While India banned Chinese-owned TikTok, Anonymous hacked it
- 4 years ago
While India banned Chinese-owned TikTok, Anonymous hacked it
If you’ve been on any form of social media in the last six months or so, you’ve seen a TikTok video––they’re obvious because of the huge, annoying TikTok watermark.
And as common as TikTok videos are on, say, Instagram, the TikTok platform itself is a million times more productive.
But what the millions of users don’t realize about the platform is that it is probably a spying apparatus for the Chinese government on a scale hitherto unknown.
We now know about it because of the loosely organized collective of hackers called Anonymous.
India seemed to get it, goaded along by their own beef with China, and banned the app.
China has been busy lately. YouTube has been automatically deleting comments that are critical of communist China for months.
The company confirmed as much and said they were working to fix the issue. This is mere the latest bad PR for China.
Angela Merkel is facing mounting pressure from
If you’ve been on any form of social media in the last six months or so, you’ve seen a TikTok video––they’re obvious because of the huge, annoying TikTok watermark.
And as common as TikTok videos are on, say, Instagram, the TikTok platform itself is a million times more productive.
But what the millions of users don’t realize about the platform is that it is probably a spying apparatus for the Chinese government on a scale hitherto unknown.
We now know about it because of the loosely organized collective of hackers called Anonymous.
India seemed to get it, goaded along by their own beef with China, and banned the app.
China has been busy lately. YouTube has been automatically deleting comments that are critical of communist China for months.
The company confirmed as much and said they were working to fix the issue. This is mere the latest bad PR for China.
Angela Merkel is facing mounting pressure from