alt Hacker NewsBut that's fine, right?
Because TikTok in the US is run by an American company now, right?
It was only a problem when TikTok was owned by a Chinese company, right?
Then, it was little more than a propaganda and surveillance platform for a hostile foreign government but now it's a propaganda and surveillance platform for a government that can actually harm you. But getting black-bagged by ICE or whatever other band of Christofascist moral police the next decade brings is a price worth paying to avoid the risk of indoctrinating the youth into Communism, right?
Right?
People are clearly criticizing it.
The theoretical difference is that the people can push their govt to restrict what data the American version of TikTok collects and what it does.
Unfortunately it’s looking likely this difference will remain theoretical.