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I don't really understand how this is any different from any other social media platform besides the entity your data is being sent back to. Is the Chinese government really any worse than Google, Meta, etc.? I think if you really feel passionately about this specific instance, then you should also feel the same passion about any other social media platform that collects your data and does with it what they please.

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In theory, as a US citizen, I have some control over the government oversight of Google, Facebook, etc., probably much less over TikTok. So while I can feel angry and frustrated with what the Googles and FBs do, I also believe I have a little more power, whereas I feel a bit more powerless over TikTok.

It isn't. It's just fearmongering and deflection of a serious issue with datamining companies having free reign to act as unethically as they so desire onto the scary foreigners.

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