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Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
This is the natural progression.
They started hiring a bunch of natsec ghouls when Trump tried to ban them in 2020, and increased it under Biden when the dems jumped on the “tiktik is spying on you! Evil CCP is turning the youth into communists!” Bandwagon, and started algo boosting right-wing content under Trumo II.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
TikTok IS spying on you.
But it’s true that the evil CCP is no longer communist: just totalitarian crony capitalist.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
No more so than any other social media app, and as someone who lived in America at the time, China having my data was far less threatening than America having my data.
Tiktok duplicated their server infrastructure just for America so no American data would leave the country.
They hired a bunch of natsec ghouls and boosted what they wanted boosted and censored what they told them to censor since 2020. Tiktok isn’t Chinese propaganda, it’s American propaganda.
The CPC’s tendency to favor the working class over capital suggests otherwise; they’ve raised a billion people out of poverty, while India is a net exporter of food but still has children dying of hunger-related diseases. When a baby formula factory in China killed or sickened a dozen babies due to greed and gross negligence, they took the executives out back and shot them, and opened the market up to foreign imports. When the same thing happened in the US, nobody went to jail and the US didn’t even approve EU imports of formula because that would hurt the profits of the company that had just murdered literal babies.
I would never call China a utopia, but you have to actually understand a thing if you want to make meaningful criticisms of it.
QuoVadisHomines@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
The difference is China is making an attemt to improve things for most people and Western “democracies” have abandoned this.