• Miaou@jlai.lu
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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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          9 months ago

          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.