U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisition of Musical.ly

Re:U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisi... by quaquaqua1 on Friday November 01, 2019 @02:38PM (#21422291)

I do not deny any of the claims you have made about concentration camps, human rights abuses, corporate interests etc.

But I would really like to understand why there is a double standard in the minds of "my fellow Westerners".

Boeing, Raytheon, Booz Allen Hamilton, Halliburton, Lockheed, and the whole Washington aparatus in general have been (in)directly responsible for the deaths of millions of innocent people in the Middle East, yet I am still happy to use Instagram and Whatsapp and Youtube.

Similarly I will use TikTok concurrently while understanding that the Chinese government has locked 1 million Uighurs in a concentration camp. Surely, not every Chinese citizen voted for this idea. So we shouldn't make assumptions about what "Chinese people" are like

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Re:U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisi... by crematoria on Friday November 01, 2019 @04:53PM (#21423589)

Nobody is stereotyping the Chinese people!

Google and Apple have publicly stood up against the US government, and the US doesn't (publicly and legally, at least) meddle with companies to anywhere near the same extent as China.

When I support Google, I support Google alone, but when I support Tencent, it feels a little like I'm supporting the Chinese government, too.

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Re:U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisi... by guuguuguu on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @06:49PM (#21458205)

Imagine being this native.

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Re:U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisi... by CharlesColeman on Friday November 01, 2019 @03:18PM (#21422680)

> So we shouldn't make assumptions about what "Chinese people" are like

Again, no one is condemning the Chinese people here.

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