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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And it’s not like they can’t maintain use of the thing while not being owners. Come on. Like there’s some magic rule if a company’s not owned by China, it can’t be used as a Chinese intelligence source? Come on.

If social media is in cahoots with foreign intelligence, there are better ways to handle it in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The fact that China is using disinformation to stop the forced sale of TikTok is pretty telling that they will be negatively impacted by this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Or that they’re willing to expend energy to get us to think that.