benroyce, 1 month ago

@airwhale

"#china can buy our info, so why go after #tiktok"

is like

"i can get mugged on the street, so i'd rather invite the mugger into my house and get into my bed with them"

the strange tale of people on mastodon of all places, posturing and contorting for tiktok, is bizarre

if in the name of privacy you wind up defending the likes of tiktok, you took a wrong turn somewhere

you want to defend privacy:

you want to argue from principles:

you attack tiktok and #facebook

#tiktokban

airwhale, 1 month ago

@benroyce

My point was more a comment on the non-exsiting US regulations that allow Meta, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and their 745 "partners" to indiscriminately collect personal information and profiles on all of us.

I don't trust US companies any more than I do ByteDance, so that's not the issue. It's about political posturing pretending to do something about a privacy problem while completely ignoring companies that are much closer. A powerful punch in the air...

benroyce, 1 month ago

@airwhale

the us govt is a rancid corrupt cesspool

but the us govt is not the totalitarian human rights destroying nightmare that is the chinese govt

anyone who remotely cares about privacy is not happy about the govt of china with detailed access to anyone anywhere through tiktok

the problem is this "perfect is the enemy of good" argument angle: that because we don't get perfect privacy protection in the usa, we mock the govt going after radioactive slime like tiktok

no, we celebrate it