This forced sale of TikTok for national security is a farce because they were already forced to move their service to the US on an American-owned hosting provider, and they have already put people with a history of aligning with “American interests” into executive positions, like CEO Shou Zi Chew and vice president Michael Beckerman. I think the US “intelligence community” already has everything it needs to monitor and control TikTok.

[–] BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I have a geoIP alias on my firewall and can still see TikTok sending telemetry to a Chinese CDN.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 16 points 8 months ago

If so, then maybe the US “intelligence community” doesn’t actually see that as a problem, despite the cold war propaganda.

[–] redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't matter where the servers are located physically but who can access the data that's on them

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 27 points 8 months ago

They were physically relocated to the US so that the US can access the data, as people like Edward Snowden and Mark Klein have shown us. I’m sure the US knows precisely what data is and isn’t being sent to China.