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Only US tech companies can harvest all that data from their products, I mean, customers.

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I mean let’s be honest, that’s slightly better than US companies plus the Chinese Communist Party being able to do so.

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I don’t know about you, but if I must leak my private data like a sieve to use the internet, I’d much rather that data go to a government that isn’t governing me!

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A government that isn’t governing you … yet and that has no ambitions (/s) to take over as much power as possible in the country you live in, you mean?

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Because your government can use the information against you while a government on the other side of the planet can’t.

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Because definitionally, fewer people doing a bad thing is better than more people doing a bad thing?

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18 points

Everybody Sucks Here

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It’s obviously more of a problem when a government that actually has agency over you harvests your data. If you can’t even understand this, then you’re truly lost.

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What can China do to you? You don’t live there.

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TikTok enacted a very obvious influence campaign to fight this legislation that resulted in congressional phone lines becoming jammed. So what China can do is directly influence our laws.

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Not having the choice is slightly worse I’d say.

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They still can, they just have to go back to buying that data lmao

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Problems with this app go beyond just privacy and bleed into national security.

You as a citizen of your country have an obligation to not freely offer yourself up as an attack vector for cybercriminals all so you could fry your brain with garbage media.

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Case in point: all the college protests. All the arrests happening are from people being encouraged on TikTok to become aggressive and angry towards apartheid. But the question is how the fuck is protesting at a college going to change what a government in another country is going to do in any way? The Israeli government gives little to no fuck about kids opinions protesting at a college campus in the United States. It’s likely civil unrest being spread by TikTok.

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As if all these other social medias don’t have garbage media or propaganda

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That’s not the point

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5 points

We must return to AOL and Friendster.

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25 points

I hate America though

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Problems with this app go beyond just privacy and bleed into national security.

Entire world should ban US based apps in this case.

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The U.S government doesn’t have the same ability as the CCP to just get whatever info they want out of corporations with no due process. The two are completely incomparable.

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Fuck Amerika’s national security; I don’t claim this mf country. I don’t even think twice about lying about where I’m from when I’m in international circles that ask me what it is. If someone offered me citizenship with them to Yeonmi Park y’all asses, I’d do it in a new york minute.

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