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Technowatermelon. Elder Millenial. Building Farcaster. 

nf.td/varun

Watched it. Super reasonable take to me tbh. Citizens should have legal right over what happens to their data and a general protective law in the states is overdue and could fix a bunch of issues. Ppl could still opt out to sell their data then.

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i'm squarely in the "don't let other nation states have the ability to subtly influence large swaths of your population during elections" camp

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Spying by foreign companies which can be influenced by an antagonistic nation state is much more dangerous for your democracy than spying by local companies.

I see it as different rules for different platforms. Facebook and others do the same thing. It’s just “homegrown spying: ok, foreign: bad”. We need a level playing field of privacy protection, not a witch hunt

i actually think they are very competent and realize that most of their voter base consumes and earns from tiktok and this is an easy way to score votes

it does come at the expense of national security, but i'm sure their mental gymnastics regimen is strong enough to vault around that

Interesting. I hadn‘t thought about it in that context. But then it sounds like she‘s and other left wing influencers are totally missing the point.

Id rather they just say this than all those nonsense. 'Hey it's a Chinese company and ccp is an evil adversary. enuff said. ban'

Imagine the USSR owning CBS during the Cold War

+1. 

As we've seen in Twitter Files, even the US tech companies have to listen to the government. Now imagine how it works in China.

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anecdotally, most worrying example I heard was someone visiting class at a school talking about Taiwan and noting that Taiwan is not part of China

And one student puts their hand up and asks "but I thought Taiwan was part of China"

I’m in the don’t let elections be dominated by people who believe god writes books category.