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[–] [email protected] 180 points 6 months ago (60 children)

Only US tech companies can harvest all that data from their products, I mean, customers.

[–] MisterMoo 30 points 6 months ago (6 children)

I mean let’s be honest, that’s slightly better than US companies plus the Chinese Communist Party being able to do so.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago

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

[–] Ultragigagigantic 18 points 6 months ago

Everybody Sucks Here

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

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

[–] yamanii 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] UnpluggedFridge 3 points 6 months ago

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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