Is TikTok Intentionally Trying To Make Americans STUPID?
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4.1 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 1:22.2 | They interviewed Tristan Harris, who is the co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology. What |
| 1:28.8 | they've come to realize is the difference in the Chinese version of TikTok and the American |
| 1:35.5 | version of TikTok. And TikTok is owned by a Chinese company, correct? That is correct. |
| 1:42.0 | It's owned by a Chinese company called Bite Dance. And Harris says the version that served |
| 1:47.6 | to Chinese consumers called Duyen is very different from the one available in the West. |
| 1:56.2 | In their version of TikTok, if you're under 14 years old, they show you science experiments |
| 2:01.8 | you can do at home, you see them exhibits, patriotism videos, and educational videos. And |
| 2:08.0 | they also limit it to only 40 minutes per day. Now they don't ship that version of TikTok |
| 2:13.6 | to the rest of the world. So it's almost like they recognize that technology's influencing |
| 2:18.8 | kids' development and they make their domestic version, a spinach version of TikTok while |
| 2:24.5 | they ship the opium version to the rest of the world. The version served to the West |
| 2:29.3 | has kids hooked for hours at a time. The impact Harris says is predictable. It is a survey |
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