1y ago

Some ex-TikTok employees say the social media service worked closely with its China-based parent despite claims of independence

Former TikTok senior data scientist:

“I literally worked on a project that gave U.S. data to China”

“They were completely complicit in that. There were Americans that were working in upper management that were completely complicit in this.”

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As an American, I would be appalled if my data were provided to the Chinese government for anything less than Meta charges to provide that info. It’s just unfair to TikTok and I believe in a free market in commoditizing the lives of human beings.
Is this where we post the shocked Pikachu face? Or do they only accept Pooh bear memes?
Sooo... no different than Google working with the US government, then.
- Clearly false - Google is banned in China.
- Um, the difference is China is our #1 enemy?
No one is fighting for tiktok thinking it didn't share info with China. The problem is China can just buy our data from a number of data brokers. Every social media, shopping, and US website collects your info to be sold. That's the problem. The singled out tiktok bc China was collecting it free and people are learning how corrupt our US government is.
- It’s more than “your data”, it’s the use of the platform to amplify/disseminate propaganda.
  
  Welcome to every social media platform out there. Meta has done experiments on teens and helped genocides. Twitter/X is filled with Nazis and white nationalist. Truth social.... enough said. Reddit had women abusive subreddits and child porn leaks. Those are a few examples of other platforms.
  That is the problem, all of them are the same and should be under heavy regulation since they give access to children and our data. Twitter providing the Saudi government with users tweets which ends with them being arrested seems like a "your data" issue.
Oh my god who cares
All these comapnies have your data, which they sell to anyone willing to buy it
Including the Chinese govt
This anti-Tik Tok campaign is just jingoistic noise and makes the US no better than the CPC who censored Facebook and Twitter years ago
- Oh my god who cares
  All these comapnies have your data, which they sell to anyone willing to buy of
  Conformity is a slave mindset. Just because its done and legal does not mean its right.

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