• hightrix@lemmy.world
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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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          2 days ago

          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