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The fact that TikTok is still allowed to run amok when the PRC has their hands all over it and also shows completely different content to Chinese users is the greatest irony and crime here
most Americans can't speak chinese
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most Americans can't speak chinese
You don't need to speak Chinese to know that any large corporation that exists in the PRC does so at the behest of their government, and must kowtow to their surveillance demands accordingly.
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You don't need to speak Chinese to know that any large corporation that exists in the PRC does so at the behest of their government, and must kowtow to their surveillance demands accordingly.
Every American social media company is a front for NSA surveillance and CIA propaganda, what's your point? I thought we were supposed to believe in free markets and competition around here.
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Every American social media company is a front for NSA surveillance and CIA propaganda, what's your point? I thought we were supposed to believe in free markets and competition around here.
Alternatives that exist openly in the US would not be suffered to exist in the PRC -- for instance, Signal.
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You don't need to speak Chinese to know that any large corporation that exists in the PRC does so at the behest of their government, and must kowtow to their surveillance demands accordingly.
Every American social media company is a front for NSA surveillance and CIA propaganda, what's your point? I thought we were supposed to believe in free markets and competition around here.
No legal fiction is inured to the machinations of its host state.
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Every American social media company is a front for NSA surveillance and CIA propaganda, what's your point? I thought we were supposed to believe in free markets and competition around here.
Alternatives that exist openly in the US would not be suffered to exist in the PRC -- for instance, Signal.
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China is an enemy of the US, the Gazans are an enemy if the US, the Yemeni which the US are bombing are an enemy of the US, Biden just said Iran is an enemy of the US.
Russia is an enemy of the US, Syria is an enemy of the US, North Korea is an enemy of the US. Venezuela is an enemy of the US, Cuba is an enemy of the US.
It just goes on and on and on.
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How do their prices compare to their non-Chinese competitors?
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Alternatives that exist openly in the US would not be suffered to exist in the PRC -- for instance, Signal.
Again, I see little difference between the PRC and USA in this regard. As an American, I couldn't care less about Chinese surveillance. But my own government has an active interest in monitoring my politics for thoughtcrime and influencing my thoughts and actions. Making a moral panic only about the foreign platform seems, itself, like propaganda.
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Alternatives that exist openly in the US would not be suffered to exist in the PRC -- for instance, Signal.
Again, I see little difference between the PRC and USA in this regard. As an American, I couldn't care less about Chinese surveillance. But my own government has an active interest in monitoring my politics for thoughtcrime and influencing my thoughts and actions. Making a moral panic only about the foreign platform seems, itself, like propaganda.
Countries other than the USA have agency and interests, and are entirely capable of seeking to influence your thoughts and actions to affect change if it furthers their goals (it is literally an election year).