@Angeblichstan @evenstevenmb @FrancaRose33 @Gonz67Ricky @JackRyanlives @MasonFlakeAlpha @CaliforniaActi2 @thepainterKeith @ALJWS @rational_matt @smx_pd It is absolutely insane. It's a big middle finger to the world. Running pump and dump scheme after pump and dump scheme.
@Elkinsianna And for so long the focus was more on keeping external threats out. Be it by the Great Firewall or hacking OPM. So ByteDance and TikTok provides the PLA with massive data. They should just sell and scrape like everyone else
@adhdwonderwoman ByteDance's server farm, in Texas, if they are to be believed is set up well to be firewalled sovereign data. Oracle built out the data centers. They didn't migrate data to Meta. Nobody would give a competitor all their deets like that
Perhaps what we see is a unity of fascism in promoting "harmonious world order" by controlling the informationized space and we need to remember this sameness is dangerous, and harmony requires a diversity of thought
But one has to ask is the CCP, though ByteDance any different than President Trump owning Truth Social (funded by Chinese Capital) Or Elon Musk and Saudi Arabia owning Twitter? or David Sacks, JD Vance, and Peter Thiel owning Rumble?
Psychological warfare, xinli zhan, seaks to induce defeatism Legal warfareinvolves constraining the enemuy by saying one side obeys the law, and the other breaks it Consensus or Public Opinion warfare, yulun zhan, means to shape an audience TikTok does it all
TikTok maybe a tool for San zhan, ot the idea of three warfares of political warfare: public opinion warfare, psychological warfare, and legal warfare ByteDance Ltd is a tool of the CCP, the Chines counterpart to TikTok is called Douyin, an app to promotoe playful patriotism
This means reacting and redressing an increasingly less balanced and less fair information space on social media Through tools like Tik-Tok In China the PLA, military was ordered to divest from all companies but technology Tik-Tok = PLA, that's the issue
The ultimate goal is taihe, or grand harmony, across five levels. The fourth level involves promoting harmony of States and the fifth level is a universal harmony A Harmonius society is a balance that requires China to recherish the core Chinese values
In Chinese Harmony’ originates from he 和 In Confuciansim, The junzi, proper gentlemen, harmonizes but does not seek sameness, whereas [an unscrupulous man seeks sameness but does not harmonize Harmony is negotiated and established between sameness and difference
Harmonious Society was once one scientific development concept, because Marxism, with Chinese Characteristics but it has shifted from one of Economic message alone and one of also promoting harmony through traditional value (sound familiar)
One way the CCP uses tools like TikTok is for dikang yizhi, or to shake the others side will to resist yet at same time China needs Capital to flow out of the country in liquidity and into the countryas investment a lot of capital, and they would spend money on "harmony"
Chinese word for deterence, weishe, also means, coercion, or better yet to deter behavior by coercing someone into other behavior In xinxihua zhanzheng, information warfare, harmonious conditions means shaping the information first, in a way the balances the goals of China
tianxia, an ideal civilization order was meant to balance world powers in harmony multiple-systems of empire, providing balance an to accomplish this balance China will use elements of ylun zhan, or Consensus Warfare for deterrence
key word is "harmony" Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao have pushed the idea of a harmonious society as a party pillar since CCP founding but idea of "harmonious society" goes back to Confucius, it's old AF Hu Jintao, once President, began pushing a harmonious world order in 2005 https://x.com/davetroy/status/1881056819357139202