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Americans when Canadians say they'd prefer TikTok spying vs an American company:
but seriously. I want no one to have my data, but if someone HAD to have it, I would prefer TikTok over anything from Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, etc..
My country wont export me to China if I post something negative or pirate something. My country will export me to the US if they come banging on my door. I am quite literally safer letting China have a bit of my data.
This is the worst take I've ever heard. The concerns are "capitalist targeted advertising" vs "a foreign power abusing American user data to target and push agendas on it's people".
Is lemmygrad leaking??
I'm not a lemmygrad user. I'm simply stating facts?
There's literally many recent news articles of Canadians getting in legal trouble from American companies because of the things they posted or things they downloaded.
The Canadian government isn't handing me over to China or allowing China to come get me.
My comment is not even pro China. I'm just saying that nothing I say or do will allow China to put me in jail. Can't say the same about America.
You should learn to read. I would prefer no one get my data, but it's statistically safer for me for China to get it over an American company. However, no one should get it. Fuck shit American companies, fuck shit Chinese companies.
How is "getting in trouble with American companies" (i.e. getting banned from a platform for breaking their rules) worse than a foreign power trying to influence a countries people? You're not going to jail for posting dumb bullshit lol
Who said about getting banned?
If I pirate Photoshop, Adobe could come for me if they really wanted to. Canada doesn't care about piracy, you don't need to use a VPN here, but if the American company Adobe really wanted at me, Canada would not stop them.
If I pirated some Chinese software ~~there~~ their government couldn't do shit to me.
You know geohot, the guy sued by Sony for hacking the ps3? He was American, but that doesn't change much. If he was Canadian, he would've been fucked just the same. Now if I hacked a Chinese console to enable piracy, literally nothing would happen to me.
If I made a threat on the Presidents life, I would be watched and potentially have American feds knocking on my door. If I threatened China, I would get upvotes and people would laugh.
You're not really understanding what I'm saying. I'm assuming you're American? The country where pretty much every massive company operates from? Well, the rest of the world hates that nearly everything we do is funneled back into the US.
Use Windows? MacOS? Android? iOS? Gmail? Outlook? Yahoo? Microsoft Office? Facebook? Instagram? Reddit?.. the list goes on.
Now imagine if 95% of your data was funneled into a different country. I'm sure you'd hate it. Especially with the state of American politics right now. Your country is dangerous.
I'm not American, I'm Canadian, and I never said that I'm cool with their government's recent developments, but that doesn't mean the Chinese government collecting and using your data to push it's agenda on foreign citizens is better, that's absolutely insane.
And your argument is that you want to freely and openly hack proprietary software and make threats on the US president's life? Lol what the fuck.
Please tell me where China is pushing their agenda on me? My TikTok is full of American and Canadian creators, talking about technology, science, animals, and comedy. Also a bit of food.
That's also not my argument, but congrats on missing the point.
If you don't understand what I'm saying, that's on you. I'm not having a back and forth about this any longer, I escaped Reddit because of that. You can go back there if you want to argue and mix words with others. I'm not having that.
Don't waste your time, the guy is a troll. Just look at the comment history.
Look at YOUR comment history across multiple platforms comrade
Yeah look at it and educate yourself so you don't sound like a clown in the future.
Lol. Your mirror is need of that comment
US is the foreign power that has the most influence on people in Canada dummy.
No, the US is the foreign power who's culture has the biggest influence on people in Canada, there's no tangible reason to believe that big US tech companies are feeding your data to the US government and taking orders on how to influence it's people. Tech companies in the US have shown time and time again that they have no interest in working with the US government (a problem of itself) and every piece of user data handed over has been through a court order.
TikTok has failed numerous global security audits and there's reason to believe that they're tied directly to the Chinese government and being used by the Chinese government to influence foreign citizens via misinformation and the removal of "anti-Chinese" material.
Yeah yeah, both are bad, sure, but one is worse and it's direct Chinese government influence. Anyone that says otherwise is a troll or needs to seriously practice some basic critical thinking skills.
US is the foreign power whose culture, money, media companies, and oligarchs have the biggest influence on Canada. This is the country that constantly meddles in Canadian politics. Meanwhile, we know perfectly well after Snowden leaks that US companies very much do work with US government, and one has to be an utter ignoramus to claim otherwise.
Meanwhile, numerous audits have shown that the type of data TikTok collects is exactly the same as any other major social media platform. Stop spreading misinformation here.
Thinking that there is any equivalence between the amount of influence US and China have on Canada is sheer idiocy, and your woefully misinformed comment inadvertently highlights the problem. You should take your own advice and practice some critical thinking skill as not to make a 🤡 of yourself in public in the future.
As I previously said, this was data they were ordered to hand over, which is obviously problematic, but since then E2EE has been implemented all over big tech while they've fought against backdoor access. While this is obviously self-serving and only because of global backlash, it proves that these tech companies have no interest in working for the US government. Your statements are surface level depth and show a real lack of understanding on this subject.
Stop sliding the conversation. I never said they collected more data, I said they've failed security audits and there is reason to believe they are willingly handing it over the Chinese government and taking direction from the Chinese government.
Lol again, as I said, you're mistaking culture influence for foreign government influence.
You're continuously sliding the conversation into trying to make it sound like I feel like US tech has no issues while being critical of Chinese tech. I am critical of both, however I'm not an "utter ignoramus" lmao and I can recognize how fucking stupid of a statement "I prefer China to have my data" is.
