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collecting vast amount of data ? facebook does that too and instagram and google and who knows what else
Yes, we should ban all those, too. Or just enforce EU style privacy laws in America.
crazy i wonder why the infinity racists amerikkkans decided to start with the platform that is mildly associated with china. surely it has nothing to do with their with the fact that they are most racists people on earth.
But not for a foreign government (from their perspective).
Yeah good old american spyware
Why not? Half of them will sell to the highest bidder
even IF it was true why would u give a shit about a foreign government having ur data, then assholes that are gonna swat u or kidnap u into an unlabeled van arent gonna be foreign they dont fucking care its gonna be ur government doing that shit.
The US government doesn't want an adversary government to have the data of its citizens (because of varios reasons, including mass manipulation for example). They would of course have no issue with having that data themselves though (also because then they would be more in control over how the data is handled).
Whats being questioned isnt why the us gov and the corpos that own it would want to ban tiktok that much is self evident, the question is why any one would give a fuck let alone bother to celebrate it.
Yes. But the US can control US based companies, and create laws regarding how that data is used. They can't control a chineese one.
Do you understand how the US government might think it's a problem that foreign countries get access to every step their citizens take?
Does that matter if they don't create said laws - since they're equally interested in their citizens data as facebook, google, etc. are?
It does matter. Because the US can do it if they decide to. They have significant power over companies based in their country.
They do not have significant power over companies NOT based in their country.
That's not what that means.
The fact that a company who wants to operate in the US has to follow US guidelines is obvious. But doesn't mean the US government has significant power over them if they're not based in the US.
us gov IS controlled by us corps they banned tiktok to get rid of competition. with the ever green excuse in amerikkkan politics of appealing to racism
Sure buddy. And 9/11 was an inside job and airplanes are spreading chem-trails to control the population and weather too.