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Re:The TikTok Hearings Inspired Little Faith in Social Media... by joenot443 on Saturday March 25, 2023 @04:33PM (#35307006)
There are plenty of very reasonable Yes/No questions which he made every possible effort not to answer, something I found very telling.

On more than one occasion he was asked if he supports the ongoing state-led genocide of the Uyghur population in Xinjiang and he repeatedly refused to give an answer.

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Re:The TikTok Hearings Inspired Little Faith in Social Media... by thefounder on Saturday March 25, 2023 @06:04PM (#35307926)
So what answer did you expect from him? Last time i've checked China was still a communist state
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Re:The TikTok Hearings Inspired Little Faith in Social Media... by joenot443 on Sunday March 26, 2023 @06:18AM (#35312876)
As he was quick to let us know, he is Singaporean and TikTok is a “global” company.

Obviously that’s nonsense and he’s most certainly in the pocket of the CCP, but it is fascinating seeing the deceit in real time.

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Re:The TikTok Hearings Inspired Little Faith in Social Media... by jessaustin on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @03:41PM (#35444896)
If he had just said the widely-known-outside-USA truth, that there is no "genocide" of Uighurs, lots of people would have gotten upset. He doesn't care one way or the other about our latest fundamentalist-Christian-inspired intended casus belli, so the less he says about it the better for his firm.
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