A true patriot supports local spyware!
this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2024
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Please log my IP address. This is a house that loves Managed Democracy^tm^
Please log my IP address.
127.0.0.1
Checkmate. We're watching you.
lol I started DDoSing this losers IP address, good op sec dumba
holdon i have connection issues
Haha you're wrong! My IP address is actually 192.168.2.1
Imagine spending the time and effort to make that perfect whatabout meme you spent all day thinking about- only to have people tell you that all of them should be shut down.
23andMe is much, much worse than the others due to the nature of the data it sells.
Also, you don't actually need to share your own data to be vulnerable. Some stupid relative sharing their genetic information is enough to have some ideas about you. I'm fortunate that it's hasn't caught on in my home country.
What about them ISPs?
How come every thread I see about this topic, there is nobody who is concerned about letting the federal government dictate which apps you can and cannot use to communicate with other people? This is some 1984 shit.
Because it isn't new nor special.
Apps are a Service and services have been and are regulated for decades now and the system have been always arbitrary as fuck.
In the case of TikTok, the west, as a military alliance, should be concerned due to the nature of current valid Chinese laws and the implications of it.
And e.g. facebook has proven that they don't like to stick to rules about how to handle data. In case of TikTok, this could easily have bigger implications for e.g. the American military.
Isn't spotify European?
No, owned by Meta aka Facebook
Well actually IS mostly owned by europe entitities and individual shareholders. Only the founders and some europe capital mamooths had +50% of it
This forced sale of TikTok for national security is a farce because they were already forced to move their service to the US on an American-owned hosting provider, and they have already put people with a history of aligning with “American interests” into executive positions, like CEO Shou Zi Chew and vice president Michael Beckerman. I think the US “intelligence community” already has everything it needs to monitor and control TikTok.
It doesn't matter where the servers are located physically but who can access the data that's on them
They were physically relocated to the US so that the US can access the data, as people like Edward Snowden and Mark Klein have shown us. I’m sure the US knows precisely what data is and isn’t being sent to China.
Yes but TikTok only let the evil Chinese spy on you, while the others only allow good old Uncle Sam to spy on you.
Ah who am I kidding, they'll all hand your data over to any old cunt.
US companies != US federal government
At first I thought you were being serious, but I think this is a joke? That Americans don't care how many companies spy on them as long as it's not the government?
Which, is laughable because of course the government has contacts at everyone one of these companies and they'd gladly hand over your data then go to court to protect it
US federal gov already got their hand in companies ass.
reverse order
Spying on user data is a constitutional right of US companies, what are the poor going to live on when they can't traffic with your data, or when a disgusting red communist company steals their bread? A little more proper patriotism, guys. Bad enough that the EU is cutting the wings of this companies, therefore also don't use EU apps to make America great again.
Wtf is Spotify doing?
Makes me remember when UK and France invaded China and forced then to commercialize opium and destroy their country:
"The First Opium War was fought from 1839 to 1842 between China and Britain. It was triggered by the Chinese government's campaign to enforce its prohibition of opium, which included destroying opium stocks owned by British merchants and the British East India Company. The British government responded by sending a naval expedition to force the Chinese government to pay reparations and allow the opium trade.[1] The Second Opium War was waged by Britain and France against China from 1856 to 1860, and consequently resulted in China being forced to legalise opium."
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I don't discriminate. I say the data protection of all of these services is terrible and you shouldn't use them.
Just install an alternative app Store like Aurora or install it directly from TikTok sites.
For open source projects, you can also use Obtainium or F-Droid