Comment on US claims TikTok collected user views on issues like abortion, gun control.

• chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  … as opposed to American Spyware? I’m no fan of any governments, including both Chinese and American (not fully anti government, just think all need drastic improvments) but while I understand calling it Spyware, the focus on Chinese feels a bit sinophobic. Facebook does bad spying work too, plus has run experiments on users live. Cambridge Analytica stole info for political means as well. Google, ISPs, and many other info sites collect and sell info on you, and many of them will submit info to governments when requested. X/Twitter is run by an egotistical MAGA idiot who is blocking stuff he doesn’t like but allowing Nazis to be broadcast to everyone.

  They should all be considered similarly problematic.

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    … as opposed to American Spyware?

    Yes, even as opposed to American spyware.

    It is both more invasive and more dangerous. Anybody who says otherwise is just ignorant. Probably intentionally so.

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