Except FB and Twitter sell their data to the highest bidder. If China wanted American’s data, they can just buy it.
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Tedesche@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoSeems like the most honest answer so far. The U.S. doesn’t trust the CCP with its citizens’ data. No surprise there.
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Tedesche@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Good point. Seems like another issue of concern. As usual, the issue seems to be data privacy laws overall.
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
It is, but the relevance to the discussion is that China getting american’s data isn’t the reason for the ban. Nor is China influencing Americans because they tend to derank politically spicy videos. If China was controlling the algo to make the US look bad, videos tagged BLM wouldn’t have been deranked.
Tedesche@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It depends on the manner in which said “politically spicy videos” are being censored. If it’s being done in a manner that promotes Chinese narratives while demoting American narratives, that’s an entirely legitimate concern for the U.S. and I don’t really see why not demoting BLM videos is not in the CCP’s interest; videos that make America seem racist seems entirely in the interest of an Anti-American country.
I also don’t see why hiring former American intelligence operatives demonstrates a pro-American stance, as their motivations for doing so could be to learn about American intelligence-gathering methods while promoting Chinese interests.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Hard to believe this post is in good faith. This ban has been discussed at least for like 4 years now
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Please read my reply to the comment, it’s not about data ownership, it’s about weaponizing algorithms.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Just like meta and shitter are doing.
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Companies weaponizing algorithms for profit is different than governments weaponizing algorithms for all sorts of far worse reasons.
If you can’t see that, you’re a bloody idiot.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You don’t think meta and xhitter are weaponizing algorithms for Republicans? They might not be the whole government, but they are now in power after coordinating their hate filled messaging and misinformation.