{"id":117557,"date":"2020-08-03T23:33:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T20:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ngradio.gr\/?p=117557"},"modified":"2020-08-03T23:33:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T20:33:47","slug":"tiktok-and-the-splintering-of-the-global-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngradio.gr\/en\/news-el\/music-en\/tiktok-and-the-splintering-of-the-global-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok and the splintering of the global internet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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An app known mostly for teenagers posting videos of dance routines and comedy skits might seem an unusual subject of national security concerns. In the unfolding history of the online world, however, the forced sale to an American company of the US arm of TikTok, the first Chinese social media venture to become a global phenomenon, is a milestone. Coming after several western countries rejected Huawei\u2019s 5G technology, it highlights that the bifurcation of the internet \u2014 indeed, its splintering into multiple regional internets \u2014 is not just inevitable, but already a reality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sale reflects the particular concerns in the US and other western democracies over Beijing\u2019s authoritarian regime potentially having access to data held by Chinese companies. China\u2019s national security laws, after all, require all its companies to comply with demands from its security apparatus. TikTok\u2019s owner ByteDance insists it would never hand over users\u2019 information, and US data is stored in the US. Such assurances have not allayed the concerns of the Trump administration. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States ordered ByteDance to sell the US arm. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of TikTok\u2019s young western users shrug that they treat it as a given that apps will access and utilise their personal data. But the US and its allies have reason to worry over the uses to which China\u2019s surveillance state might put the information. Mike Pompeo, US secretary of state, has pointed to the potential for the Chinese security apparatus to use its facial recognition expertise to build sophisticated databases of users\u2019 personal characteristics, addresses, phone numbers, friends and connections. TikTok, which TechCrunch has called the \u201cInstagram for the mobile video age\u201d, has also developed into a platform for young political and social activists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

China\u2019s foreign ministry said the US decision \u201cexposes the US\u2019s typical double standards\u201d. Regrettable as America\u2019s action will be to those who have nurtured the idea of cyber space as a border-free zone, however, it is only a mirror of what has long been the case in China. Beijing either barred or imposed conditions rejected as unacceptable by Facebook, Google, Twitter and others long ago, and has stringent data localisation laws. The Trump administration\u2019s comments echo China\u2019s own notion of digital sovereignty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is, moreover, not just a purely US-China phenomenon. India recently banned 59 of China\u2019s biggest mobile phone apps, including TikTok and WeChat, on the grounds that they pose a threat to the country\u2019s security. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sale of TikTok in America to US owners is far preferable to the ban Donald Trump mooted on Friday \u2014 though the motives for the president\u2019s intervention are murky. A sale to Microsoft, if it goes ahead, would be commercially just, allowing ByteDance to realise value. It would also preserve the business for its millions of devotees and as a competitor to the likes of Facebook. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While it may be inevitable, the carve-up of the internet \u2014 and hence the global tech industry \u2014 into a series of walled gardens is still regrettable. It is likely to slow innovation by leading to unnecessary duplication and competing standards. Ideally, even if countries adopt their own rules on privacy, data storage, and who can operate within their online borders, it would be preferable for these to develop in a global framework \u2014 a kind of World Trade Organization of cyber space. With the WTO already having a hard time, however, such a notion is unlikely ever to get off the ground without a change of leadership in some of the world\u2019s largest economies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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