@marshray @mozz @flexghost @maynarkh @eljefedsecurit

Let's take your arguments and break them down a bit...

You mentioned, first, " The threat it poses:

"1 The Chinese government treats communication networks as their personal hoovering-attachment for any data they might want. "

In Texas? Huh. Are you sure your communist plot isn't being monitored? You DO know that US has its own intelligence apparatus, right?

"Companies are required by law to operate as an arm of Chinese intelligence, both in terms of giving information and in terms of manipulating what information people on their network are allowed to see."

Again, this sounds like you have ZERO knowledge of 'ProjectTexas', which I have left you links to... in this thread.

"It's not just your TikTok data. It's photos and files on your phone, your contacts, your messages, basically anything that the app with its too-permissive permissions can get its hands on, can potentially go up to Chinese intelligence."

So, like #Meta's overreach permission wise like their new #Threads app? Huh.

"TikTok is not structured like any other app. It has features like custom-downloading and running arbitrary binaries from its central server that honestly don't even make much sense except as spying apparatus (consistent with #1)."

Not true. This is very similar to #Meta apps in the way they are structured. Did you know you ARE describing qualities of #GammaGroup and other #malware & #spyware #MITM type behaviors, though? Hmm.

"What China might do with this unprecedented level of access to everyone's phones is malevolent in a different way than, say, Facebook's access to everyone's data."

So the #ProjectTexas with #OracleSystems IN #OracleCloud is... A communist plot? DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHO FOUNDED ORACLE?!?!?!

"Like Facebook they have the ability to e.g. influence an election, but they also have the ability to try to blackmail an individual to compromise them, or do for-real torture in the real world (say by tracking down a dissident via TikTok spying and then having one of their little Chinese-police-in-America units grab them)."

LIKE FACEBOOK.
1:1

OMG YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND #PROJECTTEXAS!

You must of missed the whole Taylor
L. story on this? Huh.

I'LL continue...

Obviously you have met some cat that pushed some stuff off the side of the pond you are on then?

Weird flex that your go to is Flat Earthers to support your side. I'm glad I have time for you to read and catch up a bit though. So you want a different source? Cool. Here is a go:

This one made me laugh:
https://www.cio.com/article/405380/metaverse-the-time-for-cios-to-experiment-is-now.html

Also this : Dumb FSCKs! You trust someone who gets paid $1. A. YEAR!
https://ciowomenmagazine.com/meta-introduces-privacy-setting/

Rebranding Fails, from Harvard, Marks alma!
https://hbr.org/2021/11/facebooks-rebrand-has-a-fundamental-problem

The Brand is Toxic : Meta, a Case Study : Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-meta-rebrand-damaged-reputation-study-finds-2021-11?op=1

The Verdict . Co. UK : https://www.verdict.co.uk/meta-failed-rebrand/

Perhaps your argument of attacking TikTok and saying 'this is worse than Meta's, as I tried to keep simple, for obvious reasons, that your arguments are just supporting my same criticism of Meta, a known fraud company, known for propaganda, who has since 2019 DELETED 8 BILLION ACCOUNTS, YEARLY. That's 2+ BILLION per quarter. Fraud Issues. Leadership Issues.

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I could go on and on and on and on.... But I'll stop here. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