TikTok and The Chinese Communist Party

I haven't held forth on this particular story because I gave up trying to explain the issues around legislation and technology.

Nobody seemed to take anything I said on board. There are several issues here, which are:

  1. National Security
  2. Basic Human Rights, including Freedom of Expression and Privacy
  3. Communications and Computer Systems Monopolies and  Cartels
  4. Economics and Free Exchange of Ideas
It's interesting that they break down roughly into the four elements of Princess Basmah bint Saud's Fourth Way Law. I'll try talking this through on an audio recording and add it here.

Well, that was fun. I spent sixteen minutes talking to my phone. Stopped the recorder quit the app, and the audio I had recorded? Well, it vanished, of course. I mean, why bother asking the user if they really want to delete what they just recorded? So instead, watch this:

And for God's sake, try to take your responsibilities seriously, Mr Pichai. And ask your staff to write better software so I don't have to keep changing your name back to Pichai from Pichi. Countdown To Socialism.

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