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TikTok sues the US government over ban (www.theverge.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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TikTok is taking the US government to court.

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

It's a bad analogy. Mass surveillance (continuous collection of everyone's data) has very little to do with the number we use to track social security payments.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The ownership part was how it was analogous. That was pretty obvious. Any time a massive system is set up for millions of people to use, it quite obviously matters who set it up and why.

I just love when Internet randos pretend not to get analogies because I'm, gasp, comparing things which aren't identical.

In any case, sorry to interrupt your stream of 15 second video clips.

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

Lol

What is the social security system was run by China?

That's your great analogy. This is a social media company. Gtfoh