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Re:TikTok hits 1.5B downloads, outperforming Instagram by partiallypro on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @12:47PM (#21575816)
The US isn't using that data to put Muslims into concentration camps and killing them to take their organs, or marching troops into Hong Kong.
Re:TikTok hits 1.5B downloads, outperforming Instagram by throw964563 on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @02:03PM (#21576859)
I wouldn’t be so sure,

> In 2014, former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden said in a public debate, “We kill people based on metadata.”

> According to multiple reports and leaks, death-by-metadata could be triggered, without even knowing the target’s name, if too many derogatory checks appear on their profile. “Armed military aged males” exhibiting suspicious behavior in the wrong place can become targets, as can someone “seen to be giving out orders.” Such mathematics-based assassinations have come to be known as “signature strikes.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/how-...

Re:TikTok hits 1.5B downloads, outperforming Instagram by response777 on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @01:10PM (#21576114)
As a programmer, I am seriously curious about how these silly videos can help PRC "put Muslims into concentration camps", "take their organs" or "march troops into Hong Kong"
Re:TikTok hits 1.5B downloads, outperforming Instagram by xiphias2 on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @01:09PM (#21576108)
You’re right about the concentration camps, but regarding Hong Kong US has done and is doing worse things. Sadly this is how empires work.