• Atomic@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    Yes. But the US can control US based companies, and create laws regarding how that data is used. They can’t control a chineese one.

    Do you understand how the US government might think it’s a problem that foreign countries get access to every step their citizens take?

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      5 months ago

      But the US can control US based companies, and create laws regarding how that data is used

      Does that matter if they don’t create said laws - since they’re equally interested in their citizens data as facebook, google, etc. are?

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        5 months ago

        It does matter. Because the US can do it if they decide to. They have significant power over companies based in their country.

        They do not have significant power over companies NOT based in their country.

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            5 months ago

            That’s not what that means.

            The fact that a company who wants to operate in the US has to follow US guidelines is obvious. But doesn’t mean the US government has significant power over them if they’re not based in the US.

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      5 months ago

      us gov IS controlled by us corps they banned tiktok to get rid of competition. with the ever green excuse in amerikkkan politics of appealing to racism

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        5 months ago

        Sure buddy. And 9/11 was an inside job and airplanes are spreading chem-trails to control the population and weather too.