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Re:How TikTok and ByteDance could be using – and abusing – u... by chenzhekl on Sunday August 09, 2020 @11:19AM (#24100125)
As a Chinese, I'm really tired of seeing such news being pushed to the frontpage of HN. Sure, the data big companies are collecting nowadays are concerning. But it's not specific to Chinese companies. Well, people may say they don't trust the Chinese government. How is the US government better? Has Snowden been forgotten already?

Endlessly selective criticism towards China make us think if people from other countries are just inclined to think that the CCP is evil, and so is China. As a result, everything that is connected to China is (especially) bad.

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Re:How TikTok and ByteDance could be using – and abusing – u... by cochne on Sunday August 09, 2020 @11:30AM (#24100215)
As an American I somewhat agree with your sentiment in that Google is probably just as bad as ByteDance. However, I think we see about the same amount of flak against Google on this website so I don’t agree with your point about it being specific to China.

Also, I believe the CCP is certainly evil based on reports of numerous human rights violations. The USA is also on the whole evil, but I would say to a much lesser degree.

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Re:How TikTok and ByteDance could be using – and abusing – u... by chillacy on Sunday August 09, 2020 @02:05PM (#24101541)
US attitudes towards China are at all time lows [1].

It doesn't seem as bad as the 1960's and the USSR, but I'm fearing that the rhetoric continues to get more polarizing until we're at "better dead than red".

Don't think China doesn't do this as well either, state media in China has been seeding anti-US sentiment for awhile.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/04/21/u-s-views-of-c...

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Re:How TikTok and ByteDance could be using – and abusing – u... by 0xdeadb00f on Sunday August 09, 2020 @05:41PM (#24103161)
> How is the US government better?

It isn't that much better, and I think most on this site would agree.

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