The new Terms of Service landed, buried in the usual miles of impenetrable lawyer-speak, but their intent was clear. The app now explicitly reserves the right to collect a dystopian catalogue of your most sensitive data: ‘racial or ethnic origin’, ‘sexual life or sexual orientation, status as transgender or nonbinary, citizenship or immigration status’. The irony is, from my perspective, quite simply delicious: the platform was wrested from China over fears of data harvesting, only for its American stewards to formalise the practice in writing. Then, the censorship began. Not the covert, hypothetical manipulation Washington feared from Beijing, but overt, clumsy suppression.
Crosspost: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10514104
I am sorry but this is false. Both side censor a lot, they simply just don’t censor the same things
What do you think matters to American users more:
The conclusion is that Americans were better off with Chinese tiktok than American tiktok, which is the entire point of this takeover.
The world do not resolve toward the USA alone. No doubt that for American under USA ownership it is worse for them but doesn’t mean under Chinese it was good for the whole world
OK. You get that isn’t what this article is about, right?
Who has the threat of legal jurisdiction over Americans though? Hint: it’s not China.