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Re:TikTok Inc. vs. U.S. Department of Commerce by biscottigelato on Monday August 24, 2020 @02:23PM (#24263701)
We give so much more slack when it's a company that supports a totalitarian regime.

When it's Facebook which is subject to scrutiny of many major democratic governments and press, we gives it no slack.

Ironic and funny.

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Re:TikTok Inc. vs. U.S. Department of Commerce by mullingitover on Monday August 24, 2020 @02:57PM (#24264096)
Who is this 'we' we're talking about? Clearly the US government gives Facebook all of the slack (arguably since Facebook offers the US intelligence services a panopticon). The only people not giving Facebook slack are activists.

And Tiktok, despite their US arm being a US company, essentially is facing the execution of their business at the hands of the US government unless they do a fire sale under duress.

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Re:TikTok Inc. vs. U.S. Department of Commerce by bluesign on Monday August 24, 2020 @02:31PM (#24263792)
Facebook has very bad track record with privacy and abusing use data, tbh they are getting what they deserve.

We are not giving a slack to a company that supports a totalitarian regime, if you see this as support, you can say that Apple is supporting Chinese totalitarian regime too.

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Re:TikTok Inc. vs. U.S. Department of Commerce by benrbray on Monday August 24, 2020 @02:36PM (#24263841)
> if you see this as support, you can say that Apple is supporting Chinese totalitarian regime too.

sure, I'm ok with that

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Re:TikTok Inc. vs. U.S. Department of Commerce by ksk on Monday August 24, 2020 @02:32PM (#24263803)
Well, FB is disliked more because many well-meaning left leaning folks bought the "trump won because putin bought FB ads" argument.
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