• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    It’s just classic moral panic. Our politicians really want us to hate China when it’s like, nah bruh I hate Microsoft.

    • Jim_Just_Jim@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      I wouldn’t call this “classic moral panic”. I would characterize it as our nations leaders demanding that Tiktok revisit their data collection practices in the interest of protecting US citizens.

      • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        If politicians cared about privacy they would be passing a law that inhibits Meta AND Tiktok. American industries get away with simmiliar level of BS, but privacy isn’t a concern to American politicians so long as it’s American eyes watching.

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          8 months ago

          If politicians care one iota about privacy they’d be limiting and regulating what the government itself, some thing they have total control over, can aquire as data.

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        8 months ago

        If politicians actually have a shit about protecting US citizens data, they’d push for legislation to protect US citizens data from all data harvesting apps. Instead “china bad, ban”.