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

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

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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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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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Used to be true. See countries affecting populations in foreign countries. Propaganda is not local.

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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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