@ethanz nice article! I hadn't heard about people migrating to the other Chinese social media app 🤦
John Oliver did a take on this a little while ago: https://youtu.be/5CZNlaeZAtw?si=8CdzQZ0v-7GHyFfn
IMO, I think you're on the money. This is protectionist BS brought on by lobbyists. I don't see a black and white obviously right/wrong answer here. It's hard for me to believe the rhetoric about how evil the Chinese government MIGHT be while we have documented proof about evil done by US social media and there's crickets (Myanmar, Russia using FB to run disinfo/propaganda, etc etc).
"But the Chinese government will know everything about you!"
... Just like , which will happily sell that to anyone for the right price? Even foreign governments? Maybe they'll even try to obfuscate it with some corporate shell games so they can claim they "had no idea"?
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