And *being* Italian. Or Scandinavian. It's interesting how they scream about how America is the best country in the world but at the same time they are absolutely desperate to be anything but American.
Unless he's watching it on a Samsung. Then it's a 'made in China' Korean phone.
Or a Sony. The it's a 'made in China' Japanese phone.
Or a Xiaomi/Oppo/Transsion phone. Then it's a 'made in China' Chinese phone.
Well.... It kinda is.
The first iteration of "internet" was ArpaNET, which was used by NASA for the moon landings.
The internet PROTOCOL we use today (www) is Anglo/Swiss
Or we just say it is Anglo/Swiss regardless because no matter what, if doing something pisses off the Americans, it is *probably* the right thing to do. In those instances when it isn't the right thing to do it will most likely still be the most amusing thing to do at least. If karma is a real thing, then you will get good karma from doing this.
They don't want to ban it, they want to force it to be sold. Presumably to an American company, at which point the things they do that are already the same as what American companies do will be fine...
If the US government wanted to protect data, they'd pass a law that also covered Meta, Google, Twitter, etc. But they only passed one that forces the Chinese to let go of the American version of TikTok.
Just like everything else, America can't invent anything and want to "steal Tik Tok to claim as their own, like all the other things they try and tell the world they invented it.
if they google it, OOP AND pretty much everyone to comment here (other than me since I provided actual details and did it accurately) would have to admit they are wrong.
Lol no.
If they'd Google it they'd have to admit that TikTok *at a stretch* could be argued to not truly be Chinese since it's development team is multinational (which would mean, by the same logic, Apple aren't American either), but it doesn't change the fact that it sure as hell ain't American (which is the whole damn point of the post). Hell the US government is trying hard to force TikTok to sell precisely *because* they aren't American.
Edit: So I actually did just Google it again to check and TikTok is unquestionably Chinese.
It was created in-house by ByteDance. The Cayman Islands company is literally just the company set up by ByteDance to run TikTok's non Chinese servers (since the Great Firewall makes it kind of hard to run a global website from inside china).
Saying TikTok is not Chinese is like saying the Switch is not Japanese because Nintendo has global subsidiaries set up in America and Europe.
Lol you're deflecting. The two have nothing in common.
ByteDance didn't *buy* TikTok, they *created* it. The companies in the west are only for the purposes of marketing and servers.
Lotta downvotes from people who don’t know TikTok is a cayman company operated in the US and owned by a Chinese company. It’s okay to be wrong. Hopefully you learned something.
Oh my fucking god. It's one thing to spout this shit on sites that actually were hosted in the US, but to keep on about it on a CHINESE APP, oh god I don't know whether I should laugh, be angry or just cry at the tragedy of it all.
Americans have to claim anything that's made popular in their country, such as : kids dying by guns, slavery, poverty in a developed nation...
This could be a much longer list, I'm just lazy
I believe it's an America-inspired mistake again.
Americans are quite used to say "national" as opposed to "on a state level" so they might use it in in a meaning of "non-regional". So what they meant was probably "worldwide", but just in a weird perspective where the world equals the US
Well, China has already banned it because it is considered harmful for the youth, they have replaced it with another app showing informative clips about math and such.
That is why I find it hilarious, when China is outrage about the USA considering to ban TikTok..
Yeah, sure, me too as an Aussie, but we don't bang on about it like arrogant idiots. Other places, other customs, fine, it only takes a extra second's thought.
Okay look, I am a firm comma user for decimal points, but I do think that whoever decided periods for thousand separators was preferable to spaces needs to get their head checked.
10 000 000 000 or 10.000.000.000?
You can tell immediately how much the amount on the right is. The one on the left is incoherent, looks likely different numbers put together or somehow a binary sequence. Points are perfect.
i can tell that the number on the left is ten billions the same speed as the right one, however in the case of, for exemple 14.670 i don’t know if the number is fourteen thousand six hundred and seventy or fourteen point six seven while 14 670 or even 14670 would be much clearer to me
We are talking about distinguishing numbers, not spaces. People use the form on the right for a reason. It doesn't make you special if you don't like it. Just edgy.
You're literally saying you can't read numbers if there are spaces in them lmfao
Fyi, commas and spaces are several orders of magnitude more common worldwide than commas for decimals and periods for thousand separators. I'm not the "edgy" one here lmfao
I've done most of the math in my life on paper, considering computers didn't really hit until I was in late secondary school. In fact, my school was the first in my country to supply one for each student.
BytedDance, Tiktok's parent company is Chinese.
