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Facebook's egregious behavior (Cambridge analytica) and their most extreme of all data collection makes TikTok look look like nothing.
TikTok has been investigated 20 times the rest and little bad behavior was found -- assuming you accept what's done today as acceptable, which I don't.
People hate TikTok because of trumped up stories in the media.
Notice that NOT ONE SPECIFIC ACCUSATION has been lodged against the company.
Now I sound like I'm defending them. Just the opposite -- condemning the bullshit and racist stories.
Downvote me all you want, but I dare you to find one thing that TikTok does that's as bad as American companies. And post it here.
I mean that's all fair but the title says that it's a matter of national security because it's a Chinese owned company. Facebook is absolutely aggregious and could possibly also be considered a matter a national security (probably should be imo), but because it's an American company it's not immediately seen as a threat.
You're right. I see ALL data collection like this as a threat. Fb, IG, TT, Twitter, Google, Apple the works.
Facebook has been actually selling data to the Chinese government for a decade. Congress just keeps politely asking them to stop. But nobody wants to report on that.
Pointing out Chinese company's shady behavior isn't bullshit or racism. I work in security and we're currently having to take out most Chinese cameras since they've been found to regularly ping Chinese addresses and have backdoors built in. Chinese companies quickly become an extension of the CCP.
Saying it's only them is absolutely racist. Most social media corporations sell data. Including to the Chinese government. Go look at the "permissions" threads, Instagram, and the FB app require these days and tell me they aren't ripping every bit of data they can.
There's a big difference between hardening your security hardware supply line and accusing only the Chinese social media platform of taking data.