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Re:TikTok Parent ByteDance Sees Losses Swell in Push for Growth by satao on Thursday October 06, 2022 @02:23PM (#33112002)
as someone living outside the US I can tell you that to us you're all the same.
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Re:TikTok Parent ByteDance Sees Losses Swell in Push for Growth by cheriot on Thursday October 06, 2022 @03:27PM (#33112826)
Ironically, there's laws restricting US Gov access to data in the US, but no such restrictions on hacking foreign networks.
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Re:TikTok Parent ByteDance Sees Losses Swell in Push for Growth by pb7 on Thursday October 06, 2022 @02:32PM (#33112125)
That's your personal opinion. You don't speak for the ~7.7B people not in the US.
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Re:TikTok Parent ByteDance Sees Losses Swell in Push for Growth by anm89 on Thursday October 06, 2022 @02:56PM (#33112434)
As is your opinion that it isn't
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Re:TikTok Parent ByteDance Sees Losses Swell in Push for Growth by pb7 on Thursday October 06, 2022 @02:59PM (#33112483)
I didn't claim to speak for billions of people.
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Re:TikTok Parent ByteDance Sees Losses Swell in Push for Growth by dylan604 on Thursday October 06, 2022 @03:43PM (#33113058)
"You don't speak for the ~7.7B people not in the US."

vs

"You don't speak for me"

One of those comments is speaking for a lot more people

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Re:TikTok Parent ByteDance Sees Losses Swell in Push for Growth by ryantgtg on Thursday October 06, 2022 @04:07PM (#33113373)
Where did you get "you don't speak for me"?

It's "I can tell you that to us you're all the same" vs "You don't speak for the ~7.7B people not in the US."

One person is trying to speak for 7.7B and the other is advising against that.

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Re:TikTok Parent ByteDance Sees Losses Swell in Push for Growth by dylan604 on Thursday October 06, 2022 @06:53PM (#33115178)
>Where did you get "you don't speak for me"?

It was an example of how to state unambiguously who was/was not being spoken for to contrast with the other statement. Maybe because I put it in quotes led you to think I was quoting someone, but it looked odd without to me.

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Re:TikTok Parent ByteDance Sees Losses Swell in Push for Growth by djanlermats2020 on Thursday October 06, 2022 @04:02PM (#33113308)
No it isn't, both are correct statements of fact.
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Re:TikTok Parent ByteDance Sees Losses Swell in Push for Growth by anm89 on Thursday October 06, 2022 @06:48PM (#33115119)
you are making the same implicit claim and arguing insignificant semantics.
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Re:TikTok Parent ByteDance Sees Losses Swell in Push for Growth by exolymph on Thursday October 06, 2022 @04:25PM (#33113606)
you're entitled to your opinion, but for those of us living inside the US, they are not at all the same
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Re:TikTok Parent ByteDance Sees Losses Swell in Push for Growth by neither_color on Thursday October 06, 2022 @05:22PM (#33114269)
When the police start knocking on my door inviting me to have tea because of something I posted on twitter I'll take your comment seriously(https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2021/10/translation-spilling-t...).

Our free speech and privacy protections are not only stronger than China's, they're arguably stronger than Europe's too. There are some trade offs of course since Europe has GDPR and the right to be forgotten.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/23/technology/germany-intern...

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/police-arresting-nine-peo...

The reason China's situation is worse is because Europeans and Americans can and do protest this. It is not normalized and accepted. If you feel that America goes too far in how it exports its perceived brand of authoritarian, you should know that China is just getting started: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/oct/3/report-detai...

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