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by heretogetout 1458 days ago
If China really is as bad as all that (and I think it probably is) why are we wasting any time or energy on TikTok? It'd be a lot more effective to sanction China over those human rights abuses than to ban some toy app.
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That sounds good too. It does not need to be either/or.

However, sanctioning them won't protect the millions (billions?) of international people who are being profiled though. It's a lot easier to identify, blackmail, impersonate, predict, locate, and anything else a government body might want to do to someone when you have all this information.

I hope this can bring in some extra context.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-st...

Paywall-less link: https://archive.ph/D7Dao

That does make sense. Of course it's the result of lobbying and not some high-minded concern about privacy or espionage.