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by frngd 2149 days ago
CEO of bytedance is not a member of CCP
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leesalminen 2149 days ago
“ByteDance's CEO Zhang Yiming did what he had to do to protect himself and his company, releasing a letter of apology that signaled loyalty to Xi Jinping's hard-line agenda.” [0]

Seems close enough to me.

[0] https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/TikTok-risks-becoming-new-fr...

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DarthGhandi 2149 days ago
> Seems close enough to me

And this is the problem, you can shift goalposts on the truth as you see fit no matter how repeatedly you are proven wrong.

Let's take a comparison:

> Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg endured an hours-long grilling by dozens of U.S. senators Tuesday during which he repeatedly apologized

Is Zuckerberg now a card-carrying member of the standing government? Is he an agent of the state? Of course not. He's protecting his business.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/2018/04/1...

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nouveaux 2149 days ago
Mark Zuckerberg criticized the US Government's handling of Covid[1]. Do you believe ByteDance's CEO Zhang Yiming would do the same or anything similar?

[1]https://deadline.com/2020/07/mark-zuckerberg-anthony-fauci-c...

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leesalminen 2149 days ago
I never heard of Zuckerberg’s letter to Trump pledging allegiance to his party’s agenda. Maybe I’m missing something here?
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