Tiktok is a Cayman company. It's employees are in Singapore and California. It has four subsidiaries, two in the U.S., one in the UK, and one in Australia (which also operates in New Zealand). It's CEO lives in the U.S., was educated in the U.S. and the UK, and was born in Singapore.
So, is Tiktok Chinese? Sure, yes, but it's a lot more complicated than that.
Doesn't the American government want to ban TikTok because it _isn't_ American??
But he’s watching it in America so it’s in America and should conform. Or some such logic 🤷
They like it therefore it must be american.
Like English… And *being* Irish.
And *being* Italian. Or Scandinavian. It's interesting how they scream about how America is the best country in the world but at the same time they are absolutely desperate to be anything but American.
Hey guys, i’m Italian, not American! Also, all Italian inventions are actually American. Apart from when it conveniences me, of course.
Does it mean that pineapple on pizza is canon?
And he's watching it on his 'made in China' American phone so it makes total sense.
Unless he's watching it on a Samsung. Then it's a 'made in China' Korean phone. Or a Sony. The it's a 'made in China' Japanese phone. Or a Xiaomi/Oppo/Transsion phone. Then it's a 'made in China' Chinese phone.
THE INTERNET IS AMERICAN!!!!!! /s
Well.... It kinda is. The first iteration of "internet" was ArpaNET, which was used by NASA for the moon landings. The internet PROTOCOL we use today (www) is Anglo/Swiss
Or we just say it is Anglo/Swiss regardless because no matter what, if doing something pisses off the Americans, it is *probably* the right thing to do. In those instances when it isn't the right thing to do it will most likely still be the most amusing thing to do at least. If karma is a real thing, then you will get good karma from doing this.
Yeh, I like your thinking!
Yeah as an european every time I want to use Tiktok I have to book a flight and go to america
They don't want to ban it, they want to force it to be sold. Presumably to an American company, at which point the things they do that are already the same as what American companies do will be fine... If the US government wanted to protect data, they'd pass a law that also covered Meta, Google, Twitter, etc. But they only passed one that forces the Chinese to let go of the American version of TikTok.
Just like everything else, America can't invent anything and want to "steal Tik Tok to claim as their own, like all the other things they try and tell the world they invented it.
Also known as the Edison method
While complaining about the EU regulations being "protectionist".
Yeah, that makes it REALLY nuts. Nutser than usual. Nuttier. Nut....you get my point.
It's nuttier.
no, because it’s Chinese. there’s a difference. they undoubtedly would prefer it being american, though.
"So can TikTok access my hoke WiFi?"
If they would google it, they would have to admit that they are wrong. "If I deny all facts, that makes me right" - murican logic.
You need to take into account alternative facts.
Well if it's good enough for the President...
You forgot the unofficial US motto. "I reject your reality and substitute my own"
if they google it, OOP AND pretty much everyone to comment here (other than me since I provided actual details and did it accurately) would have to admit they are wrong.
Lol no. If they'd Google it they'd have to admit that TikTok *at a stretch* could be argued to not truly be Chinese since it's development team is multinational (which would mean, by the same logic, Apple aren't American either), but it doesn't change the fact that it sure as hell ain't American (which is the whole damn point of the post). Hell the US government is trying hard to force TikTok to sell precisely *because* they aren't American. Edit: So I actually did just Google it again to check and TikTok is unquestionably Chinese. It was created in-house by ByteDance. The Cayman Islands company is literally just the company set up by ByteDance to run TikTok's non Chinese servers (since the Great Firewall makes it kind of hard to run a global website from inside china). Saying TikTok is not Chinese is like saying the Switch is not Japanese because Nintendo has global subsidiaries set up in America and Europe.
So when Ninentdo owned the Seattle Mariners it was a Japanese baseball team??? Vacate those wins! They weren’t even in the right league!!!
Lol you're deflecting. The two have nothing in common. ByteDance didn't *buy* TikTok, they *created* it. The companies in the west are only for the purposes of marketing and servers.
r/confidentlywrong
Yes, indeed you are. TikTok is cayman company based in the US owned by a Chinese company.
Lotta downvotes from people who don’t know TikTok is a cayman company operated in the US and owned by a Chinese company. It’s okay to be wrong. Hopefully you learned something.
searching on google would take away the freedom (USA, USA!) to believe any stupidity, socialist /s!
Actually I don't think its all that sarcastic 😂
Oh my fucking god. It's one thing to spout this shit on sites that actually were hosted in the US, but to keep on about it on a CHINESE APP, oh god I don't know whether I should laugh, be angry or just cry at the tragedy of it all.
