there was no China Vs India. Just Tiktok vs Youtube - really Indian Youtube and Tiktok content creators dissing each other...
Google doesn't even have access to China so there's no financial motivation.
It wouldn't be a stretch to assume there's something going on behind the scenes that China could use to force Google's hand. I'm not saying that's what happened but that is a possible response I was thinking about when writing my original comment.
Google still doesn't have access to China and even if they tried it again, the employees would leak and stop it again.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/26/21270290/youtube-deleting...
lol. It's almost as if the entire reason that China is not a backward stagnant economy is because they allowed people to own things, on their own. But here we'll just close our eyes and pretend that didn't happen.
That 'all large Chinese companies are controlled to a greater or lesser degree by the state' - is a matter of fact highly suppressed and obfuscated by the state for purposes of aggressie control and statecraft.
Nobody cares that much that there's a degree of 'central planning' to grow the Chinese economy.
People care a lot that Huawei states they are 99% employee-owned, but in reality we don't really know who actually holds the power and that it seems more likely that the state has deep levers of control.
It would be more transparent to just accept that Zoom and TikTok can and will be used as tools of the CCP.
As far as Google and reviews ... it's going to be important that they remain very transparent and above board in such issues given all of the relevant factors.
> On Friday, BJP MP from Sultanpur and an animal activist, Maneka Gandhi, took to Twitter to slam the Head of TikTok for refusing to delete videos depicting animal cruelty and handing over details of such video creators to the concerned authorities.
> She also accused the Chinese app of increasing its users at the expense of violence against women, children, and animals, besides spreading fake news. “Are you working for India or China? This is not acceptable. I want a much better and firmer commitment immediately and I need to see it in action,” Maneka Gandhi concluded.
https://www.opindia.com/2020/05/tiktok-videos-animal-cruelty...
Edit: Adding a thread which gives just one example among the hundreds. https://twitter.com/free_thinker/status/1262108843464486914?...