Genuine question… what does TikTok do from a privacy concern that FB isn’t already doing?
Because if it’s the same, this feels like US nationalism (and the US creating its own version of the Great Firewall like China does to us).
Because if it’s the same, this feels like US nationalism (and the US creating its own version of the Great Firewall like China does to us).
Don't they know US and China are opposing global super power with multiple region conflicts like Taiwan, Japan, and etc.?
That's an assumption, but I think for most people living in the West, that seems at least reasonable to me.
This is different from the way the US government uses Facebook, for example. It does not have power to boost or demote content, or request location data for people of interest. It can collect far narrower information about people with a warrant, and even then some data it cannot collect (eg. e2ee messaging data).
Let’s say a journalist has published some anti-Chinese material. Through TikTok, the Chinese know where he is precisely.
I’d imagine (but don’t know) that they do for the citizens of those countries, but wouldn’t, for example, give your list of Facebook groups to the Indian government if asked. The later sounds like a major incident for FB to me but if TikTok was asked by the Chinese government we might not even know.
You could be a foreign student living in America for years without becoming a citizen.
The government has more control over what kind of propaganda FB will spew. Almost none over TikTok.
I'm pretty sure they aren't able to push Chinese government fueled propaganda of any kind onto my timeline because I'd just scroll past it. If they can't brainwash me... and all they have on me is "he dislikes ___ and likes ___"... what's the big deal? Sounds like FUD
The US would have to subpoena Meta, and generally doesn’t because Meta would fight and win, DPRC just gets that info.