Yeah, anyone with any sort of security clearance should have it banned for them, honestly. For everyone else, it's not any worse than Twitter et al, and the US companies are probably selling the same data to the CCP through cutouts, because money's money. This is 100% because the US tech companies can't stand that it's kicking their butts among the young, and there's a convenient plausible excuse to get rid of it. Yes, they could tweak their algorithm at any time for propoganda to come at it from the other direction, but that's not anything they couldn't do with bot armies on current social media, as we have plenty of evidence for. I don't like it(because I'm a greymuzzle and prefer to read over watch videos 95% of the time) and don't use it, but to me this is mostly just a big smokescreen because for once a non-US company is at the forefront of the internet zeitgeist.
It also delays talk of any comprehensive privacy laws and data control laws that would apply to ALL social media, because they can look like they're doing something against the evil of the day, which is another benefit for the US companies. Some of the folk behind this probably do have good intentions, but just don't know the tech and don't realize that there's more to it than what they've been told.
It also delays talk of any comprehensive privacy laws and data control laws that would apply to ALL social media, because they can look like they're doing something against the evil of the day, which is another benefit for the US companies. Some of the folk behind this probably do have good intentions, but just don't know the tech and don't realize that there's more to it than what they've been told.
