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They are just jealous that someone else is getting all the tasty data, and they think it should be going to a US company instead.
I'm a bit worried about the amount of people I see making this argument whenever I see posts about a TikTok ban/acquisition.
I'm getting the impression that, either:
Am I correct? Is there a nuance I'm missing?
I can understand concerns over point #2 here, but #1 and #3 seem wild to me.
Well since I see US propaganda literally everywhere else it's nice to get some counter-programming.
Yli.think you make a reasonable point, but it feels like choosing between getting stabbed in the left leg vs the right leg.
If it were the US vs another democratic country, I would feel like that too.
I'm particularly concerned with China (and Russia) because:
I might have a different perspective though. I'm a fairly recent US immigrant from Canada.
Edit: I'd like to add, my tone may come across wrong over written text, I'm just trying to understand people's overall perspective and whether mine is different, I'm not trying to argue and I'm not upset at you nor any of the commenters I've seen on similar posts.
You're getting hit by a some bad faith willful misunderstander comments
It's true that Russia or China aren't well-intentioned nor democracies AND the USA belongs to that same group.
Why would you say that? Meanwhile, Princeton University Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy. Which isn’t surprising since capitalist democracy is a sham democracy.
I can only say that they are freer than Anglosphere propaganda claim. Meanwhile Julian Assange has been a political prisoner for 12 years and counting, despite even the major Global North corporate media pleading for his exoneration.
I’m not sure which countries you’re referring to, but maybe you mean the other imperial core countries. As neocolonizers, they are no more well-intentioned than the US is, from the perspective of the periphery countries they plunder.
Your comment is a perfect example of what US propaganda does to people.
I was wondering whether what felt like common sense to me was the same as what felt like common sense for others, and I see that between us it's not.
I'm not gonna bother trying to argue with you, I doubt it would be productive in any way, I'm not gonna change your mind. Additionally, you've put a lot of words into my mouth and inferred that I believe a lot of things that I really don't believe, which is a bit upsetting.
Except US TikTok data is hosted by Oracle in the US...?
Yeah, it's not about 'data.'
It's about money. Lol. American rulers want a piece of that pie, and they have plenty of useful idiots spreading FUD to help them.
Doesn’t matter who hosts it. Oracle has no access to the user data. Just because some website is hosted there does not mean that they can see the data.
Despite this, they don't believe tiktok's assurances that the CCP doesn't actually have ready access to the data. However the only evidence they've presented is testimony from a former employee.
Even if that were the case, couldn't the Chinese government just covertly get one of their companies to buy any such data from companies like Meta and Google anyways, and then request it from one of their own firms if they wanted to? Tiktok just makes it so that the Chinese government can (if they were harvesting American data) acquire it for free.
More than that, US companies have maintained monopolies for decades in the tech sector, and feel entitled to them even as markets shift away.