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As Americans flock to RedNote, privacy advocates warn about surveillance
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I find it amusing that Americans trust Chinese social media over American businesses.
China is half a world away and isn't directly involved in my day to day. The harms that China can do to me are significantly less than those American businesses.
It's not about trust, it's about accurate threat modeling.
This is the correct take. Anyone who paid the least amount of attention to Snowden's revelations know that the USA harvests absolutely everything online. Americans have more to fear from their info being misused by their own government and the corporations that own it than by the Chinese. The push to ban TikTok is just an attempt to cut out the spying competition. And jingoistic Sinophobia.
So the Chinese government is spying on me, I'm literally never going to China, plus they have backdoor access to like every cheap security camera on the planet.
It's a better position than giving all my info to one of the u.s. companies where it has a real effect on me, especially now.
i think part of it is that people kinda expect china to be spying, so it's a devil you know.
I suppose it's one group that they know won't be selling data back to the American government