Beijing rejects TikTok deal!

[Ghost Hobbit]

a bit poorer? that is a rather nice way to say it, the Chinese economy is 5 times the size of that of India even though they both have around the same number of people.

Good. Now in the year 2000 Chinese economy was the same size as India's. So when you were bosy declaring it superpower in the making then, reflect that's the same position we're in.

 

[Ghost Hobbit]

Don't quote me in useless posts. I am not interested in trolling.

your name came up accidentally. I was actually trying to reply with things TikTok did to show how they're different from google. Will post when I get the material.

 

[Ajay Ghatak]

Who cares about the Indian and American markets? You are deprived of the sheer joy of TikTok. Knowing how much Indians love to dance I know nobody feels more pain than Indians.

We have youtube and youtube shorts. Too bad TikTok cann't have another India and US to replace lost growth and all the money spent in marketing which will now help sell its competitor's products.

 

[CAPRICORN-88]

I dunno about your comprehension difficulties but each time someone says something critical about China, they are always branded "racist" or "bigot" by Chinese. Must be a weird Chinese trait.

Do you have a mirror in your residence?
Do you really understand what you are saying? You must be really suffering from the humiliation of the past otherwse where did all your hatred arises from?

 

[Ajay Ghatak]

That is because there many ignorant nationalistic Inkdians like you who act stupid and do not understand thst many Inkdians needed Tik Tok to supplement or support their families.

Youtube allows even better income. But that said TikTok made video blogging popular in India, at its own cost. So Thank you TikTok for making Vloging popular in India; now get lost TikTok!

 

[Ajay Ghatak]

I just read that India may not be buying more Rafales. Their pilots just flew them and found that its features are grossly exaggerated and overly rated. But very expensive to maintain.

Irrelevant to topic.

@waz @The Eagle @krash This chap has been making unrelated posts (often insulting) on this thread for quite sometime. Why has moderation team yet not banned him from the thread? Do you want to encourage a flamewar? There has been repeated reporting of his posts, many led to deletion and editing, why is this person still allowed to derail the thread?

 

[Nan Yang]

VPN interest surges in the U.S. as TikTok and WeChat users panic about access to Chinese apps
PUBLISHED MON, SEP 21 20209:57 AM EDTUPDATED MON, SEP 21 202010:58 AM EDT

Sam Shead@SAM_L_SHEAD

KEY POINTS

• Appetite for VPNs surged in the U.S. over the weekend as citizens realized President Donald Trump could soon block their access to TikTok and WeChat.
• NordVPN, ExpressVPN and Surfshark said they’ve all seen an uplift in activity.
• Last Friday, the Trump administration said TikTok would be banned from U.S. app stores from Sunday. However, on Sunday, Trump gave his “blessing” to ByteDance’s deal with Oracle that will enable TikTok to keep operating in the U.S.

A man holding a phone walks past a sign of Chinese company ByteDance’s app TikTok, known locally as Douyin, at the International Artificial Products Expo in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China October 18, 2019.

LONDON — Interest in virtual private network (VPN) software surged in the U.S. over the weekend as citizens realized President Donald Trump could soon block their access to Chinese-made apps like TikTok and WeChat over national security concerns.

VPNs allow users to conceal their location online and pretend to be somewhere they’re not. Chinese citizens use the software to access apps like Facebook and Google, which are blocked by the Chinese Communist Party. U.S. citizens could theoretically use a VPN to try to bypass a government block on TikTok or WeChat.

Daniel Markuson, digital privacy expert at NordVPN, told CNBC that NordVPN has seen more interest than normal from U.S. citizens since the announcement of the ban on TikTok and WeChat on Aug. 6.

“Expecting a (TikTok) ban to go into effect on Sunday, people rushed looking for VPN more actively: this weekend alone inquiries from the U.S. surged by 34%,” Markuson said in an email. NordVPN declined to give exact figures but said it has 14 million users globally.

Rival firm ExpressVPN has also seen an uptick in interest. Harold Li, vice president of ExpressVPN, told CNBC: “We saw a 20% increase in traffic to our website from the U.S. following Trump’s initial announcement of a potential TikTok and WeChat ban in early August.”

Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Surfshark, another VPN provider, said the company saw a notable uptick in free trials. “Comparing last weekend (12-13 Sept.) to this weekend (19-20 Sept.), we reported a 38% surge in free trials. Since TikTok aims to reach Generation Z, the ‘mobile-first’ generation, I presume it might be connected,” they said.

Edith Yeung, a general partner at venture firm Race Capital, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe” that portfolio company Incognito VPN saw a “huge spike” over the weekend.

