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Americans when Canadians say they'd prefer TikTok spying vs an American company:
but seriously. I want no one to have my data, but if someone HAD to have it, I would prefer TikTok over anything from Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, etc..
My country wont export me to China if I post something negative or pirate something. My country will export me to the US if they come banging on my door. I am quite literally safer letting China have a bit of my data.
This is the worst take I've ever heard. The concerns are "capitalist targeted advertising" vs "a foreign power abusing American user data to target and push agendas on it's people".
Is lemmygrad leaking??
I'm not a lemmygrad user. I'm simply stating facts?
There's literally many recent news articles of Canadians getting in legal trouble from American companies because of the things they posted or things they downloaded.
The Canadian government isn't handing me over to China or allowing China to come get me.
My comment is not even pro China. I'm just saying that nothing I say or do will allow China to put me in jail. Can't say the same about America.
You should learn to read. I would prefer no one get my data, but it's statistically safer for me for China to get it over an American company. However, no one should get it. Fuck shit American companies, fuck shit Chinese companies.
This is actually what I wanted to say to a lot of people. During peace times, allowing a foreign adversary stealing your data is a lot less damaging to your personal freedoms than your own government stealing your data. We need to be wary every time when our own government tries to tries to introduces surveillance laws under the disguise of "national security".
"Peace times" doesn't mean much when wars are waged through propagandizing a countries population to promote civil unrest. Russia was doing this for years and look how it changed the country completely in 2016. I'm certain china will be doing the same. I think people vastly underestimate the value of this data, and what a foreign power can do with it. They can subtly shape the future of a country to damage it far worse than some proxy war will.
I'm glad that you brought up the problem of foreign propaganda. I firmly believe the government shouldn't be there to tell me what kind of views I can and cannot see. Some exceptions already exist such as blatant calls for violence which we already have clear guidelines on. Other than that, government is in no place to regulate speech. What's the point of beating Russia and China when we become just like them?
For me America is the foreign power. One that keeps murdeing people in my corner of the world.
You're about half right. How about just not giving the foreign adversary your data at all?
You don't NEED TikTok. Nobody does, it's fucking garbage artificial ADD fuel. Everyone should get rid of it.
Well I don't use TikTok and couldn't care less if they get banned. If you actually read the bills that's getting passed like the RESTRICT act in the US you'd realize it's not about banning TikTok and it has numerous vague and concerning clauses that infringes on your privacy. My opinion is always have better privacy laws and enforce it equally on all companies. When my government blatantly tries to steal more of my data and pretend they're actually doing me a favor I'd rather the foreign adversary have it for free.
Well I agree with everything you said there, except for the last 9 words of it.
To each their own. Ideally no company should have those data that can be used for spying by any government. But if I have to choose, I personally fear government overreach more than anything else. We can agree to disagree here.
Peace time?! China is waging a cold war against Western democracies!
so war hasn't broken out, what's your point? Last time I checked China still isn't able to send agents to my house to arrest me, but folks here are getting misreported for CSAM to the feds by google scanning their pictures without consent.
So are the same Western democracies... nearly half of the US is too stupid to understand how voting for an orange Mussolini wannabe was a horrible idea. There's undeniable proof that the CIA interfered with the Brazilian government between 2016 and 2020. Italy is once again on the brink of Fascism.
Yep no need to worry about china in Canada! You're so safe there!
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/there-may-be-more-chinese-police-stations-canada-minister-says-2023-05-14/
How is "getting in trouble with American companies" (i.e. getting banned from a platform for breaking their rules) worse than a foreign power trying to influence a countries people? You're not going to jail for posting dumb bullshit lol
US is the foreign power that has the most influence on people in Canada dummy.
No, the US is the foreign power who's culture has the biggest influence on people in Canada, there's no tangible reason to believe that big US tech companies are feeding your data to the US government and taking orders on how to influence it's people. Tech companies in the US have shown time and time again that they have no interest in working with the US government (a problem of itself) and every piece of user data handed over has been through a court order.
TikTok has failed numerous global security audits and there's reason to believe that they're tied directly to the Chinese government and being used by the Chinese government to influence foreign citizens via misinformation and the removal of "anti-Chinese" material.
Yeah yeah, both are bad, sure, but one is worse and it's direct Chinese government influence. Anyone that says otherwise is a troll or needs to seriously practice some basic critical thinking skills.
US is the foreign power whose culture, money, media companies, and oligarchs have the biggest influence on Canada. This is the country that constantly meddles in Canadian politics. Meanwhile, we know perfectly well after Snowden leaks that US companies very much do work with US government, and one has to be an utter ignoramus to claim otherwise.
Meanwhile, numerous audits have shown that the type of data TikTok collects is exactly the same as any other major social media platform. Stop spreading misinformation here.
Thinking that there is any equivalence between the amount of influence US and China have on Canada is sheer idiocy, and your woefully misinformed comment inadvertently highlights the problem. You should take your own advice and practice some critical thinking skill as not to make a 🤡 of yourself in public in the future.
