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Re:Facebook readies global launch of its TikTok competitor by dfxm12 on Thursday July 16, 2020 @10:14AM (#23859177)
Facebook is not your country. You have zero say in who is in charge at Facebook or what Facebook does with your data. Even if they aren't compelled to share your data with any government, history has shown that they will sell it, not just to the highest bidder, but likely many times over. History has also shown that they will spend little effort to go after developers who misuse this data according to their TOS.

I'm not saying this is worse than TikTok, but it is certainly not better.

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Re:Facebook readies global launch of its TikTok competitor by andreilys on Thursday July 16, 2020 @10:21AM (#23859246)
One company wants to keep advertisers happy. The other wants to keep the CCP happy.

With those incentive structures how can you even posit that the two are comparable?

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Re:Facebook readies global launch of its TikTok competitor by amINeolib on Thursday July 16, 2020 @10:15AM (#23859188)
We've actually seen Facebook use their data for Political purposes and profiting.

They are about as Anti US as any country.

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