"TikTok is stealing your data."

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Are you high or sth? The chinese are getting as much extorted as you do, the system of it just differs. Chona got a huge homelessness problem they try to hide from their own people (because officially homelessness was "eradicated" years ago according to propaganda). The worker extortion is brutal and child labour a big problem as well.
However, you won't see anything outspokenly crticial about those systemic problems im China on RedNote or sth., their deletion and suppression algorithms are extremely well tuned. Also they got stuff like neighborhood watch and other means of systemic social suppression who'll be alerted of "problematic people" if you post (too much) criticism. Or of course police, in case you really annoy them or happen to be the wrong ethnicity.

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US government couldn’t give two shits if TikTok steals your data. They just don’t want a foreign adversary to.

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Political interference, that's what people need to fear from the platform. I'm sure if it was Russian I wouldn't have to say it.

Hell, just look at the number of pro TikTok memes being shared right now, there's something fishy happening.

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There are laws, TikTok is almost certainly breaking them.

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And their dickhead CEO is invited to the inauguration. Yeah, fishy.

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You can both be right. The parent post is about perception and propaganda.

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Trump went from wanting it banned to not wanting it banned because it was working in his favor this time, which is... Political interference!

Crazy how hypocritical people are... X should be banned because Musk can interfere in politics with his algorithms, but TikTok doing the same thing on behalf of the Chinese government? No problem!

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His stacked ass SCOTUS all agreed on this. But let me get out my crystal ball… I predict they will change their minds too. Hmm

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Source?

There needs to be at least some evidence that the American subsidiary of tiktok broke data privacy laws

If they did, they'd be tried under those laws, not some new legislation that allows carte blanche banning without a trial. That should tell you everything you need to know about whether there's any proof of them breaking data privacy laws.

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I support blocking Facebook and X from the EU.

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This is the most literate take on the issue that I've seen.

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Young people love the platform. Was it fishy when there were Luigi memes? Regardless of how much the state is involved with the app, it's popular.

Oh look, I must be an agent for the CCP cause I'm suggesting there's a legitimate reason for memes.

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Apparently, Meta has just taken part in a huge destabilizing propaganda campaign here in Brazil. The kind that criminal law has punishment for.

It will certainly take a while to gather all evidence and verify it, so I'm saving the popcorn for later. But I just ensured I have enough kernel for a US-sized portion...

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Another one: Elon Musk is pushing the whole Grooming Gang propaganda on X to cause tensions in the UK. As if nobody cares about victims when the perpetrator happens to be brown. It's absolute populist BS.

He is also saying that the parliament should be dissolved, and is throwing around more outrageous accusations: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2025/01/04/elon-musk-pushes-for-britains-king-charles-to-dissolve-parliament-as-lawmakers-say-tesla-ceo-is-misinformed/

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Hey, child, we can prove you and your state dept propaganda wrong now.

You really should delete this obvious and easily disproven misinformation.

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I don't like or use TikTok, but when I see the US politicians and TV "Security experts" spiting nonsense arguments to justify banning it shows to me that this is a frivolous case to benefit META and Alphabet rather than a genuine concern in data collection and privacy.

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with obvious political agendas

On the case of Brazil, I think it has economical reasons. Meta sells stuff that compete with the social infrastructure it was trying to destabilize.

I would really like to see some laws against media concentration. It's not even important who the media is. Instead, we have some laws that are the opposite of that, so if we solve the Meta problem, something else is due to break shortly after.

But hey, it's entertaining anyway.

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They absolutely should. In fact I'd be surprised if they didn't do something about it eventually.

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Also, they don't care about the data. They care about the influence.

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The average Chinese citizen doesn't have much access to the internet.