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Maggoty@lemmy.world 7 months agoNo that’s ByteDance’s direct ties. TikTok would be indirect. My intention is to get to the bottom of this but it’s constantly just unsourced accusations and conflations. Not to mention excuse after excuse for why we can’t just pass an American GDPR. Instead we have to instigate Red Scare 2.0 which is totally not sus.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 7 months ago
ByteDance is not just an indirect tie between TickTock and China, former employees have testified that the TikTok services are centralized in China. The offices in the USA operate like a shell company.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 7 months ago
No they haven’t. They said they sent head count and engagement data. That’s it.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Yintao “Roger” Yu said that the CCP had full “supreme access” to all data. SOURCE
Maggoty@lemmy.world 7 months ago
He left ByteDance 4 years before Project Texas. Even if that was happening then there’s no evidence it’s still happening. But also how is this any different than the US Government telling Facebook it has to share information?