Just wanna clear this up: it is absolutely NOT racist to "selectively" fear a massive opaque data grab by the CCP.pic.twitter.com/Y51P22ZvHn
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It's a good point, though, that while the CCP surely gets a better deal with tiktok, the hugely decentralized network of data brokers in the adtech space means that the CCP can and does get much of the same data by buying it from non-chinese companies.
It's not clear to me that this is true, or even arguable. Broadly, people misunderstand the distinction between collecting, utilizing and selling data. Apps under the observation and/or control of the CCP are most concerning precisely because those lines fade away.
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Where is the evidence that CCP owns ByteDance/TikTok data?
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I think it's reasonable to assume that if the CCP wants data that a Chinese company has, they need only ask for it.
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I agree that data is easier to get and analyze if you can get it all from one major app rather than collating from all sorts of different sources that aren't designed for interoperability. But what we care about is CCP *using* data, and they can do that with or without tiktok.
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