 well look at this don't worry buddy the leaders of tiktok are telling you that they will protect you from the oversights of the Chinese leadership if you guys are familiar within the Communist Party of China or the People's Republic of China the Chinese government owns every single private corporation so let's kind of reverse there's no such thing as a private corporation the government are the corporation so the big fish like Tencent and Alibaba well the government own shares and has seats on the board they dictate what can you do and what you can't do and so if you're not familiar with tiktok tiktok is the fastest growing social media app in the last I don't know five years six years it's like a combination between Snapchat and Instagram for 80d of 80d of 80d of 80d it is pretty fucked up I played around for a bit it has some weird demographics but the speed of which is growing is exponential it has a billion plus users right now and one of the ways it exponentially grew it took over musically which was one of the failed music slash apps I think I had about a hundred and fifty million users now reason why I bring this up is I want to be talking about social media in general and privacy because where we are today is we are in surveillance capitalism where we have monopolies of these big Silicon Valley companies in this case Chinese and this is the first one the first ever Chinese social media app to be have mainstream to collect people's data we are in a in environment where privacy free market capitalism does not exist anymore period and it's quite dangerous because when you see these social media platforms and I'm not against social media I think social media is it's beneficial if you know how if you know how to use it as a proper tool like anything in life context matters education matters and depending on how you properly use anything will determine the outcome and in this case we see studies coming up from Jonathan height that early usage of social media for boys and girls is horrible you know we look now in hindsight of course it is same thing when you know we look at hindsight for smoking technology is not good for a young maturing mind and so basically what we have today with adults using social media as we are giving up our privacy we're giving up our data we're giving up our user behavior and some might ask why is this important well it's very important you know no matter what the more data a government agency in this case as I say don't worry China's not involved bullshit excuse me can we bullshit no matter what when a government agency and when I look at Facebook and I look at YouTube they're with the government come on give me a break they want privacy man Google Facebook are the king of sucking your data that's how they make money they're pretty much a glorified ad network right Facebook has your natural instinctive behaviors Google has intense search people searching for certain keywords and this is they saw that the advertisers right they sell everything of your data absolutely everything this is why I recommend taking like basic precautions for data in this case even myself here at least on this computer I have opera I have their built-in VPN I have another VPN I use as well simple stuff like that you can use ad blocking in here as well like the small precautions you can take I should do a video in the future about a little bit deep dive on seven simple things people can do for more privacy that doesn't really cost you anything but anyways going back to tip-talk so this is a good well this is a good stepping stone for some like basic education like listen social media has helped a lot of people stay in touch with family like I got family overseas that I stay in touch for social media but exact same time we need to better understand the reality is that you should you should be really cognizant of the fact of what you post every post specifically if you're in a country like China and we see what's happening China today you know with Hong Kong or mainland China with the Uighurs up north or we see what's happening even like you know for example with the whistleblowers was happening with Facebook and YouTube they're kind of blocking that I think it's cognizant of the of everybody to be aware of the fact of you can't just you should be very careful what you post very careful this data could be used against you in the future and so I'm a firm believer in privacy privacy privacy this is why I'm a big proponent of blockchain this is why I'm a big proponent of web3 technologies I believe the next wave of technologies will be technologies that promote freedom of speech technologies that promote being a sovereign to individuals technologies to promote underlying by default privacy so want to quickly make this video about TikTok I don't buy this bullshit whatsoever anything from China is government-owned so use this at your own discretion and if you guys have any comments about this leave a comment below this video and I'll talk to you guys soon peace