They are just jealous that someone else is getting all the tasty data, and they think it should be going to a US company instead.
Except US TikTok data is hosted by Oracle in the US…?
Doesn’t matter who hosts it. Oracle has no access to the user data. Just because some website is hosted there does not mean that they can see the data.
Yeah, it’s not about ‘data.’
It’s about money. Lol. American rulers want a piece of that pie, and they have plenty of useful idiots spreading FUD to help them.
Despite this, they don’t believe tiktok’s assurances that the CCP doesn’t actually have ready access to the data. However the only evidence they’ve presented is testimony from a former employee.
Even if that were the case, couldn’t the Chinese government just covertly get one of their companies to buy any such data from companies like Meta and Google anyways, and then request it from one of their own firms if they wanted to? Tiktok just makes it so that the Chinese government can (if they were harvesting American data) acquire it for free.
More than that, US companies have maintained monopolies for decades in the tech sector, and feel entitled to them even as markets shift away.
Just like to take this opportunity to say fuck the name “ByteDance”
It’s a stupid, corporate, “hip” name that needs to fade into obscurity asap. Not crazy about the company either, but the name in particular is just so fucking cringe
Seems to be the hip thing for social media companies. Meta, X, anyone else want to chip in absolutely stupid names to the list?
All names are arguably ridiculous
Wish we could just implement some form of federal standards that are aimed towards protecting US citizens’ data instead of just banning a service like tiktok because “China bad”.
Good. I don’t use TikTok and never will, but the government shouldn’t be able to tell you what kind of speech you listen to, what speech you make, or what platforms you use to communicate it. This is some 1984 shit. Looking forward to Trump banning every app except Truth social because we opened the door to this nonsense and all the other apps are spreading “anti-christian hate speech” or “anti-american-first propaganda”. Fuck the CCP. But also fuck the government trying to restrict speech.
Global Earth Federation should just ban all spying software
