TikTok and WeChat: Curating and controlling global information flows

Re:TikTok and WeChat: Curating and controlling global inform... by readarticle on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @11:50AM (#24409579)

Somehow these social media giants from X would be allowed to collect crazy amount of data on their users, but Y’s would be deemed illegal.

Could unironically be answered “Yes, and?” in a rational discussion about geopolitical issues, especially one without a globalist (or specifically western) bent.

I’ve gone ahead and done that in response to the GP just now.

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Re:TikTok and WeChat: Curating and controlling global inform... by mola on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @02:26AM (#24417868)

Rational geopolitics usually lead to war. Because rationality, the kind you talk about, is a farce, a rationalizing, that hides the true motives. When these are not acknowledge you can't critic the actions on the correct terms. Thus these "rationality" usually spirals out of control.

Friendship, joint ideals empathy, are not strictly rational.

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Re:TikTok and WeChat: Curating and controlling global inform... by readarticle on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @02:56AM (#24418062)

Friendship, joint ideals, and empathy don’t exist at the international level without a third party security guarantor keeping the various sides down, see: the history of Europe pre 1945 (and post ~2030 or so).

You’re not coming to HN to look for a rational discussion of geopolitics, you’re looking for someone to agree with.

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