Geopolitics

Is TikTok pushing Taiwan’s young people closer to China? 

Yes. 

The portion of young Taiwanese who feel ‘Taiwanese’ versus ‘Chinese’ is collapsing

@kenny 

Free speech isn’t free speech when the platform is twisting the algorithm

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Is TikTok pushing Taiwan’s young people closer to China? 

Yes. 

The portion of young Taiwanese who feel ‘Taiwanese’ versus ‘Chinese’ is collapsing

@kenny 

Free speech isn’t free speech when the platform is twisting the algorithm 

https://on.ft.com/4gUcjZW 

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And I’m 24  so I know just how impressionable this cohort can be

Certainly is only a couple of data points but you can read the article for a broader review

Not expecting to change your mind with one article, but to show how this does happen. I first heard of young people being misinformed on tiktok that Taiwan was part of China about two years ago now 

As for making my own client, when I have billions to spend on user acquisition I will let you know :)

taking a highly complex and hard to measure thing like whether or not young people "feel" Taiwanese or Chinese and boiling it down to only being driven by one social media company's algorithm seems a bit too simplistic, no?

seems similar to when people blamed the entire first Trump presidency on social media pushing Russian disinfo and ignoring that actually there were just a lot of real people that liked his message 

social media is an easy scapegoat

if it's that easy to sway people with an algo just create your own social media with a pro Taiwan algo?

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Seems reasonable. Is slowly happening over time. 
But the risk is that this relies on a few decades of consistent philosophies: if Xi’s great power expectations are correct, then you don’t need to worry about this bc China will only get stronger
But if that is wishful thinking and the blights of dictatorship actually manifest for the long term, then it’s risky

Cutting cables in Taiwan would be a major escalation 

I recently wrote a cast (which I cannot find anymore for some reason) hypothesizing that China’s takeover of Taiwan will happen not with a bang, but with a whimper, using a grey combination FUD, propaganda, naval embargo, cutting of communications / undersea cables, etc instead of the frontal amphibious assault that everybody seems to expect