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Comment by can16358p | Hacker News Reader

I hate TikTok and CCP, but banning an app from use is just wrong.

Want to fight TikTok addiction or privacy issues with CCP? Sure, do it. But find other ways: banning users from using it, whereas especially everybody else can access it, is a huge punch on the rights of your own people.

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The thing is, most people outside the "larger ethnic group" in the US couldn't care less about their data being funneled to the CCP.

The anti china/russia/<insert anything that's over GMT+3> seems to really be a WASP centric pathological obsession.

Just my 2c

That's why the issue needs to be solved by legislation that regulates data collection. Targeting a specific app just because of WHO the data is going to is at best a military operation, or at worst xenophobic. Doesn't matter to me who is trying to collect my data, I want a say.

National security is not a uniquely "wasp" concern, which you would know if you were ever in the military. What an incredibly ignorant and racist thing to suggest.

I'm sure the murdering of 500K children in Irak was very important for national security.

Could you enlighten us?

Exactly.

The only solution would be to inform users that their data is funnelled to CCP servers in very obscure ways, that’s the only right thing that you could do.

Enable people to make informed decisions. Want your data stolen? Then go ahead.

yeah they could mandate tiktok to inform users after each video that data is sent to ccp

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