Like all other social media, they harvest an invasive amount of data. Not more than meta apps or anything, but it is part of standard capitalist practice. They exist, like every mainstream social media platform in China or America, to promote economic interests in a corporate system. It deranked BLM videos because deranking popular dissent is part and parcel with selling to advertisers. China doesn’t even need a backdoor, just the basic understanding of how it’s similar to all their own apps.
China is another capitalist empire under a different flag. They’re neoliberal to the bone, only better at exploiting the system than America in certain ways. They don’t want to undermine the global capitalist order, as they’re quite good at winning in it. They’ve become more nationalistic and hawkish militarily, but that’s a direct result of neoliberalism. It quickly becomes unpopular if there aren’t internal and external scapegoats. The degenerate western influences are scapegoated there, while the degenerate commie immigrants are the enemy here.
All of it serves to protect power. Trump will adopt many strategies from them, because that is what their government exists to do.
harvesting makes it sound like genuine work which i’m not a fan of… - like they are farmers actually harvesting stuff and making use of it (which, sure they make use of it but also eh, i donn wanna put that into the same category as genuine human labour… which i know it is labour, but hmgrrrr idk feels bad.)
Except they didn’t, they literally handle US data differently than every other country to keep it on US-based servers and hired a bunch of US spooks. Do you think China wanted Tiktok deranking BLM videos in 2020?
You don’t have to uncritically accept everything the state department tells you.
Like all other social media, they harvest an invasive amount of data. Not more than meta apps or anything, but it is part of standard capitalist practice. They exist, like every mainstream social media platform in China or America, to promote economic interests in a corporate system. It deranked BLM videos because deranking popular dissent is part and parcel with selling to advertisers. China doesn’t even need a backdoor, just the basic understanding of how it’s similar to all their own apps.
China is another capitalist empire under a different flag. They’re neoliberal to the bone, only better at exploiting the system than America in certain ways. They don’t want to undermine the global capitalist order, as they’re quite good at winning in it. They’ve become more nationalistic and hawkish militarily, but that’s a direct result of neoliberalism. It quickly becomes unpopular if there aren’t internal and external scapegoats. The degenerate western influences are scapegoated there, while the degenerate commie immigrants are the enemy here.
All of it serves to protect power. Trump will adopt many strategies from them, because that is what their government exists to do.
harvesting makes it sound like genuine work which i’m not a fan of… - like they are farmers actually harvesting stuff and making use of it (which, sure they make use of it but also eh, i donn wanna put that into the same category as genuine human labour… which i know it is labour, but hmgrrrr idk feels bad.)
Scraping I’d say
Mooching
Smooching :3
rawr can i has ur identifiable personal data? UwU
And they literally did, there were multiple investigations and reports that Chinese admins got access to these US servers