alt Hacker NewsPeople 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.
If anyone criticizing it was one of the people in histrionics over ChInEse MInD cOnTRoL then those are the people I'm mocking.
Because even if it was true that TikTok was a "CCP weapon of war" - which I have yet to see actual evidence of - that's still less of a threat than the USG and existing Western social media platforms, all of which are definitely full of foreign and domestic psychological operations.
And when that same lot (it's mostly the same people) gets Section 230 repealed and has the US internet regulated by the FCC and all online speech within the Western world gets censored and monitored for wrongthink UK style, I'll mock them again from behind my nine illegal proxies.