Why are countries trying to ban TikTok?

This rich world that we live in, keeps our attention. Glued to our phones is Big Business and no one Keeps Us staring at our phones more than Tick-Tock, but could this happen? Be a national security risk. Let's find out together as we delve into why countries are trying to ban ticktock. Tock tick tock is one of the most popular apps in whichever App Store. You desire to board a meeting flight. Delayed Tick-Tock is here to keep you entertained 15. To 60 seconds at a time.

Tick-Tock started in 2017 with an emphasis on short-form content and not format has taken the World by storm today. It's used by over 150 million Americans and therein lies the problem. Tick-Tock owes a lot of its success to 2020. Pandemic and has seen more than three billion downloads. In three short years, guys, three billion. That's almost half the population of the Earth.

So yeah, I think it's fair to say it's become pretty popular and ironically Tick-Tock owes a lot of that success to its competitors. Let's go back to the start for a second bite, and dance. The parent company of Tick Tock was started in China in 2012 by dance funds. It first hit up with headlines, a news app, that tailored the headlines to the user, which set this app apart. Any other news app was just how well the personalization algorithm worked users would open the app and then click on the articles that they were interested in the algorithm meticulously learned what the user's interests were and then fed them back articles that would interest them in real-time

by the dance CEO. Shochu saw the success of the headlines app and wondered if the algorithm would work as well on an app that made short videos. So in 2016, they launched Guyana, the Chinese version of tick-tock. It's pretty much the same just with a lot more Chinese language options. Just how wonderful the Chinese government is and how they are never wrong.

Most social media networks are based on your Social Circle who you follow, like, subscribe to, Etc. Tick-Tock is based all around you. Using the same formula as their headlines, only with videos the variables given to the algorithm to better. Understand who you are much more. Numerous give you a much more nuanced curation of content that sounds like a lot. So let me simplify if you like kittens and surfing. And baking brownies tick-tocks algorithm is going to find a cat in a wetsuit.

Hanging ten through the curl, followed by a delicious brownie recipe Tik. Toks, layout, and presentation are downright addictive. The feedback loop is careful. Curated to your interests, Addictive Behavior, and sensory overload. Feedback loops are similar in some ways to slot machines. But the difference is with a slot machine eventually you must stop because you lost the kid's college fund waiting on that. Waitress to come back with your complimentary Long Island.

Iced Tea. Hey, remember earlier when I mentioned that tick tock goes a lot of its success to its competitors? That is an understatement, to say the least dance had a genius marketing plan. Have you ever heard of the phrase? If you can't beat them, join them. Tick-Tock strategy could best be described as. Let's join them to beat them. Tick-Tock admired, Facebook and YouTube. They admired them so much that they paid a bunch of their top employees and influencers to come to join them on tick, tock. Then they spent billions of dollars running ads on Facebook and YouTube.

Driving traffic to tick-tock directly from its competitors. That is just Evil. Genius level, brilliant. Facebook and YouTube are underestimated. Tick-tocks ability to penetrate the market. And now look at them, copying Tick-Tock features and format, and they can't even be mad at it, because they were, basically, their biggest advertising customers and lastly, what added Tik to meteoric. Rise was their ability to generate Right.

Both content and new users by Dance knew that for Tick-Tock to be successful. They would both need quality content and several users. So, to get more content, they filled their app with editing features that would take. Most people spend years learning more complex software. They promoted challenges that everyone gave. A common inspiration to create on, you've probably had someone dozing themselves in ice water or falling off. Milk crates, crossing your screen at some point, or maybe a friend, family member, or coworker is dragging you over to their phone set up in selfie mode to attempt the next hottest Tick.

Tock dance, Trend Tick Tock also made it a lot easier to go viral YouTube, Facebook and Twitter have aggregation. That makes it harder to go viral on their platforms. Tick-Tock shows lots of love to the little guy, by seemingly making the little guy, the big guy overnight, and as mentioned earlier, they snagged a few top influencers from the other major platforms. And that my friends the recipe for Three

billion users on your app. The worldwide version of tick-tock has only been around for five years and they have more money than Netflix they were able to reach Market penetration, which took Facebook, five years in less than half that time and they have unseated. YouTube, as the go-to video app, the world over dance, scored its biggest Victory with Tick-Tock but it has by no means come without scrutiny and Scandal. You might remember a few years back when a certain aura Ins looking commander-in-chief once vowed to ban tech talk from the US,

That is not an unfounded concern. The UK, EU Canada, and New Zealand have banned top political officials from having the app on their devices. Several US state government officials. Following a similar protocol, India and neighboring Pakistan have banned Tick-Tock and dozens of other Chinese apps, such as chat from the country entirely. Because tick-tock poses a national security threat, China's views on personal privacy and corporate standards and practices are

different. Any company doing business in China must comply fully with the Chinese government and hand over any resources upon request as the government sees fit is kind of terrifying, right? Yeah. While it's even worse for tech companies, apps like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter are banned in China and the Chinese government uses apps like WeChat to monitor. Has ins posts and whereabouts? Allegedly.

Should those citizens do anything? The government does not like the government to use those apps to freeze assets. Stop them from traveling or their location. Data can be used to round them up for incarceration. Allegedly B, dance is very much a Chinese Corporation. If the Chinese government uses apps to spy on its citizens. What's there to stop them from spying on hours, Biden? Ministration has signed the legislation before to ban Tik-Tok from government devices

and are currently pushing Shochu and Tick-Tock to sell the app to an American company. But we are not exactly sure if the US government can ban the app altogether from use in America due to the rights, granted under the First Amendment, they are also considering legislation that would prevent Tick-Tock from selling ads in between videos or even updating the software version, which would effectively kill the app in the US. And

These negotiations are still ongoing. So we will be sure to keep you updated on this situation in future videos. Give us a like Andsubscribe if you haven't already. At the time of this recording, shochu will have testified before Congress during his testimony. He stated that Tick. Tock is committed to the safety of young people, a firewall for our data, and full transparency, and the app will remain a place of free expression. Without government manipulation, he has maintained that tick-tocks data is not Stored in China but in Singapore

and he's expressed plans to store data in the US. And Norway on, third-party servers. Only time will tell if tech talk ends up getting banned from the US for consumers to download. Today Tick-Tock has over 150 million users and is used by over 5 million American businesses on the surface. The app seems harmless, but Tick-Tock can access, the user's calendar, other running applications Wi-Fi networks, and Even the SIM card, serial number

The location data and user calendar could be a security risk for us officials, but the counter-argument to this claim is that apps like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram already collect user data for various purposes. The differences between these companies are founded and maintained on American soil. I guess lawmakers and congressional candidates feel that the devil you know is better than the devil. You don't. So what happens if the US Mint.

Does shutdown Tech talk personally, I think they'll be alright. They already have hundreds of millions of users in China and roughly the same number around the world. When India Bandit and 58, other Chinese apps Tick-Tock, instantly lost 200 million users. And B Dance did not bat an eye but the loss of revenue from those 5 million us. Businesses might have a sting to it. It's too early to tell what's going to happen with the future of tick-tock in the USA. So, in the meantime, Enjoy your favorite content creators