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they also toss in the chinese affiliation in hopes to bring even more ill will from the reader towards the company. china is probably doing some bad things, but
by mylons 4y ago
they also toss in the chinese affiliation in hopes to bring even more ill will from the reader towards the company. china is probably doing some bad things, but scraping facebook ain’t one of them.
- iandanforth 4y agoGood point, I missed that one.
- kube-system 4y agoScraping social media is something that China is very notorious for doing. They are 100% positively scraping all major social networks around the world. They do this to collect information of foreign policy interest to them, to silence political dissidents abroad, etc. For example: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/china-harvests-masses-of-data-on-western-targets-documents-show/2021/12/31/3981ce9c-538e-11ec-8927-c396fa861a71_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/china-harve... And: https://www.propublica.org/article/even-on-us-campuses-china-cracks-down-on-students-who-speak-out https://www.propublica.org/article/even-on-us-campuses-china...