>China passed a law a couple of years ago requiring all Chinese companies to give the government live access to their databases.
Yeah, just like US. TikTok isn't any different from, say, YouTube in this regard.
Yeah, just like US. TikTok isn't any different from, say, YouTube in this regard.
Completely different to China just having access to that data.
It's no wonder that the largely liberal audience of HN supports the subversion route the US takes compared to the more brutal but vastly more honest way the Chinese do it.