• Pacattack57@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Why? Cuz Chinese bad? Stolen data bad? I think you don’t understand that there is no safe data. It doesn’t matter who is taking it but your data is owned by someone. If not the Chinese it’s the US government. If not them then you’re phone provider. If you purchase ANYTHING, that store is collecting your data.

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        2 days ago

        People keep making this argument comparing TikTok to American social media companies when talking about data.

        What is hard to understand? Americans are fine with other Americans or American companies having their data. Americans are not fine with China having their data.

        It is pretty simple.

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            2 days ago

            That’s one way to look at it, not my intent but if that’s how you took it, enjoy.

            More like, foreign control of my mental state is bad.

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              It really just sounds like unintentional racism to me. A vague dislike and distrust of foreigners. Nobody able to prove the Chinese intentions are any worse than the American gov’s intentions.

              I agree mas data collection is wrong, but if we’re gonna be upset, it’s gotta cover the whole topic, not just china