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Government Surveillance on Chinese vs US made phones
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That's kind of my theory about how TikTok was. It wasn't subjected to US censorship and interests, only Chinese, so there was sort of a window where Americans could actually organize on it. Obviously that couldn't stand once authority figured that out. Hence, the sudden cows being had over TikTok being owned by China.
TikTok's whole purpose is mass data-harvesting of its users. An app designed to do that while being owned by foreign nation is a valid concern to point out. Of course, the US doesn't actually care about anyone's privacy, they just want the data for themselves. Hence wanting a sale to a US company rather than going after the actual data collection
There was disinformation and spying being used gather Intel and push disinformation. That's why Biden wanted it gone. Trump was the one who decided he could use it for the same reasons as the Chinese.
Of course. Of. Course.
What Biden actually wanted was to control the narrative about Gaza so that his support for Israel’s genocide wouldn’t cost him the election. Unlike US corporate media—including social media—TikTok wasn’t censoring the truth.