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Re:TikTok Stunt Motivates Lawmakers to Take on the App by tivert on Friday March 08, 2024 @10:11AM (#39641734)
> Focusing on the nationality is a red herring - a US-based company can be just as adversarial as a foreign one.

Come on, you can't be serious. Even considered at a pretty abstract and uninformed level, it's clear even the most "adversarial" domestic company would not go places an adversarial foreign company would.

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Re:TikTok Stunt Motivates Lawmakers to Take on the App by chimeracoder on Friday March 08, 2024 @10:15AM (#39641760)
> Even considered at a pretty abstract and uninformed level, it's clear even the most "adversarial" domestic company would not go places an adversarial foreign company would.

Between TikTok and Facebook, one has already gone demonstrably further than the other, and it's not TikTok.

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Re:TikTok Stunt Motivates Lawmakers to Take on the App by tivert on Friday March 08, 2024 @10:23AM (#39641851)
> Between TikTok and Facebook, one has already gone demonstrably further than the other, and it's not TikTok.

This is geopolitics, not criminal law. It's not about what was done, but about what could be done.

Whatever specific past actions of Facebook or TikTok that you're vaguely gesturing at don't matter.

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