If you are naive enough to think an authoritarian government obsessed with digital surveillance would simply not use the largest data gathering tool on persons in the world, I don't know what to tell you. Considering what we know what they use their connections to Chinese companies for (theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/15/documents-link-huawei-uyghur-surveillance-projects-report-claims), it's fairly easy to connect the dots.
People who are determined to not accept this reality won't expect it, i'm not going to play the "give me more proof" game if no proof will ever do.
So tiktok wasn't involved in any war crimes or anything like that, but you're still doing it. Can you just admit "i hate china, i hate all enemies of my government" or something?
> So tiktok wasn't involved in any war crimes or anything like that
> People who are determined to not accept this reality won't expect it
I'll save my breath.
> Can you just admit "i hate china"
Nice bit of projection there at the end. "All criticism of an authoritarian government committing human rights atrocities is all just racism, actually." Exactly what CCP state media says.
TikTok has the ability (and have been caught) tracking specific American citizens (journalists) https://www.wsj.com/articles/tiktok-employees-improperly-acc...
TikTok as a Chinese company cannot refuse data requests on behalf of the Chinese government. TikTok's top security official resigned over this reality: https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/15/tiktoks-chief-security-off...
If you are naive enough to think an authoritarian government obsessed with digital surveillance would simply not use the largest data gathering tool on persons in the world, I don't know what to tell you. Considering what we know what they use their connections to Chinese companies for (theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/15/documents-link-huawei-uyghur-surveillance-projects-report-claims), it's fairly easy to connect the dots.
People who are determined to not accept this reality won't expect it, i'm not going to play the "give me more proof" game if no proof will ever do.