• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    And yet China is banning basically the whole Western internet, foreign companies must enter joint ventures with Chinese companies under government control. Reciprocity is fair. Why should Byte Dance be allowed to take in billions to fund Chinese gulags?

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      7 months ago

      China does thing: Bad

      America does same thing: Good

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        7 months ago

        At least the US government can’t harvest US citizens social media data without a warrant (excepting all the patriot act stuff). But there is zero protection for your data from the CCP if it’s on TikTok. That’s understandably a pretty huge security concern. I can also understand China not wanting data from their citizens in the hands of American social media companies. Idk if any if it is good or bad but it’s certainly common sense on a national level.

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      7 months ago

      As someone who’s neither chinese nor american I want nothing more than these countries to keep their hands to themselves. I don’t like China doing it, and I don’t want the US doing it because China does it. Are y’all gonna hand a piece of your companies to every country they operate in? I’m guessing “no”.

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      7 months ago

      Why do you want our social media to mirror China? That’s the real question. What’s the US gonna do with our data that’s so much better? Oh yeah, fund our allies genocides! Yay! 🥳

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        7 months ago

        Why do you want our social media to mirror China? That’s the real question.

        I want Chinese companies face exactly the same hurdles in the west as western companies face in China. Applies to all economic branches, not just social media.

        Oh yeah, fund our allies genocides! Yay! 🥳

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

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          In what way is taking a platform away from millions of Americans an acceptable way to do that? Yes, our taxes are funding a genocide and instead of listening to the droves of people protesting that they suddenly all get together and magically agree to ban tiktok. They can’t agree to feed school children but still agreed to ban TikTok. The fact that you see it as retaliation is also hilarious because that’s supposed to be illegal and they’re still claiming that’s not why they’re doing it. Even you see through that bullshit on accident

          Everything I said was relevant to my point. You linked the wiki to whataboutism and still used it wrong lmaooooo.