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Re:Tik Tok is a national security threat by lancesells on Monday September 19, 2022 @06:02PM (#32904706)
> Why should I, a US citizen who has no business need to travel to China currently, worry about the CCP's authoritarianism more than the US govts?

It's the long cultural game that is probably being played that might or should have you worried. It's been happening for 10-15 years to US social media companies by outside and inside forces and it seems to have become a detriment to society in certain ways. Now think of a Facebook or Instagram that's directed by a (more) authoritative government against a culture that it's in opposition to. What does that look like in 20 years?

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Re:Tik Tok is a national security threat by lancesells on Monday September 19, 2022 @06:06PM (#32904760)
Edit: And I think we should all be very worried about Google, Facebook, etc. These domestic corporations are too big to have any morals. The employees might but the machine is just a machine.
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