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As if any of the other social media networks aren't doing the same shit. I'd rather have China spy on me than an American company. They can't use my data to fuck me over.

And the very next day:

"It's okay that the CCP pushes propaganda because billionaires do it too" - Tiktok defenders

This article from 2024 gives a pretty good rundown as to why using this reasoning to ban Tiktok will set a very bad precedent:

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/14/1251086753/tiktok-ban-first-amendment-lawsuit-free-speech-project-texas

If the govt cared about your data privacy, they would create data collection regulations that they could then use to ban tiktok if/when they violate them.

Disclaimer: I am not saying Tiktok is a great app with zero issues. This is a concern about causing long term problems by using a short term easy solution.

I found it interesting that this Tiktok regulation talk hit peak fervor around the time that youths were using tiktok to fully grasp the severity of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Meanwhile mainstream corporate media was painting a very different and dishonest story of the genocide.

We need broad regulation for social media in the US, not cherry picked fervor for political reasons.

Americans complaining about other countries meddling in their affairs is such a hilarious hypocrisy. You guys have been the worst for ruining other countries around the world.

All American social networks are also spyware

Good luck criticizing a user’s choice of platform hoping to get them to leave. I’m just happy to see one less corporate platform.

“You really shouldn’t jump rope on the train tracks. It’s not safe.”

“What’s not safe about jumping rope? Everybody jump’s rope.”

“It’s not jumping rope that’s the problem, it’s the train tracks.”

“I think I’m smart enough to know if a train is coming. It’s not like the train is coming for me specifically. I’m not that important. I don’t have anything valuable enough for the train to take from me anyw-“ splat

Those are valid criticisms, but can equally be applied to all of the rest of our main social media platforms.

I’m not seeing a big difference here between TikTok and YouTube except that one is not able to be influenced or backdoored by the US government and the other is.

In essence the optics here look an awful lot like the US simply doesn’t like other nations mining their citizens data that they want for themselves, and having foreign control of the type of news being fed by their algorithm.

Just remember that before Snowden dropped a dime on the NSA, similar suspicions sounded pretty wacky too

In this house, we only like propaganda that's covering up genocide. /s

i like my all-american freedom and liberty data collection and propaganda

The last panel applies to every other social media, just replace the spying country.