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minus-square@dx1linkEnglish2•12 days ago If that were true then they wouldn’t have given ByteDance the option to sell 80% to citizens and continue operating. Except the entire point of that is the U.S. ownership would succumb to that pressure.
minus-square@finitebanjolinkEnglish0•12 days ago*U.S. Citizen Ownership Because yeah, Chinese Military ownership is problematic for an app used by US Citizens.
minus-square@dx1linkEnglish1•edit-210 days agoOh, now it’s owned by the Chinese military? Which part of “freedom of speech” involves precluding us from ingesting content from a country our government decided it doesn’t like? Or electing to send our own device data or interactions to that country?
Except the entire point of that is the U.S. ownership would succumb to that pressure.
*U.S. Citizen Ownership
Because yeah, Chinese Military ownership is problematic for an app used by US Citizens.
Oh, now it’s owned by the Chinese military?
Which part of “freedom of speech” involves precluding us from ingesting content from a country our government decided it doesn’t like? Or electing to send our own device data or interactions to that country?
It was always owned by Chinese Military.
Sure, if you say so.