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> Facebook selling your data to advertisers is annoying.

Facebook selling your data to advertisers is also horrifying. American "businesses" accept foreign investments and money all the time. Nothing stops those same countries from buying data from Facebook. The only difference between that and TikTok is that money is exchanged. It's just as horrifying.

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Unlike the CCP, Facebook isn't literally harvesting organs [2] or implanting intelligence assets [3]. Facebook shouldn't be reckless with user data, but when it's users start getting black bagged and having their vital organs removed, then we can compare the two.

Mind you, all the major foreign companies are already banned in China so they can't possibly be involved.

[2] - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-forcefully-harvests...

[3] - https://thediplomat.com/2020/09/two-recent-alleged-episodes-...

> Facebook shouldn't be reckless with user data, but when it's users start getting black bagged and having their vital organs removed, then we can compare the two.

TikTok's association with CCP is horrifying, yes.

Facebook's hands aren't clean either.

There’s levels of clean.

No they just interfer with local politics via lobbying, i.e. buying politicians, i.e foreign agents.

Facebook isn't selling your data. They're selling access to you.

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