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.
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.
I find it amusing that Americans trust Chinese social media over American businesses.
I think it’s more of a general apathy towards privacy than it is trusting any particular organization
Yeah, the people on TikTok (or RedNote) aren’t really the ones concerned about big corporations on anything but an aesthetic level.
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
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.