I'm gunna go with Chinese propaganda troll for you!
Edit: Hahaha called it. Check out this dude's posts, it's all Chinese and anti-west propaganda.
The only one who's showing genuine lack of understanding on this subject is the one who thinks that all of this magically stopped. The wiretapping that Snowden reported on was also illegal at the time, and thinking that it stopped takes an incredible amount of naivete.
Nobody is sidelining the conversation, I'm just pointing out that TikTok doesn't actually do anything out of the ordinary. Meanwhile, there is zero evidence for your claim that TikTok takes direction from Chinese government. In fact, it's registered in Singapore, which you evidently weren't aware off.
No I'm not. US has both cultural and government influence, and the fact that you don't understand that is absolutely hilarious.
You have shown evidence beyond doubt that you are an ignoramus and having no actual argument to make you're just doing mud slinging at this point. 🤣
Imagine not being able to recognize that the government that has power over you having your data is far worse. This demonstrates monumental levels of stupidity.
Imagine being a troll for the US empire. What an utter clown you are.
Yeeaah not looking to discuss anything further with employees of troll farms actually, feel free keep hitting me with downvotes from your alt accounts though
Imagine being so detached from reality to think that anybody who disagrees with you is working for a troll farm. Not being able to even consider that what you said is just dumb and that's why you're getting downvoted is really just a cherry on top. Looks like we have a copy of your employee handbook here:
Are you seriously implying the 'murican government wouldn't get easy access to whatever data an US company has on you?
No, the problem is Chinese-aligned whataboutism, a hallmark of tankie bullshit. People deflect to American spying to justify Tiktok's spying, as if people aren't already mad at Meta, Google, Amazon, and the rest spying on them. On the individual level, one is letting anyone "get away" with spying, so saying Tiktok should "also" be able to get away with spying is complete bullshit. We can be mad about all of these companies spying at us at the same time.
Have you seen anyone respond to criticism about Facebook's tracking policies with "oh but Tiktok also tracks you so you should be okay with this?" Because I sure haven't, but it comes up all the time when people discuss Tiktok. It's just so disingenuous... allow people to discuss topics, we'll get to shitting on Facebook and Google too, don't worry. Detracting every Tiktok convo to that just makes you appear as if you're trying to shove their wrongdoing under the rug.
And if you're talking about foreign policy, western social medias are already blocked in China out of the same national security concerns that's behind a potential Tiktok ban. It is extremely dangerous to allow foreign, especially hostile powers to influence your society through the algorithms of a social media, because they have a very clear incentive to make your population elect the worst possible people and sow chaos. This is why a lot of non-western-aligned countries block western social medias, and this is why the west should also block non-western social medias. It wouldn't be unprecedented.
You are aware thar 'murica, your golden "western democracy", has meddled in many more elections than China, yes? The CIA has been proven to be connected to TWO Brazilian coups...
Which is why I wouldn't blame Brazil if they banned American or otherwise western-aligned social medias. But I'm sorry, "we fucked around with others and therefore we shouldn't ensure our own national security" is a completely lunatic take.
First, neither coup was related to social media. Second, that's a strawman
It really isn't a strawman. There are two ways you can interpret the above meme:
Interpretation #1 is one of the coldest takes possible on the internet. Read the room, no one was excusing American companies of spying, and plenty of people are mad about Meta, Twitter, and the rest. Hell, the whole reason most of us are here on Lemmy is because we grew tired of more corporate social medias. The meme format here implies that the point expressed is controversial, and interpretation #1 is objectively non-controversial, so the meme is either stupid or that's not what it's saying.
And interpretation #2 is exactly what you just called a strawman here. It's complete lunacy and borderline bootlicking to suggest that we should allow other companies to also spy on us. And why exactly? Just because you want to see that team "win", at the expense of all of us losing even more?
But I have to think you're going with interpretation #2, because of this:
If those coups weren't related to social media, why bring them up? We're discussing social media here. This only makes sense if you're playing the us vs them of geopolitics, and like, just don't.
In the end, we want none of these companies to spy on us. And unlike domestic companies or those headquartered in allied countries, social media companies in hostile countries not only pose a risk to individual privacy, they are also a national security risk. Which is why China bans western social medias, and why the west should also ban Chinese social medias. Both of these measures are a net benefit, and neither of these measures precludes taking action against domestic or allied social medias -- but unlike Bytedance, which is a Chinese company, western regulation can be enforced far easier against western social medias, and the same can be said about Chinese regulation regarding Chinese social medias.
Don't worry the illegally operating Chinese police station in your city will just come and get you. No need to be exported, you get to be questioned and held by a foreign officer without any direct oversight in your own country!
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/there-may-be-more-chinese-police-stations-canada-minister-says-2023-05-14/
The point
your head
The point being that the US even if aggressive uses the proper channels to pursue action against entities it believes to be dangerous?
How is that worse than China illegally and secretively doing the exact same thing within your own borders they promised to respect.
I DO NOT WANT MY DATA ON AMERICAN SERVERS.
I DO NOT WANT MY DATA ON AMERICAN SERVERS.
I DO NOT WANT MY DATA ON AMERICAN SERVERS.
Nobody cares.
Then people should stop asking me..
Okay next time you can stop there then if that's all you want to say. No need to vaguely complain about YOUR GOVERNMENT extraditing criminals to the US while willfully ignoring the fact China engages in ILLEGAL operations within your border.