While India banned Chinese-owned TikTok, Anonymous hacked it <br /> <br />If you’ve been on any form of social media in the last six months or so, you’ve seen a TikTok video––they’re obvious because of the huge, annoying TikTok watermark. <br /> <br />And as common as TikTok videos are on, say, Instagram, the TikTok platform itself is a million times more productive. <br /> <br />But what the millions of users don’t realize about the platform is that it is probably a spying apparatus for the Chinese government on a scale hitherto unknown. <br /> <br />We now know about it because of the loosely organized collective of hackers called Anonymous. <br /> <br />India seemed to get it, goaded along by their own beef with China, and banned the app. <br /> <br />China has been busy lately. YouTube has been automatically deleting comments that are critical of communist China for months. <br /> <br />The company confirmed as much and said they were working to fix the issue. This is mere the latest bad PR for China. <br /> <br />Angela Merkel is facing mounting pressure from