Everyone collects our data… Apple, Google, third party apps… everyone. So what is the really concern with China doing it specifically? Everything I have tried to read about this just talks about how China will use it for ads, but that’s what tons of other tech companies are already doing… so why is China owning our data different?
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The honest answer is that China is just the latest foreign adversary which politicians are using as a prop to show how tough they are to the public. I’m sure you saw clips of the TikTok CEO speaking to American congressmen. It was embarrassing how little our politicians actually knew about the technology. The whole affair was essentially set up so that each politician could show how anti-China they were on a public stage. Even in this thread nobody is really getting at the crux of your question. Any scenario where TikTok is actually weaponized against Americans is, to be frank, incredibly far fetched. There’s also no evidence of them acting in nefarious ways as people are hypothesizing they will – in contrast to companies like Facebook which have already been caught manipulating our political process.
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