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Not surprising that Bytedance would want to gobble up every bit of data they can as fast as possible.
Google’s mission statement was originally something about controlling the world’s data. If Google has competition, that might be a good thing?
Yeah, but we were hoping for competition that wasn't worse than google...
What makes you think they're worse than Google?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance
Mostly what they have said and done, but also largely what they intend to continue saying and doing.
Can you distill it down for me?
It's the same old Yankee speech: "is chinese so must be really bad". They're definitely no worse than google or facebook.
They come from an environment where the government actively encourages and sometimes funds stealing copyrighted information couched in a strong history of disregard for human rights. I'm not defending Google, and yes the US government has given them leeway, but if there is the potential for something worse than Google - Bytedance is it.
We're not talking about the United States, man.
So you're saying they're not worse than Google, but they have the potential to be?