So the Chinese government is spying on me, I’m literally never going to China, plus they have backdoor access to like every cheap security camera on the planet.
It’s a better position than giving all my info to one of the u.s. companies where it has a real effect on me, especially now.
China is half a world away and isn’t directly involved in my day to day. The harms that China can do to me are significantly less than those American businesses.
It’s not about trust, it’s about accurate threat modeling.
This is the correct take. Anyone who paid the least amount of attention to Snowden’s revelations know that the USA harvests absolutely everything online. Americans have more to fear from their info being misused by their own government and the corporations that own it than by the Chinese. The push to ban TikTok is just an attempt to cut out the spying competition. And jingoistic Sinophobia.
I find it amusing that Americans trust Chinese social media over American businesses.
So the Chinese government is spying on me, I’m literally never going to China, plus they have backdoor access to like every cheap security camera on the planet.
It’s a better position than giving all my info to one of the u.s. companies where it has a real effect on me, especially now.
I think it’s more of a general apathy towards privacy than it is trusting any particular organization
Yeah, the people on TikTok (or RedNote) aren’t really the ones concerned about big corporations on anything but an aesthetic level.
China is half a world away and isn’t directly involved in my day to day. The harms that China can do to me are significantly less than those American businesses.
It’s not about trust, it’s about accurate threat modeling.
This is the correct take. Anyone who paid the least amount of attention to Snowden’s revelations know that the USA harvests absolutely everything online. Americans have more to fear from their info being misused by their own government and the corporations that own it than by the Chinese. The push to ban TikTok is just an attempt to cut out the spying competition. And jingoistic Sinophobia.