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You think the problem with tiktok was that it was simply made in China?
Not the fact that it collected vast amount of data from everyone?
And here's a friendly reminder that Lenovo has had their very fair share of problems regarding security and data collection too.
collecting vast amount of data ? facebook does that too and instagram and google and who knows what else
But not for a foreign government (from their perspective).
Yeah good old american spyware
Why not? Half of them will sell to the highest bidder
even IF it was true why would u give a shit about a foreign government having ur data, then assholes that are gonna swat u or kidnap u into an unlabeled van arent gonna be foreign they dont fucking care its gonna be ur government doing that shit.
The US government doesn't want an adversary government to have the data of its citizens (because of varios reasons, including mass manipulation for example). They would of course have no issue with having that data themselves though (also because then they would be more in control over how the data is handled).
Whats being questioned isnt why the us gov and the corpos that own it would want to ban tiktok that much is self evident, the question is why any one would give a fuck let alone bother to celebrate it.