• maplebar@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    From China’s perspective, Facebook probably IS a “national security risk”, which is why it is already banned over there.

    For American to do business and sell products in China, they almost always have to go through a Chinese company. I’m sure that’s part capitalism and part accountability theater, but it’s just a fact. So why is it such an outrage for America to ask TikTok to do the same?

    • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
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      3 days ago

      Google is even banned in China. Most Western social media and tech platforms are banned there, and have been for decades.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 days ago

      Throw in that Tik Tok is banned in China, so it won’t be a national security risk for them to sell it, just profit and then have to invest that money into other forms

    • JackbyDev@programming.dev
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      3 days ago

      Because the end result of this line of thinking is every country having siloed social media and not being able to communicate.