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LookAtThatBacon t1_jcddnrk wrote

As they should.

But I’m guessing shills for China are going to invoke the “whataboutism” distraction tactic again by bringing up American social media companies collecting data on its own citizens, which is a bad thing, for the record, just a false equivalence because in no way is it the same as a hostile nation collecting data from the citizens of their enemy.

Can you imagine if Russia’s VK had penetrated the US the same way TikTok has? You would have to be nuts to still use social media run by a hostile nation.

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hatrickstar t1_jck8u2q wrote

You're aware that Facebook sells our data to Chinese companies right? Like they openly do this.

If Tik Tok was a Meta company, China would still be getting the data....just with a price tag attached, and we still couldn't opt out do anything about.

So you're right...the American companies are worse because if China is a hostile nation then these American companies are committing Treason in these well-documented and undisputed sales of American user data to Chinese companies.

Maybe we do need to look at the American companies for a minute...

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_angryguy_ t1_jcdwygj wrote

I'll bite, in which a way is china a hostile nation? They do not operate anywhere near as hostile as the US has with the CIA or our industrial war complex. You are buying into state department propaganda. Honestly this move seems to be more about using the state apparatus to remove foreign competition in the tech space and to consolidate it into our in house monopolies. Notice how this is now a discussion of selling assets. I wish they were being honest but hey these are the same people who lied about nukes in Iraq.

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Proregressive t1_jce9n8p wrote

Reddit is a US nationalist platform. It doesn't matter if foreigners are hurt and the US government should always have a monopoly of power over everything, including its citizens. It's horseshoe theory with Chinese uber nationalists and Reddit being the same people.

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gizmozed t1_jcfbd8f wrote

"In which way is China a hostile nation?"

You are kidding me, right?

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_angryguy_ t1_jcfdwwd wrote

No, please enlighten me. Is China flaunting war ships and planes around the gulf of Mexico to check the power balance of our own Monroe Doctrine? Is china doubling their military budget right now and creating pacts with our surrounding countries to curtail our own presence in our own waters? The only way that I see them as opposition is that they don't play by the rules that our capitalist oligarchs want, and they are actively capturing the world market with their economic philosophy that opposes our own. They have not shown to be a militaristic nor hostile nation(US calling the kettle black). They are just market competition that we want to snuff out.

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