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All of Chinese economic activity is subservient to the state, including companies like ByteDance. The information they gather goes back to the state. This is no
by mechanical_bear 5y ago
All of Chinese economic activity is subservient to the state, including companies like ByteDance. The information they gather goes back to the state. This is not “yellow peril”, this is “Sino peril” if you must call it something scary sounding. It has nothing to do with race, and everything to do with national security and ideology.
- ok123456 5y agoIf we can put aside our own ideology and national bias, the business model and tactics of ByteDance, Facebook or any other company in the ad-tech supported social media realm operates more-or-less with the same objectives and does the same things. Ideology is just the trash can we are all eating from.
- edmundsauto 5y agoIt's not necessarily wise to put aside national bias. There are well informed, intelligent, honorable people who believe that Chinese hegemony would be a bad thing. In that lens, it would be perfectly consistent to want to prevent Western citizens from being influenced by the Chinese company/govt, while being OK with the same power in the hands of Western governments. IE, you would need to also assert that Western companies having these data is no better than Chinese companies, an opinion which is hotly debated and not at all settled.
- ok123456 5y agoThere are well informed, intelligent, honorable people who believe that American hegemony has been bad thing.
- edmundsauto 5y agoYep, totally agree! They usually aren’t the ones making the case that for Us citizens, it’s better to have data in the Us companies hands rather than Chinese. I may have missed your overall point though - would you mind being explicit about it?
- mechanical_bear 5y agoYes, but no well informed, intelligent, honorable people who believe Chinese hegemony would be a good thing.