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Eco-hydro-bio-enviro-physico-open-data-scientist and FNR-ATTRACT fellow at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, sharing own opinions, searchable

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I'm not saying we shouldn't worry about how China might be using TikTok to steal our data and manipulate us...

But why aren't we at least as worried about the U.S. billionaires who own the other apps stealing our data and trying to manipulate us?

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@rbreich One would hope that companies based in your own country would have less interest in destroying democracy than the Chinese (or Russian, or Iranian... for that matter) government. Of course, there are exceptions, unfortunately, where autocratically run companies work on pulling the rug away from under our and their own feet by sabotaging democracy. So, yes, we should be concerned about all of them, but we should not be generally concerned more about those than about Chinese control.

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