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@[email protected] to World [email protected] • 1 year ago

TikTok will not be sold, Chinese parent ByteDance tells US

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TikTok will not be sold, Chinese parent ByteDance tells US

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@[email protected] to World [email protected] • 1 year ago
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The video sharing app faces being banned in the US unless it severs ties with its China's ByteDance.
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    I mean let’s be honest, that’s slightly better than US companies plus the Chinese Communist Party being able to do so.

    • a1studmuffin
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      I don’t know about you, but if I must leak my private data like a sieve to use the internet, I’d much rather that data go to a government that isn’t governing me!

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        A government that isn’t governing you … yet and that has no ambitions (/s) to take over as much power as possible in the country you live in, you mean?

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          Ahh yes, I should be worried about how they could in the future, do something while my current government can make me a fucking slave, legally if they decide to.

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            Look, I don’t know which country you live in but if you’re worried it might make you a slave, you should riot (if at all possible, that is). Be part of the opposition.

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              The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

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                Damn I thought private prisons were a loophole and not in the constitution to punish people with slave labor.

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                  Since the days the first settlers landed here, the backbone of the US economy has been forced labor. It’s only natural that we would enshrine it in our constitution.

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                So what…?
                Not everybody is living in the “default country” and also, with the US we see how well it all works for them and how slavery is not a thing there at all.

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                  Wow, you said you didn’t know which country had legalized slavery, and I answered and you turned into an obstinate asshole for some reason. What a weird way to behave!

                  E: ah, wait, German. That makes sense.

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      They still can, they just have to go back to buying that data lmao

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      Everybody Sucks Here

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      It’s obviously more of a problem when a government that actually has agency over you harvests your data. If you can’t even understand this, then you’re truly lost.

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      Not having the choice is slightly worse I’d say.

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      What can China do to you? You don’t live there.

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        TikTok enacted a very obvious influence campaign to fight this legislation that resulted in congressional phone lines becoming jammed. So what China can do is directly influence our laws.

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        Removed by mod

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      Removed by mod

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        Because your government can use the information against you while a government on the other side of the planet can’t.

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          Used to be true. See countries affecting populations in foreign countries. Propaganda is not local.

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        Because definitionally, fewer people doing a bad thing is better than more people doing a bad thing?

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