<story><title>Mark Zuckerberg Stoked Washington’s Fears About TikTok</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-stoked-washingtons-fears-about-tiktok-11598223133</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>holografix</author><text>Reality is that while China blocks Facebook, Google, etc and smartly props up their own clones, it’s “aghast” at the American protectionism and xenophobic behaviour. 
How dare the Americans block a Chinese app?!
China is not a democracy. It’s not interested in fairness. China is playing the long game. 
Just like the wars of the past were fought with little toy armies of a few thousand knights and noblemen marching into each other’s countries until someone decided to conscript their whole nation into battle, the West is fighting allowing China to pilfer its technology, wreak the environment, and compete with state backed organisations. Wanna compete with Huawei? Good luck sending in your company noblemen, China is sending their whole nation behind it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Mark Zuckerberg Stoked Washington’s Fears About TikTok</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-stoked-washingtons-fears-about-tiktok-11598223133</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Firebrand</author><text>Sort of a Frankenstein’s monster situation Zuckerberg created for himself. He took Bytedance’s money so they could plaster TikTok ads all over Facebook and Instagram back in 2018.&lt;p&gt;TikTok pays its approved creators around $0.035 per 1,000 views. Maybe compete with that.</text></comment>