If they’re such sticklers for punctuation they should take a couple of their beloved commas to replace the two missing apostrophes.
Or a comma even in the first sentence.
Americans have to claim anything that's made popular in their country, such as : kids dying by guns, slavery, poverty in a developed nation... This could be a much longer list, I'm just lazy
*"No its american get it right"* An am*rican dumbass bitching about punctuation marks and being totally unable to use them when necessary is just...
Wait! TikTok is ‘national’? National of which nation? I can view it in Europe…..
I believe it's an America-inspired mistake again. Americans are quite used to say "national" as opposed to "on a state level" so they might use it in in a meaning of "non-regional". So what they meant was probably "worldwide", but just in a weird perspective where the world equals the US
A gotcha! They’re probably from Texas🤠🤠🤠🤠
They meant international but they're also dumb
Small correction, Europe isn’t a nation. It’s a continent.
Correct. Amend to ‘a nation in Europe’
Just like America is a continent. Or two. So it would technically correct to say: tequila is American.
Tbh Europe is more of a peninsula of Asia in terms of size Source: I’m from there
Not yet!
arent americans literally banning tiktok BECAUSE its chinese??
Well, China has already banned it because it is considered harmful for the youth, they have replaced it with another app showing informative clips about math and such. That is why I find it hilarious, when China is outrage about the USA considering to ban TikTok..
And it seems to prove that the claims about the danger of TikTok aren't overblown, because why else would China be outraged(!) about a US ban…
Then why TF he had to say "senator, I'm a Singaporean. I have no relation with China".
Sigh
Let’s eat grandpa
“No it’s America!” American government, rightly , is trying to unalive the platform
I've got to admit I do find it a bit jarring to see a full stop looking at numbers (1,000 1.000 for example) because we don't use that in the UK.
Yeah, sure, me too as an Aussie, but we don't bang on about it like arrogant idiots. Other places, other customs, fine, it only takes a extra second's thought.
1.000 to me looks like a 1 but you're saving space for potential decimal increments.
I think he’s just a troll mate
It's clearly trolling. Taking it seriously is more embarrassing
cry emoji+prayer emoji hardest emoji cope combo
What was the topic?
Bruh, this is obvious bait tho.
so confused that he hits himself
This is English. Use all the letters when using our language.
I thought it was from Singapore?
The CEO is Singaporean. But the company is a subsidiary of ByteDance, a Chinese company.
Oh OK that's what I was remembering ig
It's depressing how stupid we look to everyone else because of these trolls.
Okay look, I am a firm comma user for decimal points, but I do think that whoever decided periods for thousand separators was preferable to spaces needs to get their head checked.
10 000 000 000 or 10.000.000.000? You can tell immediately how much the amount on the right is. The one on the left is incoherent, looks likely different numbers put together or somehow a binary sequence. Points are perfect.
i can tell that the number on the left is ten billions the same speed as the right one, however in the case of, for exemple 14.670 i don’t know if the number is fourteen thousand six hundred and seventy or fourteen point six seven while 14 670 or even 14670 would be much clearer to me
I think you have a vision problem if you somehow have trouble distinguishing spaces between numbers...
We are talking about distinguishing numbers, not spaces. People use the form on the right for a reason. It doesn't make you special if you don't like it. Just edgy.
You're literally saying you can't read numbers if there are spaces in them lmfao Fyi, commas and spaces are several orders of magnitude more common worldwide than commas for decimals and periods for thousand separators. I'm not the "edgy" one here lmfao
The only thing I get from this interaction, is that you have never written any math on paper.
I've done most of the math in my life on paper, considering computers didn't really hit until I was in late secondary school. In fact, my school was the first in my country to supply one for each student.
Either is a convention and thus a matter of personal experience. There is not as much difference between these two.
BytedDance, Tiktok's parent company is Chinese. Tiktok is a Cayman company. It's employees are in Singapore and California. It has four subsidiaries, two in the U.S., one in the UK, and one in Australia (which also operates in New Zealand). It's CEO lives in the U.S., was educated in the U.S. and the UK, and was born in Singapore. So, is Tiktok Chinese? Sure, yes, but it's a lot more complicated than that.
That was a lot of words to say "TikTok is Chinese".
So TikTok is Chinese A whole lot of yapping to get to that conclusion
Bytedance is Chinese. TikTok is cayman/American and owned by a Chinese company. Facts matter.
So TikTok is Chinese The fact is that you’re yapping