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[-] davel@lemmy.ml 13 points 6 months ago

The national security angle is a farce because ByteDance was already forced to move their service to the US on an American-owned hosting provider, and they have already put people with a history of aligning with “American interests” into executive positions, like CEO Shou Zi Chew and vice president Michael Beckerman, and American oligarchs are invested in it. I think the US “intelligence community” already has everything it needs to monitor and control TikTok.

[-] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net -2 points 6 months ago

I never understood what it would help to have the data on a US server. It's not that difficult to access it there from China. I access my server in Germany via SSH from Korea.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 months ago

What can ByteDance access that China couldn't just buy from Alphabet or Meta or some other tech company?

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