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Why just TikTok? Are American corporations immune from coveting thy neighbor's possessions?
by itishappy 2y ago
Why just TikTok? Are American corporations immune from coveting thy neighbor's possessions?
- dralley 2y agoFor the same reason Grindr was forced to sell to a non-Chinese parent, the risks of putting some apps / information in the hands of strategic competitors is too high. If a domestic company tried to blackmail people with their sexual history, they face domestic legal accountability. China does not.
- tptacek 2y agoJurisprudentially? Yes.
- tmnvdb 2y agoWhy is "The Chinese Communist Part is more dangerous than Meta sharholders" such a hard thing to grasp?
- johnnyanmac 2y agoBecause Facebook destabilized our nation in 8 years far more than any claims of modern CCP wrongdoings to the US.
- Workaccount2 2y agoNow imagine what would have happened if Facebook was owned by Russia.
- itishappy 2y agoWhy should it be? What does ByteDance want that isn't also valuable to Facebook?
- Workaccount2 2y agoFacebook is a company owned by public shareholders. ByteDance is an arm of the Chinese Communist Party. What facebook and ByteDance want at their core are very different things.
- tmnvdb 2y agoThe destabilization of the United States and the end of it's status as the worlds richest and most powerful country?
- Hasu 2y agoIs it more dangerous? Facebook has done more harm to the average American than the Chinese Communist Party has. More dangerous to the US government? Yes, that's true.
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