As I previously said, this was data they were ordered to hand over, which is obviously problematic, but since then E2EE has been implemented all over big tech while they've fought against backdoor access. While this is obviously self-serving and only because of global backlash, it proves that these tech companies have no interest in working for the US government. Your statements are surface level depth and show a real lack of understanding on this subject.
Stop sliding the conversation. I never said they collected more data, I said they've failed security audits and there is reason to believe they are willingly handing it over the Chinese government and taking direction from the Chinese government.
Lol again, as I said, you're mistaking culture influence for foreign government influence.
You're continuously sliding the conversation into trying to make it sound like I feel like US tech has no issues while being critical of Chinese tech. I am critical of both, however I'm not an "utter ignoramus" lmao and I can recognize how fucking stupid of a statement "I prefer China to have my data" is.
I'm gunna go with Chinese propaganda troll for you!
Edit: Hahaha called it. Check out this dude's posts, it's all Chinese and anti-west propaganda.
The only one who's showing genuine lack of understanding on this subject is the one who thinks that all of this magically stopped. The wiretapping that Snowden reported on was also illegal at the time, and thinking that it stopped takes an incredible amount of naivete.
Nobody is sidelining the conversation, I'm just pointing out that TikTok doesn't actually do anything out of the ordinary. Meanwhile, there is zero evidence for your claim that TikTok takes direction from Chinese government. In fact, it's registered in Singapore, which you evidently weren't aware off.
No I'm not. US has both cultural and government influence, and the fact that you don't understand that is absolutely hilarious.
You have shown evidence beyond doubt that you are an ignoramus and having no actual argument to make you're just doing mud slinging at this point. 🤣
Imagine not being able to recognize that the government that has power over you having your data is far worse. This demonstrates monumental levels of stupidity.
Imagine being a troll for the US empire. What an utter clown you are.
Yeeaah not looking to discuss anything further with employees of troll farms actually, feel free keep hitting me with downvotes from your alt accounts though
Imagine being so detached from reality to think that anybody who disagrees with you is working for a troll farm. Not being able to even consider that what you said is just dumb and that's why you're getting downvoted is really just a cherry on top. Looks like we have a copy of your employee handbook here:
Who said about getting banned?
If I pirate Photoshop, Adobe could come for me if they really wanted to. Canada doesn't care about piracy, you don't need to use a VPN here, but if the American company Adobe really wanted at me, Canada would not stop them.
If I pirated some Chinese software ~~there~~ their government couldn't do shit to me.
You know geohot, the guy sued by Sony for hacking the ps3? He was American, but that doesn't change much. If he was Canadian, he would've been fucked just the same. Now if I hacked a Chinese console to enable piracy, literally nothing would happen to me.
If I made a threat on the Presidents life, I would be watched and potentially have American feds knocking on my door. If I threatened China, I would get upvotes and people would laugh.
You're not really understanding what I'm saying. I'm assuming you're American? The country where pretty much every massive company operates from? Well, the rest of the world hates that nearly everything we do is funneled back into the US.
Use Windows? MacOS? Android? iOS? Gmail? Outlook? Yahoo? Microsoft Office? Facebook? Instagram? Reddit?.. the list goes on.
Now imagine if 95% of your data was funneled into a different country. I'm sure you'd hate it. Especially with the state of American politics right now. Your country is dangerous.
I'm not American, I'm Canadian, and I never said that I'm cool with their government's recent developments, but that doesn't mean the Chinese government collecting and using your data to push it's agenda on foreign citizens is better, that's absolutely insane.
And your argument is that you want to freely and openly hack proprietary software and make threats on the US president's life? Lol what the fuck.
Please tell me where China is pushing their agenda on me? My TikTok is full of American and Canadian creators, talking about technology, science, animals, and comedy. Also a bit of food.
That's also not my argument, but congrats on missing the point.
If you don't understand what I'm saying, that's on you. I'm not having a back and forth about this any longer, I escaped Reddit because of that. You can go back there if you want to argue and mix words with others. I'm not having that.
When they kidnap your fucking neighbours and hold them for fucking extortion of your fucking state, that is China pushing their fucking agenda on you, for fucking fuck's sake.
When they religiously persecute CANADIAN CITIZENS in fucking CANADIAN TERRITORY, that's China pushing their agenda on you.
You're unhinged, cannot stay on topic, and your entire profile is trolling.
I am done responding to you for other users sake. They didn't come to lemmy to hear people argue back and forth.
Have a day.
Tanky can't keep feigning ignorance of all the bad shit china does and gives up lmaoooo. Go back to shilling for Pooh Bear on Reddit.
I mean they literally censor and ban creators for anything they deem to be anti-Chinese and then turn around and deny it ever happens, but sure, let's use your personal anecdotal evidence to make our opinions here.
Mix words? I took direct quotes from your comment lol. Glad you left Reddit because you weren't clear enough though I guess
Don't waste your time, the guy is a troll. Just look at the comment history.
Look at YOUR comment history across multiple platforms comrade
Yeah look at it and educate yourself so you don't sound like a clown in the future.
Lol. Your mirror is need of that comment