{"id":1972,"date":"2019-12-24T12:46:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T12:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2019-12-24T12:46:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T12:46:53","slug":"whats-going-on-with-tiktok-china-and-the-us-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=1972","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s going on with TikTok, China, and the US government?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;TikTok, the short-form video app that\u2019s been downloaded 1.5 billion times, is one of the most exciting and goofiest places on the internet, and possibly the only truly fun social media network in 2019. It is also based in China \u2014 and that\u2019s the part that has some users, and now, politicians, concerned.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;US politicians\u2019 concern over TikTok began with an investigation&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2019\/sep\/25\/revealed-how-tiktok-censors-videos-that-do-not-please-beijing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Guardian<\/a>&nbsp;published on September 25, which revealed leaked documents that showed TikTok instructing its moderators to censor videos that mentioned topics sensitive to the Communist Party of China: Tiananmen Square, Tibetan independence, and the religious group Falun Gong, for instance. The Guardian\u2019s investigation came after the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2019\/09\/15\/tiktoks-beijing-roots-fuel-censorship-suspicion-it-builds-huge-us-audience\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Washington Post<\/a>&nbsp;noted that a search for Hong Kong-related topics on TikTok showed virtually zero content about the ongoing and widely publicized pro-democracy protests, which were a major topic on other social media sites at the time.&nbsp;&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/open-sourced\/2019\/12\/16\/21013048\/tiktok-china-national-security-investigation\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/open-sourced\/2019\/12\/16\/21013048\/tiktok-china-national-security-investigation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;TikTok, the short-form video app that\u2019s been downloaded 1.5 billion times, is one of the most exciting and goofiest places on the internet, and possibly the only truly fun social media network in 2019. It is also based in China \u2014 and that\u2019s the part that has some users, and now, politicians, concerned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;US politicians\u2019 concern over TikTok began with an investigation the Guardian published on September 25, which revealed leaked documents that showed TikTok instructing its moderators to censor videos that mentioned topics sensitive to the Communist Party of China: Tiananmen Square, Tibetan independence, and the religious group Falun Gong, for instance. The Guardian\u2019s investigation came after the Washington Post noted that a search for Hong Kong-related topics on TikTok showed virtually zero content about the ongoing and widely publicized pro-democracy protests, which were a major topic on other social media sites at the time. &#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[91,89,90,92,88],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-censorship","tag-china","tag-communist-party","tag-leaks","tag-tiktok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1973,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions\/1973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}