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Tiktok is Chinese spyware, that's been caught again and again to send user data to servers in China. How can anyone in their right mind not be outspoken and negative about this shit?
Users leaving tiktok in favor of xhs are totally insane.
It really puzzles me that many people in this thread that don't know to what degrees an authoritarian country censors their dada, never lived in one, and can't read their language, somehow think giving your personal information to that one is better. Being able to discuss such things is already a privilege. If your bag has to be searched twice a day just to be able to commute, I thought you will at least feel uncomfortable.
Agree. I lived in China until last August and left after about 7 years, my wife is Chinese, I speak Chinese. Yet I was alienated on a near constant basis (comes with not looking Chinese, I guess).
Luckily I avoided most of the bag searches by driving my own car (and admittedly, at least where I was at the searches on subway stations were half assed at best), but it sure is a nuisance to be under constant surveillance.
I understand it perfectly, if american companies harvest their data, their govt is only a step from having it, and companies over here have immediate use of that data.
If the chinese companies have it, the chinese govt has it, and then what? Is china gonna prosecute us internationally with the info? At minimum they are making the US companies and govt crawl to china for the data they so desperately want.
Like, the US gets more use of data on US citizens than China would. Maybe if the concern was improving the security of american apps and data I would see the point, but seeing how many american companies continue to get away with it, it is blatant "America Good, others Bad"
But why give your data to anyone? I totally understand the argument that you don't want your own government to have it, but willingly surrendering it to another nation is sketchy at best. With Lemmy, Mastodon and Pixelfed there are sufficient tracking-free alternatives with solid enough apps for most use cases.
Fair, but alot of people are going to wind up on a corporate social media anyways, and if they aren't willing to jump over to more private options this is a mitigation of the damage and simultaneously is an act of defiance, so while not the best choice, I still regard it as better than, say, anything Meta owns. So I feel this shouldnt be beaten down on so hard, but rather used as a chance to say "Yeah, that is a step, but here are some better options". Talking down about their choice on a platform they already aren't on as if it is somehow worse than what is being pushed on them is just screaming into the void.
What is China going to do?
Hell with China's track record, it's better that China has it than the US government if you're in the US.
China treats data as bad as the US, I want neither of them to have access.
man, keep these hits coming!
I'm building a database of y'all that keep trying to say "both sides are bad" just to track what your other opinions are over time.
don't worry, I'll keep the data on a server outside the US so you'll feel safer.
This is so funny because it’s suppose to sound scary but no one actually gives a fuck.
you think I said it to be scary?
no. I didn't say it to be scary. I said it because it's the only way to identify platform manipulation.
like users that flip from one extreme to the other from comment to comment...
one second they say nobody cares about privacy and the next time they bemoan how the oligarchy owns us and we can't stop it(a clear cry for help if I ever heard one).
I want to track users like that so we can have a clearer understanding of who is abusing the platform.