"TikTok is stealing your data."

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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.

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None that are comprehensive and strong like all the rest of the G7

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They did. Divisions H and I of HR 815 of the 118th Congress make it illegal to collect, broker, lease, trade, or sell US Citizen's personally identifying data to an adversarial nation which is defined in Article 10 as China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea.

You're complaining about the law and you literally have no idea what that law says?

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If the catered ads weren’t so obvious that pretty much most social platforms are stealing your data, not sure what is.

Nothing is free. Especially a ‘free’ account. You are the product at that point.

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Musk's X hurting America is just America hurting itself, deservedly. TikTok hurting America is the CCP hurting America, undeservedly.

You can see how an American Company operating rationally would want to limit negative socioeconomic outcomes, but a Chinese Dictatorship Military operation would want to maximize it?