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I've been using TikTok for a while and is that claim based or anything? I've been fed cat videos and unless that is now subliminal communist propaganda I have to say Chinese firms and American firms seem to have only one goal, which is to get me to click on more stuff

given that the party is seemingly trying to dismantle them to the best of their ability I'm inclined to think even they agree

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I'm more worried about what information may be leaving my phone if I install the app.

Any reason to believe it’s not the same as when you install any other app and grant it various permissions? Or are you insinuating that TikTok is exploiting the platforms and getting data it shouldn’t have access to?

It's more that it's possibly ending up in the hands of the Chinese government. Not that it's good when it ends up in the hands of Google, but that's less of a national security concern.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog

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