“Some users in the U.S. are worried if I can’t access TikTok or WeChat maybe now I have to use VPN in the U.S. to access other apps in China which is really, really ironic,” Yeung said.

“What’s funny is my mum uses WeChat to communicate with me,” she said. “So we started to talk about VPN apps.”

Last Friday, the Trump administration said TikTok would be banned from U.S. app stores from Sunday. However, on Sunday, Trump gave his “blessing” to ByteDance’s deal with Oracle that will allow TikTok to keep operating in the U.S.

Under the deal, ByteDance will retain 80% of a new TikTok global business, which will be headquartered in the U.S. Oracle and Walmart will have a 20% stake.

Over the weekend, a California judge temporarily blocked a U.S. Department of Commerce ban on WeChat just hours before it was due to come into action.

The U.S. Department of Commerce wants WeChat to be blocked due to national security concerns but Judge Laurel Beeler said in an order that WeChat users who filed a lawsuit “have shown serious questions going to the merits of the First Amendment claim, the balance of hardships tips in the plaintiffs favor.”

 

[Beefeatergin]

Irrelevant to topic.

@waz @The Eagle @krash This chap has been making unrelated posts (often insulting) on this thread for quite sometime. Why has moderation team yet not banned him from the thread? Do you want to encourage a flamewar? There has been repeated reporting of his posts, many led to deletion and editing, why is this person still allowed to derail the thread?

Typical Indians crying again just like your pussy army

 

[Beefeatergin]

Good. Now in the year 2000 Chinese economy was the same size as India's. So when you were bosy declaring it superpower in the making then, reflect that's the same position we're in.

Year 2000 China didn’t rely on scam call centres and foreign aid for economic growth

India top recipient of US economic aid - Times of India

US News: India has been identified as the largest recipient of U.S economic assistance over a 66-year period in inflation-adjusted dollars although Washington'

m.timesofindia.com

Scams cheat older Americans out of almost $3 billion a year. Here's what to watch for

Seniors lose an estimated $2.9 billion annually due to financial exploitation, according to the Senate Special Committee on Aging.

www.google.ca

 

[Ghost Hobbit]

Year 2000 China didn’t rely on scam call centres and foreign aid for economic growth

India top recipient of US economic aid - Times of India

US News: India has been identified as the largest recipient of U.S economic assistance over a 66-year period in inflation-adjusted dollars although Washington'

m.timesofindia.com

Scams cheat older Americans out of almost $3 billion a year. Here's what to watch for

Seniors lose an estimated $2.9 billion annually due to financial exploitation, according to the Senate Special Committee on Aging.

www.google.ca

Corrrect. they dependended on stealing intellectual property and cheap knockoffs of American products.

 

[WarKa DaNG]

That's not the data you're talking about. The data is that every 10 mins TikTok checks your location and sends it to chinese servers, checks what you do with other apps, what you write in messenger etc. With a complete profile of you they can charge high premium on their advertising...or hlp the chinese govt spy on you...

When was the last time we were even safe

 

[52051]

Corrrect. they dependended on stealing intellectual property and cheap knockoffs of American products.

See, your logic at fault again, typical mistakes by people with low iq and small brain power.

Even if Indian's GDP is about China's GDP in 2000, doesn't imply you are 20 years away from China now:

For a low iq indian, I explain this to you:

See,if you are 20 and albert einstein published his general theory of relativity in his 40s, so does that imply you will publish a Noble-prize winning theory about 20 years later from now?

Now I bet even you could understand your retardness: It takes China, with a billion Chinese, 20 years from 2000 to develop into today's China, not a China with a billion indians, which has a per-captia barely comparable to the average of south African states, and China wont wait there for you.

For instance, by the end of 2020, China's GDP is likely 6x instead of 5x of yours.

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

See, your logic at fault again, typical mistakes by people with low iq and small brain power.

Even if Indian's GDP is about China's GDP in 2000, doesn't imply you are 20 years away from China now:

For a low iq indian, I explain this to you:

See,if you are 20 and albert einstein published his general theory of relativity in his 40s, so does that imply you will publish a Noble-prize winning theory about 20 years later from now?

Now I bet even you could understand your retardness: It takes China, with a billion Chinese, 20 years from 2000 to develop into today's China, not a China with a billion indians, which has a per-captia barely comparable to the average of south African states, and China wont wait there for you.

For instance, by the end of 2020, China's GDP is likely 6x instead of 5x of yours.

he's wrong too. In 2000 India was 1/3 the size of China and smaller than Spain and South Korea.

List of countries by past and projected GDP (nominal) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org