• dindonmasker
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    542 days ago

    Not surprising that Bytedance would want to gobble up every bit of data they can as fast as possible.

    • Guy Dudeman
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      132 days ago

      Google’s mission statement was originally something about controlling the world’s data. If Google has competition, that might be a good thing?

      • Tarquinn2049
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        382 days ago

        Yeah, but we were hoping for competition that wasn’t worse than google…

              • @alphabethunter@lemmy.world
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                132 days ago

                It’s the same old Yankee speech: “is chinese so must be really bad”. They’re definitely no worse than google or facebook.

                • @Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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                  222 days ago

                  They come from an environment where the government actively encourages and sometimes funds stealing copyrighted information couched in a strong history of disregard for human rights. I’m not defending Google, and yes the US government has given them leeway, but if there is the potential for something worse than Google - Bytedance is it.

                  • Guy Dudeman
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                    42 days ago

                    They come from an environment where the government actively encourages and sometimes funds stealing copyrighted information couched in a strong history of disregard for human rights.

                    We’re not talking about the United States, man.

                    if there is the potential for something worse than Google - Bytedance is it.

                    So you’re saying they’re not worse than Google, but they have the potential to be?