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    9 months ago

    Can’t blame them, my generation popularized social networks even after finding out what they were for.

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      9 months ago

      I can blame them for picking the one that is spyware for the world’s largest hostile dictatorship, you absolute concavebrain moron. Anybody who at this point doesn’t realize what TikToks intended purpose is are willfully ignorant.

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          9 months ago

          150 Million Americans are giving the keys to the kingdom to a hostile militaristic dictatorship with the potential to do harm on a scale beyond anything you’ve ever seen

          in return for vines but worse.

          This is one of those issues where “GET MAD” is the correct response.

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            9 months ago

            “GET MAD” at the proper institution/organizations/companies, not your fellow commenter, who is not even denying what you’re saying. I’m not saying you’re wrong, you’re just being a dick about it.

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            “Hostile militaristic dictatorship” is just the United States. There’s almost zero difference between the US and China in those regards. The only real difference is that Chinese citizens are actually being lifted out of poverty at a rate not seen at any point in history while the US is continuing to impoverish their citizens. Both of them spy on their citizens and have insanely racist cultures.

            There’s no moral difference between using TikTok and Facebook.

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              Ji Xinping has no term limit and was unanimously reelected by the single party congress, completely unopposed. China does not select their leadership.

              The USA criminalizes and punishes misconduct like massive data collection, such as the FCC fining FaceBook 5 Bn USD, but China created and operates an even more invasive and far reaching data collection scheme on their own with TikTok.

              Face it, loyal dog, China is the same monster it has been for a century, just waiting to add millions more bodies to the pile.

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        9 months ago

        Believing the USA has better motives is pretty moronic too. Especially if you live in the USA

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          9 months ago

          Oh is the local Democracy who fines companies like FaceBook billions for doing exactly what TikTok is trying to do

          equivalent in your eyes to

          The Militaristic Expansionist Hostile Dictatorship who created TikTok to do exactly what FaceBook did and rewards them accordingly?

          Thanks for you opinion, dude.

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            9 months ago

            Again, you need to take a step back. The USA has had much more aggressive and violent international policies than China. It being a democracy (which is itself arguable) does not matter.

            And Snowden showed us that the USA are, again, not better than China in terms of mass surveillance.

            China is a problem, but if you can’t see why the global south sees them as a balancing force rather than a threat, well, again, take a step back.

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              China is literally annexing it’s neighboring countries and killing multiple different ethnic minorities en masse. Not 60 years ago, not 10 years ago, right now. It’s happening right now.

              Because they are a Dictatorship. They’re being ruled by an unaccountable class of people.

              You know why Snowden was such a big deal? Because an arm of the US Government did something illegal by its own laws and he exposed it, leading to massive controversy and political action. Because in the USA the people have protections against that sort of thing.