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Re:TikTok to pull out of Hong Kong by fiblye on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @03:48AM (#23756700)
My worry is that the definition of "Chinese users" will be expanded. Right now the assumption is that it's for Chinese citizens, but of course, anyone who registered an account while in China is also thrown in that pile. I have to wonder if this will someday include Chinese citizens who've been living abroad and created accounts while outside of China, people with former Chinese citizenship who've taken another country's citizenship, their children, and so on.

Wechat's surveillance is pushing the idea of what should be monitored by China. It's a real possibility that this will expand into foreign companies with operations in China.

Re:TikTok to pull out of Hong Kong by dathinab on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @08:42AM (#23758580)
> people with former Chinese citizenship who've taken another country's citizenship, their children, and so on.

How the CPP doesn't accept peopel giving up Chinese citizenship and how it affects children of affected people is a known problem.

Re:TikTok to pull out of Hong Kong by toxik on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @10:53AM (#23759865)
That seems like a valid worry, however, it would be cause for such enormous outrage that I think it’s a route Beijing will never take. Tiktok is a good microcosm of this, it’s already stirring outrage and it’s not even monitoring more than any other surveillanceware (Facebook, Instagram, etc).
Re:TikTok to pull out of Hong Kong by bitxbitxbitcoin on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @11:13AM (#23760078)
China trying to exert its pressures on Chinese citizens abroad has already been happening to not that much outrage in Australia[1] and the United States.[2]

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-31/chinese-government-ac... [2]https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/university-of-min...