• natural_motions@lemmynsfw.com
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    7 months ago

    You need to educate yourself about China and the CCP.

    You’re overreacting by quite a lot, people are fine with banning TikTok for the same reason they’re fine with banning spyware apps from Russia or any other bad actor state.

    We aren’t obligated to give anti-democratic foreign adversaries equal access to pollute our public squares. Especially when they themselves have already banned most forms of outside social media and are only interest in peddling their propaganda.

    It’s ridiculous that people are pretending like the CCP is some kind of victim here or that this is some slippery slope.

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      7 months ago

      You need to educate yourself about the US government and its corporate buddies.

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      7 months ago

      First, link some sources of how China/CCP is using TikTok in anyway different that Facebook to get data on its users, specifically the comparison to malware. I don’t think OP is overreacting and I do think this is a slippery slope (some entity outside US jurisdiction owns a successful app - this is clearly a message to all other companies and startups outside US jurisdiction that they will meet the same fate if their idea becomes too successful). And yes, I’m sure you will “but but CCP” here, and I will say show me proof TikTok is doing something nefarious (that’s any different than what current platforms are doing - all I’ve ever heard is fear mongering that China “could” do something something etc blah blah)