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@NightOwl@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.ml • 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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@NightOwl@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.ml • 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.
  • 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!

    • @Schorsch@feddit.de
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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?

      • @Tak@lemmy.ml
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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.

        • @Schorsch@feddit.de
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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.

          • @Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml
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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.”

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

              • @Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml
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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.

            • @Schorsch@feddit.de
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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.

              • @Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml
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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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