• Prunebutt@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      The chinese government doesn’t have any say in tiktok. Tiktok isn’t even available in china. This is an attemt to please repuplican politicians all the way.

      Correction: The PRC owns 1% and has one person in the board of directors of bytedance. Still: the fearmongering against the chinese government is just a smokescreen to draw attention away from the NSA.

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        Whatever. Let’s not pretend that authoritarian China doesn’t have its tentacles in the country’s business operations to steer everything to its will.

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          I’m seriously not a fan of China. But thinking that neoliberal western “democracies” are way less authoritarian is just a delusion.