Comment on Why is TikTok seen as privacy invading and bad, but Facebook is fine?

Meatballs@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Baku@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sure but this seems to be a thing in many countries, not just the US. I live in Australia, so both of them are involved with “foreign” governments. In fact, most of the social media people here use is owned by foreign companies

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  • CheshireSnake@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m in Asia. I can’t speak for everyone but the people I know distrust the CCP much more than the US government. Sure, the US is far from blameless, but at least over here the CCP has a much worse reputation. I guess that’s one factor.

    Another is more than a few people seem to think Meta is strictly a private company while tiktok is somehow being used/controlled by the Chinese government.

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  • azdle@news.idlestate.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For the purposes of data collection, the US basically isn’t foreign for AU: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

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