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Banning TikTok Won’t Keep Your Data Safe | Pompous billionaires, authoritarian regimes, and opaque oligarchs are hoarding our data. Only an alternative online ecosystem will stop them. (foreignpolicy.com)

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[–] winterayars 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Yet nobody cares about US companies like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube manipulating public opinion with their algorithms.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Yes we do

[–] southsamurai 3 points 2 months ago

Plenty of people care, just not enough

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This isnt the point.

An adverserial nation shouldnt be able to influence public opinion like that.

We all understand that those companies do nefarious things. Imo its quite a bit different when its a whole ass country purposefully manipulating public opinion and they dont like the united states.

[–] winterayars 1 points 2 months ago

I get it, i don't want to live in China but i don't want to live in whatever Elon Musk has planned for the US, either, and his wealth gives him undue influence over... pretty much everything. You're not convincing me you've got a consistent take here if you're cool with Twitter but not TikTok.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nobody cares because they are US companies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Seems bizarre that people are okay with public opinion being explicitly manipulated by a very small group of people with very little overlapping interest with the public, but not okay with public opinion being explicitly manipulated by a very small group of people with very little overlapping interest with the public from a foreign country.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Not really. One can be dealt with if needs be, since they're US companies. The other can't because it's the Chinese government.