You forgot to label the hat and shirt as also made in China.
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lol yes!
to be fair, while the microwave might be collecting your info, it isn't shaping your children.
the capitalist hellscape your children are living in is what's actually shaping them
I dunno, one kid from down the street near me looks pretty rectangular.
The current US President is committing genocide and he grew up watching Howdy Doody.
i assume u are down for banning all other capitalist controlled social media platforms too then?
Well if you put it like that... Yes
As if the data just lays somewhere and just get collected, obviously it is sold to the highest bidder which knows what to do with it
don't get me wrong, I don't mean to minimize that side, I just think there's a fair argument to be made that direct control of peoples eyeballs are potentially, comparatively, much more powerful.
The thing I find interesting about this image is that it oversimplifies the argument (like all internet politics), but contains the definition of the root of the problem from the side opposite that which the author is on.
See we live in a world where our livelihoods are based on us having things to do for income. Maybe someday a fantasy utopia will get built where everybody lives a life of leisure and can spend all their time focusing on what they wish to, but right now that doesn't exist. So when everything is Made in China that means nothing is made anywhere else which means opportunities for work are reduced everywhere else. This is especially painful for people whose parents were well off because of the industry in the town they lived, only to lose those opportunities because the work went to China.
Now add to that the differences in approach between geopolitical Western and Eastern governments and you have the current argument.
Tik-tok is in the crosshairs because it's convenient. Western Governments, most particularly the US, like to talk up the Free Market. Woo, Free Market, no government interference yeah! So just reaching out and legislating trade or manufacturing flies in the face of their ideology (not to mention that their campaign contributions might dry up if they piss off the oligarchs who are making big bank by manufacturing in foreign lands). Tik-Tok however, is perfectly situated. It's run by foreigners who don't fund political campaigns, and it has a practice that is politically palatable to oppose: Collecting data about Americans and storing that data within the reach of an ideologically different government.
This meme is also made in china. "/s"
Man some of these caricatures… I swear I’ve met this corn-bred Ghostbusters prop redneck before.
Big vuvuzela iphone energy
PSA: Samsung phones are not made in China. Iphone's sure are, though.
Cheaper (and sold more) A Series are, in fact, made in China (or Vietnam). Expensive S series are made in Korea though.
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You think the problem with tiktok was that it was simply made in China?
Not the fact that it collected vast amount of data from everyone?
And here's a friendly reminder that Lenovo has had their very fair share of problems regarding security and data collection too.
collecting vast amount of data ? facebook does that too and instagram and google and who knows what else
Yes, we should ban all those, too. Or just enforce EU style privacy laws in America.
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But not for a foreign government (from their perspective).
Yeah good old american spyware
Why not? Half of them will sell to the highest bidder
even IF it was true why would u give a shit about a foreign government having ur data, then assholes that are gonna swat u or kidnap u into an unlabeled van arent gonna be foreign they dont fucking care its gonna be ur government doing that shit.
The US government doesn't want an adversary government to have the data of its citizens (because of varios reasons, including mass manipulation for example). They would of course have no issue with having that data themselves though (also because then they would be more in control over how the data is handled).
Whats being questioned isnt why the us gov and the corpos that own it would want to ban tiktok that much is self evident, the question is why any one would give a fuck let alone bother to celebrate it.
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So it works exactly like every other social media app, but made in... China?
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Ah yes because as the first step isn't all the way to the goal, we shouldn't have taken it.
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