The headline seems to be getting a more attention than the content of the article; that's disappointing, especially here on HN. It seems like the author is exp

The headline seems to be getting a more attention than the content of the article; that's disappointing, especially here on HN. It seems like the author is expressing opinions that others in the comments also hold: > We should be worried about private companies and governments potentially collecting data on millions of unsuspecting people and censoring content they don’t like. But those based in China represent just a sliver of that threat. > The answer isn’t to dismiss the potential menace of China’s surveillance programs, or to cheerlead for a rival set of tech oligarchs who simply happen to live in California and speak English. > We should broaden the concerns and criticisms of TikTok and its relationship to China to tech firms more generally, and push for an across-the-board guarantee of online privacy and free speech for all of the world’s people, whether they’re more worried about being tracked and manipulated by people in the United States or China. A bit utopian? Sure, but as so many here have already pointed out, this is Jacobin ;)