Flutter is popular among young people because it satisfies the obsession with popular short video and comedy imitations.
Yet as the relationship between China and the United States tightens, as a closely relationship company with China, shaking tone has become the latest target. The United States and Australia are considering banning shaking. India has removed it from the app store.
What is the sound?
Similar to tubing (video website), Tremble is a mobile app that offers free short video. Users can post up to a minute of video and filter and select the huge qu library. Users can also perform without sound with comedy clips and movie dialogue.
As soon as users receive more than 1000 followers, they can also live broadcast, to fans and accept digital gifts that can be converted into cash.
The application can not only display the video of the user's attention, but also display the video filtered by the program itself according to the content the user has watched before.
Private messaging can also be done between users.
How many users are there?
Since the beginning of 2019, the sound is often among the top in the download list.
virus pandemic's blockade is also thought to have stimulated user interest and generated an estimated 2 billion downloads worldwide, with about 800 million active users.
So far, it has the most downloads in India, but after the country blocked it, China is currently the largest market, followed by the United States.
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What are the Chinese connections?
Dithering begins with three different applications. First was the "Musical.ly" American app" launched in 2014. In 2016, the Chinese technology giant byte beat launched a similar service in China, that is, shaking sound.
byte beats are then extended globally with the TikTok name. Byte beat acquired Musical.ly, and joined its quiver business in 2018.
Byte Beat tried to distinguish its application from its ownership in China by appointing former Disney senior director Kevin Mayer (Kevin Mayer) as its chief executive.
How much data TikTok collect?
TikTok collected a large amount of data from users, including:
Some of the data collection has attracted public attention, including the latest exposure, which often reads the user's copy and paste clipboard.
However, this is true for many other applications, including Reddit、LinkedIn、《New York Times 》、The British Broadcasting Corporation news applications, and there seems to be no malice in it.
Most of the regular data collection is tantamount to other social networks (such as fb) that need a lot of data. But the Office of the British Information Commissioner (Information Commissioner's Office), the privacy regulator, is currently investigating it.
Can China use quiver to monitor people?
Pompeo (Mike Pompeo), Secretary of State of the United States, said users could eventually "hand over their data to the Communist Party ".
Dithering has always insisted on collecting and storing data outside China.
Theo Bertram (Theo Bertram), the head of public policy in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, told The British Broadcasting Corporation : " that it was a big mistake to think that we were government controlled by China. "
Like Huawei, however, the argument against shaking sounds seems to be based on the fact that Chinese government force byte jumps to hand over foreign user data based on local law.
China's National Security Law 2017 obliges any organization or citizen to "support, assist and cooperate with national intelligence work ".
Bertram said that if China government come to ask for data ," we will never agree to such a request ".
But the bytes beat carefully not to upset the party.
According to the South China Morning Post, in 2017, the company's news headline "news app was banned for 24 hours. Earlier, the Beijing Internet Information Office said the app was spreading "porn and vulgar content ".
Rejecting direct orders from the country's spy chief could also have an impact on the company and its leadership.
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Has the sound been used in the Communist Party propaganda machine?
Another issue is the review system.
China's Internet is one of the world's most restricted spaces, and its notorious "firewall" blocks some of its networks.
Last year, the Guardian reported that employees and automation systems had implemented censorship rules and reviewed politically sensitive materials. The prohibited or restricted materials allegedly included Tianan-men 89 square protest activity and the requirement to Tiibet independent images.
The Washington Post, which interviewed six former employees, reported that Chinese authorities censors had a say on whether the report video was finally released.
Byte beat said that the relevant criteria have been phased out.
But some believe that China's harmonious culture is still authorities good for the Communist Party of China.
