![]() A wide range of laws makes this possible, including the Law of Guarding State Secrets: If you’re suspected of harboring sensitive state information, you must grant access. “The Chinese government has the power to access the data of private-sector companies whenever it wants. Professor Scott Galloway’s recent piece, TikTok: Trojan Stallion, illustrated this deftly: government to take immediate action and ban TikTok and its Chinese-owned parent ByteDance. The stakes have never been higher. Today, we call for every American to remove TikTok from their devices immediately. The petaflops of data sent from American TikTok users start with content preferences and location information that can quickly lead to the determination of home ownership, work, and vacation schedules and a host of much more granular data on every aspect of our American lives. You can read Triller CEO Mahi de Silva’s letter in full below:Īs the CEO of a global company whose mission is to help creators take control of their destiny in the creator economy, leveraging transformative adaptive technology, I stand with a growing chorus of elected officials, regulators, intelligence officials, other global executives, and consumers who recognize the enormity of the devastating impact of TikTok on our society. The danger signs abound from the leaders of our intelligence community to the most versatile and connected technology journalists. Every American parent needs to ask what this social video app knows about their children and how those signals are used to get a deeper understanding of the location, preferences, and habits of their parents and the entire family. Other details were thin on the ground (hence the “confidential” submission), but Triller added: “The public listing is expected to take place after the SEC completes its review process, subject to market and other conditions.” On June 30, Triller announced, in a very short statement, that it had “confidentially submitted” a draft S-1 filing with the SEC in the states “relating to the proposed public listing of Class A common stock”. Triller’s letter calling for Americans to delete TikTok follows last month’s news that the company has filed to go public in the US on the NASDAQ. ![]() (In May 2021, Triller and UMG jointly announced that they had extended their worldwide licensing agreements spanning both recorded music and publishing.) Triller then claimed that it did “not need a deal with UMG to continue operating as it has been since relevant artists are already shareholders or partners on Triller, and thus can authorize their usage directly”. ![]() That statement came after UMG announced it was pulling its music off Triller in protest at the video platform not clearing the rights to its catalog. Just last year, Triller published a statement which, read: “Triller has no use for a licensing deal with Universal Music Group.” This isn’t the first public fallout that Triller has been involved in of course. “Every American parent needs to ask what this social video app knows about their children and how those signals are used to get a deeper understanding of the location, preferences, and habits of their parents and the entire family.” (With that level of accusation flying, it would perhaps be remiss for MBW not to note here that Khaby Lame recently became the most-followed account globally on TikTok.) Through our lens, which watches over 175 billion social media content items per quarter, covering over 2 million creators and 25,000 brands, we have witnessed that TikTok suppresses the content and contributions from Black creators, making that content invisible to its audiences.” “As Triller has expanded to build the platform for creators and to lay the foundation for its first-of-its-kind Creator Platform, we have developed a far more profound understanding of the creator economy. He adds: “The stakes have never been higher.”Īmongst many eyebrow-raising claims from Triller within the letter, perhaps none will raise eyebrows higher than this one: Every American parent needs to ask what this social video app knows about their children and how those signals are used to get a deeper understanding of the location, preferences, and habits of their parents and the entire family.”Īdditionally, de Silva says that he is “calling on the US government to take immediate action and ban TikTok and its Chinese-owned parent ByteDance“. He adds: “The danger signs abound from the leaders of our intelligence community to the most versatile and connected technology journalists. Within the letter published this week, Triller’s de Silva writes that, “as the CEO of a global company whose mission is to help creators take control of their destiny in the creator economy, leveraging transformative adaptive technology, I stand with a growing chorus of elected officials, regulators, intelligence officials, other global executives, and consumers who recognize the enormity of the devastating impact of TikTok on our society”.
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