video, in favour of banning Tik Tok in the US, the exact same logic can be followed anywhere else in the world to ban American social networks. I guess it's ok for the American government to collect personal data of people around the world, but when the Chinese government is following the same, previously well-proven, formula it's somehow different? And, please, stop using such vague constructs as "freedom of speech" when explaining anything.

as i suspected sinc byte dance is parent company. More deep information please. This is really more and more interesting.

He is just a figure head

There's some really annoying high frequency beeping in the video at around 10:00

Thank you for being so informative

Underrated channel. Wish you a million subs soon

So the CCP is afraid that tech companies are becoming too influential and may bring in freedom of thoughts, news and information from the west. Therefore we should stop Chinese tech companies from becoming too successful (aligned with the CCP)? How is this helping us again?

You asked the question in your introduction! This same question applies to America as much as you are trying to point the finger at China, I am giving one example! My first question is who owns the internet? Who controls the internet? My second question is who invents the modern technologies we are using in the world and who is in control and they are following every movement every second? And my second question is who is managing and controlling the financial system of the whole world? Now to answer your question, Alright, let me break it down for you. You made an assumption about a product, claiming it's a Chinese creation. But seriously, do you really think that one product can bring down the whole world? Come on, that's a stretch! So why do we need to go around spreading all this propaganda? Why all the hate and violence? I'm asking this to the whole nation, to everyone watching RU-vid. How do we even begin to justify it? Let's talk about the balance of power. How can we talk about balance when all the power is in the hands of one party? If you hand over all the power in the world to a single group, how do you expect things to stay balanced? I mean, throughout history, it's never been a good idea to give someone absolute power. They start torturing people, spreading all sorts of twisted propaganda, and forcing their own way of thinking on everyone else. And you know what happens next? The beautiful diversity and cultural richness that has naturally thrived for centuries goes down the drain. It's like flushing it all away. And then they start doing all kinds of messed up things that regular folks like us wouldn't even imagine.🙄🙄

Best explanation of the nature of tiktok for English readers/listeners. Thank you.

Thank you for informing everyone on this. Please reach out to Moist and XQC and other creators to inform them. They have reduced the ban to a trivial level. A crap ton of people watch them and believe in them. Which isnt bad, I love Moist too. I just feel like they are not seeing the bigger picture here.

Please take this to congress and have the make a decision, please

"If TikTok is banned, creators will quickly grow their audience on different platforms" This is absolutely not true. Currently the most used feature on TikTok is TikTok Live. Facebook, Instagram, RU-vid didn't really "copycat" TikTok like the twitter did with Clubhouse. If TikTok is banned, it'll be a betrayal - currently there'll be no replacement.

also usa can use the data of other country.

I love this video so much !!!!!