More Tiktok controversy

[frcc]

https://www.rt.com/news/610919-ameri...ied-china-cia/

[pl]

Just mainstream doing it's... whatever it is. Nothing really to see here.

[frcc]

Originally Posted by pl

Just mainstream doing it's... whatever it is. Nothing really to see here.

[jmccue]

Looks like the ban will remain in place:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyng762q4eo

[frcc]

There must be something behind the current "bru ha ha". Or maybe we all have too much time on our hands?

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/evit...-communist-app

[blackhole]

RT, BBC and Fox news...?

Anyway, I don't know what tiktok is, but this looks like typical fearmongering over Chinese products/platforms, mostly likely coming from those with an agenda. Singling out one website, which is described as "...a Chinese short-form video-hosting service ... one of the world's most popular social media platforms...", due to it's Chinese origins, is disingenuous, when one considers the huge amount of consumer electronics manufactured in China. Lenovo, for example, is a Chinese company - and even US, Taiwanese and South Korean companies, for example, get their devices manufactured in China to make massive savings on labour costs.

[yeti]

But, but, but if the good ones at home spy at you "to protect you", that sure is a good thing. :-Þ

Everyone is spying on you, just be a nice data cattle and don't complain!

Once one German leader dared to say the quiet part loud:
(use a babel fish if needed)

TL;DR: Hello, data cattle!

"Wir Europäer sind dafür bekannt, dass wir gerne Dinge verbieten. Das Prinzip der Datensparsamkeit, wie wir es vor vielen Jahren hatten, kann heute nicht die generelle Leitschnur sein für die Entwicklung neuer Produkte."

"Entwickeln Sie ein positives Verhältnis zu Daten und kein restriktives. Freuen Sie sich, wenn wir mehr wissen."

The absence of comments on this was even more shocking than her (accidental?) honesty!