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      7 months ago

      If tiktok can be considered owned by the Chinese gov so can facebook https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM theres tons of programs secret and public that shows american tech companies have to obey to the US government demands.

      Boomers vote more than anyone else

      Facebook owns all the biggest apps, instagram whatsapp, and now threads is getting bigger than twitter. Great lets kill competition because scary china boogeyman all put all the power in the hands of mark zuckerberg, the conservatives that manipulate the platform and pay to manipulate the people on it.

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        If tiktok can be considered owned by the Chinese gov so can facebook https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM theres tons of programs secret and public that shows american tech companies have to obey to the US government demands.

        “In 2014, ByteDance established an internal Chinese Communist Party (CCP) committee.[47] The company’s vice president, Zhang Fuping, serves as the company’s CCP Committee Secretary.[48][49]”

        This is not a defense of FB or american companies, but rather an indictment of tiktok and an acknowledgement that the degree of CCP involvement in tiktok is not the same as neolib involvement in FB.

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          PRISM and countless programs arent conspiracies they are facts. The US isnt totalitarian to their citizens but they are to the millions of people who’s countries theyve placed fascists into power to kill and imprison their citizens

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          So why did the PRISM project exists? If there is freedom to deny the government access why did american companies all get in bed with it? This is also not a conspiracy since Snowden will be jailed if he steps foot in american soil.

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      Does anyone even use FB anymore besides boomers?

      Ok, so boomers are not actually people, facebook’s 3 billion active users don’t exist, and 250 million of those fake people are certainly not from the fake US.

      But TikTok…

      Amazing how we are talking of Chinese surveillance while the US just renewed another one of its surveillance bills.

      So much “I am immune to, and can spot all propaganda” in this thread.

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          His point would be legit and fine if he didn’t tack on the “only I am right and you are wrong” part.

          It’s true that we should be passing something like GDPR that ensures privacy in all apps, and not just TikTok.

          But I’m certainly in favor of going after TikTok regardless. I hope Facebook and Google and Reddit and Apple are next on the list.