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The same could be said of the US. GAFAM works for the US just like TikTok works for China. I'd like to see the reaction of the US if the EU told Meta to sell the European branch so they "can't spy on EU citizens".
There’s a difference here. Neither the US not the EU can just put their hands out and say “data pleeeeeaaase” and get what they want. There are legal and procedural protections in place for such things.
Chinese companies on the other hand, are required to do whatever the CCP says, when they are told to.
Yeah, right. Like Meta will say "fuck you" to the NSA.
If things go through the proper legal channels, no. But we are talking about anything not just specific things that go through the courts.
The CCP can say “Give me everything you have on bufalo1973, they bothered me one time and I want to bomb their house” and any Chinese company immediately hands over the data, because they have to.
In contrast, the NSA can still get some of that data, but they can’t demand it and expect it to be handed over without a good reason, and without jumping through hoops.
As an aside, trying to equate the CCP and the NSA is… odd. The CCP answers to no one, the NSA answers to the DOD, who answers to Congress.
Aside from Apple refusing to decrypt phones most tech companies seem to not have put up any resistance to providing the US (or even the saudi government in the case of X) with whatever info they ask for.
Like I think one of the regulatory agencies had to introduce a rule to bar US tech companies from selling user data to china.
Oh no, won't somebody please think of Meta