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Wait until they hear what data Instagram/Meta collects during use!
But they're a US company so it's ok.
Realistically what is the worst thing China is doing with your private data? Selling it? If you’re not a Chinese National, at least you don’t fall under their jurisdiction.
If you’re a U.S. citizen, with all the tech oligarchs cozying up to the current administration, I’d be a lot more concerned with Facebook/Twitter/Etc collecting your data.
Probably mapping out the extended support networks of democratic activists in Taiwan to prepare to throw them in jail after a forcible military takeover.
So democratic activists in Taiwan have extensive networks in the US?
I mean, you said it.
The CCP is significantly more oppressive, gives zero shits about human rights or trademarks or really anyone at all. The US at least pretends to care.
Bro you can stop that narrative. The truth is out now.
I'm not here to defend the Chinese government or anything, but there is an argument to be made that the US has an equivalency to each one of these things.
CCP officials at tech companies - NSA backdoors
Uyghur slaves - Prison labor aka war on drugs
Taiwan - Gaza/Literally any "3rd world" nation with oil
Censorship - Right wing media empires/red state bills targeted to downplay US atrocities taught in schools
Retaliation against protestors - Police brutality Social media censorship - Oligarchs owned social media
I think a lot of people are less falling for Chinese propaganda and more overcoming US propaganda.
With the caveat that we have tons of actual evidence for the US equivalent, whereas the claims that China does those things are usually "We absolutely swear they do bro" from the people who swore Hamas was raping babies or whatever.
No you wouldn't. If you were, you'd have listen to the many people that probably have corrected you on all those State Department talking points
That's never happened. And being that you haven't either, I think it's a fair guess that it won't anytime soon.
What truth? Who talks like this and thinks it means something?
For the past week the people of China and the United States, as well as other countries have been comparing notes. Debunking propaganda on both sides. Realizing that much of what we've all been told for years/decades, has been lies.
I'm ootl. What debunks have come out?
For starters, that the Uyghur genocide is yet another piece of atrocity propaganda from the US. We know what a genocide looks like and how it's impossible to hide in the modern world, as Gaza showed.
Blurry satellite pictures of buildings and a German fascist swearing it for ten pages (financed by Raytheon and Lockheed-Martin) isn't proof.
The US is in the process of deporting all its migrants and threatening invasions on half the world.
I get that gringos don't want to own up to their complicity by inaction but you oughta stop pontificating about how other governments are worse. Unless they're called Israel, they weren't before and they sure as fuck aren't now.
Get fucked, racist.
Lmaooo hurting gringos feelings is being racist? Y'all have had concentration camps for longer than you've been without them, you know their fucking addresses and they're still there.
Do forgive me for throwing y'all's opinions on racism in the dustbin.
You cannot be a serious leftist and pretend to be offended by a little "anti-white" rhetoric.
Based on what? The US imprisons more people, kills more people, tortures more people. The only way to argue that China is more oppressive is basically to start with the assumption they are and then work backwards to justify it.
I listed a handful of reasons above, of which no one has denied or refuted. Just downvoted.
Actually you didn't. You listed a bunch of accusations against China (which were refuted, you just ignored that), but you didn't even try to explain how that's more oppressive than the USA. Even if all your accusations were true, the US is still more oppressive.
now we've got another refutopolis warrior.
What does that even mean?
That doesn't affect people not in china or not bordering china.
Strawmanning the open source federated social media enthusiast crowd as unaware fans of meta?