China is threat to future of the internet and could force 'moment of reckoning', UK spy chief says | dispatchist.com

Concerns have also been raised in recent years about TikTok’s connections with China’s Communist regime, as parent company ByteDance has its headquarters in Beijing. In the past China erased social media accounts of independent news providers for 'spreading politically harmful information, maliciously falsifying (Communist) party history, slandering heroes and defaming the nation's image'.Republican senator Josh Hawley has previously called it a company compromised by the Chinese Communist Party that 'knows where your children are, knows what they look like, what their voices sound like, what they're watching'.In recent years, China has erased the social media accounts of independent news providers…