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I don’t think it’s Sinophobic to assume in a country where the government gets a board seat, that the government might be involved in decision making at ByteDan

• krapp 2y ago
  I don't believe anyone is accusing the government of merely "being involved in decision making at ByteDance." After all, many governments, including that of the United States, have some degree of involvement in the decision making of various companies at some level, and such a banal statement wouldn't warrant the paranoia or hyperbole surrounding TikTok. People were accusing the CCP of using TikTok as a propaganda platform (despite the lack of any real supporting evidence other than a prevailing belief that there must be nefarious intent behind any Chinese owned product) and are now accusing the CCP of also having brainwashed Americans to move to another even more sinister app where I guess they get a dose of the super propaganda? I mean, that isn't how real governments operate, it's how comic book supervillains operate.