Wait, people are really just moving from one chinese spyware app designed to sow discord and destabilize western societies to another chinese spyware app designed to sow discord and destabilize western societies?
If sowing discord means posting pictures of food and just generally being nice to one another, I’m not sure the status quo being disturbed is worth protecting.
Oh no it turns out that Chinese people are friendly and normal this will surely be the downfall of the West.
The problem with TT isn’t it’s content, the “food pictures and people being nice to each other” you referenced, its with how TT uses its algorithm to influence its users and the risk of them misusing the data their app collects.
Like the ones in the EU that just don’t get enforced?
Btw, banning a platform can and should be a consequence for not adhering to robust privacy laws (for example after too grave and/or repeated offenses).
Banning apps as a consequence sure, but we know that this has everything to do with the second cold war and nothing to do with actual privacy concerns.
Wait, people are really just moving from one chinese spyware app designed to sow discord and destabilize western societies to another chinese spyware app designed to sow discord and destabilize western societies?
If sowing discord means posting pictures of food and just generally being nice to one another, I’m not sure the status quo being disturbed is worth protecting.
Oh no it turns out that Chinese people are friendly and normal this will surely be the downfall of the West.
Election Interference so blatant that the EU started formal proceedings.
Multiple studies, including a very recent one by Rutgers and NCR, showing it’s a pro CCP propaganda vehicle.
It lied about collecting precise user data.
It lied about whether that data was accessible to ByteDance and it lied about not using that data to track people.
The problem with TT isn’t it’s content, the “food pictures and people being nice to each other” you referenced, its with how TT uses its algorithm to influence its users and the risk of them misusing the data their app collects.
I mean, if you just remove politics, most interactions are normal
As opposed to a spyware app owned by the local government that’s designed to sow discord and destabilize any opposition to the local oligarchs?
Seems to me that, for most people, there’s more personal risk in being spied on by local cops than foreign ones.
Ah yes, that thing is bad but so is another thing so let’s not fix any of the problems
Banning apps doesn’t fix anything either. You know as well as I do that the solution is robust privacy laws
Like the ones in the EU that just don’t get enforced?
Btw, banning a platform can and should be a consequence for not adhering to robust privacy laws (for example after too grave and/or repeated offenses).
Banning apps as a consequence sure, but we know that this has everything to do with the second cold war and nothing to do with actual privacy concerns.
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