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US moves to force ByteDance to sell TikTok

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Re: US moves to force ByteDance to sell TikTok

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This is getting the most extreme social mind control tool mankind has ever created out of the hands of a government that did Tianemen Square and is doing the Uygers right now. A government who controls all under its purview with an iron fist, and shares absolutely zero common interests with any young person in the west.

The resistance to it on this forum, of all places, is kind of incredible.

Re: US moves to force ByteDance to sell TikTok

#46
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Even if they sell it (or "sell" it) wouldn't it remain a "security risk" as it probably has government agents working as programmers (even more than other big tech)?

If they could control what kind of information can be spread in TikTok, I believe they don't care about whether the user data is leaking or not.

Re: US moves to force ByteDance to sell TikTok

#47

This is getting the most extreme social mind control tool mankind has ever created out of the hands of a government that did Tianemen Square and is doing the Uygers right now. A government who controls all under its purview with an iron fist, and shares absolutely zero common interests with any young person in the west. The resistance to it on this forum, of all places, is kind of incredible.

Into the hands of another gov doing (funding) genocide and oppression just the same.

This is all a case of “Corp can’t compete? Lobby to ban.”

This is bog standard capitalism.

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