National security doesn't have to mean they use the app to take over the devices it is installed on. It can also be used to spread misinformation or blackmail people.

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enos_feedler 6 months ago | parent [-]

Oh. Like what our domestic social media company let happen with Cambridge Analytica? Glad our government is so focused on this one. Great work.

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deaddodo 6 months ago | parent [-]

This is the argument that a group of toddlers make when one of them gets caught with their hand in the cookie jar. "Yeah...yah....but Mrs. Spangler, I saw Sally steal a cookie last week". OK, cool....your friend is stealing one now and currently has their hand in the cookie jar.

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enos_feedler 6 months ago | parent [-]

Terrible comparison. China hasn’t been caught doing anything nefarious with Tiktok whereas Facebook was caught red handed. The problem is a tiktok ban is based on speculation and playing on the fears of the american people. The irony is the story is pitched as China using tiktok to program a bunch of american monkeys, meanwhile our own government is programming us with “china is the adversary”

Sally stole a cookie from the cookie jar and now the teacher is pointing at the fat kid and not letting him be in the classroom alone with the cookie jar. Just bc he is fat.

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deaddodo 6 months ago | parent [-]

> China hasn’t been caught doing anything nefarious with Tiktok whereas Facebook was caught red handed.

Sure they haven't:

https://www.politico.eu/article/tiktok-far-right-european-pa...

Facebook deserves more scrutiny, that doesn't forgive or waive TikTok's issues. It's a bad faith deflection.

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enos_feedler 6 months ago | parent [-]

This article literally makes my point and says nothing about China being caught red handed:

“Parliament and other institutions as well as national governments issued restrictions on its use in 2023 over fears of Beijing’s access to the data”

Thanks for wasting my fucking time reading your bullshit links.

	▲	deaddodo 6 months ago \| parent [-]
		If you say so.