Monday, August 3, 2020

TikTok, Donald

Why is Donald Trump fuming about TikTok and threatening to ban it? Wired has a long piece on the threat of Chinese eavesdropping.

Here's a much simpler explanation; revenge.

TikTok users were instrumental in over-booking Trump's last campaign rally (and the only one he's likely be able to hold, absent some particularly reckless decisions on his part) before the election. So instead of a packed stadium we had images of rows and rows of empty seats.

He was made to look foolish; which in his world is the most egregious sin imaginable. So he's out for his pound of flesh. I think that's a far more Occam's razor-ish explanation than Wired's. 

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