Banning TikTok Won’t Keep Your Data Safe
foreignpolicy.com
Pompous billionaires, authoritarian regimes, and opaque oligarchs are hoarding our data. Only an alternative online ecosystem will stop them.
  • winterayars@sh.itjust.works
    103·
    2 months ago

    Yet nobody cares about US companies like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube manipulating public opinion with their algorithms.

    • Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      This isnt the point.

      An adverserial nation shouldnt be able to influence public opinion like that.

      We all understand that those companies do nefarious things. Imo its quite a bit different when its a whole ass country purposefully manipulating public opinion and they dont like the united states.

      • winterayars@sh.itjust.works
        21·
        2 months ago

        I get it, i don’t want to live in China but i don’t want to live in whatever Elon Musk has planned for the US, either, and his wealth gives him undue influence over… pretty much everything. You’re not convincing me you’ve got a consistent take here if you’re cool with Twitter but not TikTok.

      • would_be_appreciated@lemmy.mlEnglish
        51·
        2 months ago

        Seems bizarre that people are okay with public opinion being explicitly manipulated by a very small group of people with very little overlapping interest with the public, but not okay with public opinion being explicitly manipulated by a very small group of people with very little overlapping interest with the public from a foreign country.

        • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
          43·
          2 months ago

          Not really. One can be dealt with if needs be, since they’re US companies. The other can’t because it’s the Chinese government.