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@NightOwl@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.ml • 1 year ago

TikTok will not be sold, Chinese parent ByteDance tells US

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TikTok will not be sold, Chinese parent ByteDance tells US

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@NightOwl@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.ml • 1 year ago
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The video sharing app faces being banned in the US unless it severs ties with its China's ByteDance.
  • @itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml
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    Only US tech companies can harvest all that data from their products, I mean, customers.

    • @MisterMoo@lemmy.world
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      I mean let’s be honest, that’s slightly better than US companies plus the Chinese Communist Party being able to do so.

      • @Marketsupreme@lemm.ee
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        They still can, they just have to go back to buying that data lmao

      • @Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world
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        Everybody Sucks Here

      • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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        It’s obviously more of a problem when a government that actually has agency over you harvests your data. If you can’t even understand this, then you’re truly lost.

      • @yamanii@lemmy.world
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        What can China do to you? You don’t live there.

        • @UnpluggedFridge@lemmy.world
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          TikTok enacted a very obvious influence campaign to fight this legislation that resulted in congressional phone lines becoming jammed. So what China can do is directly influence our laws.

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        • @Woozythebear@lemmy.world
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          Because your government can use the information against you while a government on the other side of the planet can’t.

          • @WildPalmTree@lemmy.world
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            Used to be true. See countries affecting populations in foreign countries. Propaganda is not local.

    • @sabin@lemmy.world
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      Problems with this app go beyond just privacy and bleed into national security.

      You as a citizen of your country have an obligation to not freely offer yourself up as an attack vector for cybercriminals all so you could fry your brain with garbage media.

      • @Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world
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        Capitalism is a national security threat

      • loathsome dongeater
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        I hate America though

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        • @sabin@lemmy.world
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            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆
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              just a case of the mask falling off

        • @BaroqueInMind@lemmy.ml
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          Case in point: all the college protests. All the arrests happening are from people being encouraged on TikTok to become aggressive and angry towards apartheid. But the question is how the fuck is protesting at a college going to change what a government in another country is going to do in any way? The Israeli government gives little to no fuck about kids opinions protesting at a college campus in the United States. It’s likely civil unrest being spread by TikTok.

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            All the arrests happening are from people being encouraged on TikTok to become aggressive and angry towards apartheid.

            THEY ARE TRYING TO STOP THE GENOCIDE BEING PERPETRATED IN THEIR NAME

            WTF is wrong with you?

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              • queermunist she/her
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                Israel is dropping US bombs. 🙄

                • @BaroqueInMind@lemmy.ml
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                  How is protesting at a college going to stop it?

                  • queermunist she/her
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                    The colleges have relationships with the companies that make the bombs and have direct investments in Israel.

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                  • queermunist she/her
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                    The cops start mass arrests regardless of aggression.

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              • Amerikan Pharaoh
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                Funded by Amerikan money. The government you uplift, and everyone who still supports them after eight months of unmitigated genocide, is complicit. Is a collaborator.

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          • @Kalysta@lemm.ee
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            College protests have been a thing since Vietnam. Look up Kent State.

            It wasn’t China that gave them the idea, it was history.

            And it’s working. More and more people are sympathizing with Palestine the more the government overreacts to peaceful protests.

          • NoLifeGaming
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            If they don’t care then why did satanyahu come out in a speech against it? Protesting does work and does matter. You only need to look at history to see that

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          • livus
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            Pretty sure people protesting in the US are trying to influence the US govt.

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      • NoLifeGaming
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        As if all these other social medias don’t have garbage media or propaganda

        • @Ragnarok314159@sopuli.xyz
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          We must return to AOL and Friendster.

        • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼
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          That’s not the point

      • @The_Cunt_of_Monte_Cristo@lemmy.world
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        Problems with this app go beyond just privacy and bleed into national security.

        Entire world should ban US based apps in this case.

        • @sabin@lemmy.world
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          The U.S government doesn’t have the same ability as the CCP to just get whatever info they want out of corporations with no due process. The two are completely incomparable.

          • @The_Cunt_of_Monte_Cristo@lemmy.world
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            Do you seriously believe in this?

            • @sabin@lemmy.world
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              Do I honestly believe China has an easier time getting corporations to bend over and violate their citizens rights? Why do you need to clarify this??

              • @The_Cunt_of_Monte_Cristo@lemmy.world
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                What is the difference if both countries access to user data at the end no matter easier or harder way? US is trying to block Tiktok under the name of national security but US itself has been violating other countries’ national security and privacy of people of these countries for years. What bothers me is people like you support this hypocritical action.

                • @sabin@lemmy.world
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                  Hypocritical action? China’s internet hasn’t allowed external companies to offer services since its inception. All I’m saying is if the US wants to treat Chinese companies like China has treated US companies that should be perfectly fine.

                  You’re out here complaining that China’s not receiving the same rights it fails to extend to other people and calling that hypocritical??

                  • @The_Cunt_of_Monte_Cristo@lemmy.world
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                    If the US said “China does not let our companies to operate there so we can not let Chinese companies to operate in the US” I’d be okay for that. Justifying Tiktok ban in the name of national security and privacy what sounds hypocritical to me.

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        Fuck Amerika’s national security; I don’t claim this mf country. I don’t even think twice about lying about where I’m from when I’m in international circles that ask me what it is. If someone offered me citizenship with them to Yeonmi Park y’all asses, I’d do it in a new york minute.

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