[HN Gopher] TikTok admits to spying on U.S. users as effort to b...
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       TikTok admits to spying on U.S. users as effort to ban the app
       heats up
        
       Author : CharlesW
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2022-12-24 21:24 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (mashable.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (mashable.com)
        
       | Ancalagon wrote:
       | Nice, add some fuel to this fire, let it burn.
        
       | rnd0 wrote:
       | Well, color me shocked.
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       | I think this is something that's widely known (edit or heavily
       | suspected), but the people who use TikTok as a rule don't care.
        
       | polartx wrote:
       | Reminds me of when congressman Josh Hawley needled the COO of
       | TikTok for 10 straight minutes trying to get a direct answer as
       | to whether any TikTok employees with access to US user data were
       | affiliated with the Chinese communist party. That was 3 months
       | ago. https://youtu.be/meWM8d4Uz7Q
        
       | ksniwmidjd wrote:
       | We recently learned that Twitter was receiving money from the FBI
       | that enabled the US government to censor users and suppress
       | certain hashtags, etc. But TikTok is seemingly the only one the
       | media is trying to push to get banned. Seems strange. Wish we had
       | an honest media.
        
         | dpkirchner wrote:
         | The way that Twitter/FBI relationship has been portrayed by
         | certain people has been dangerously misleading -- don't fall
         | for it. Twitter was compensated for assisting with
         | investigations (e.g. collecting information), which is entirely
         | normal, and has nothing to do with censorship. Don't be a
         | sucker, the people pushing this conspiracy theory are depending
         | on us to not investigate the matter for ourselves and to
         | instead get angry.
        
           | polartx wrote:
           | Its no conspiracy that the FBI acted to try and delegitimize
           | the Hunter Biden laptop story by warning tech companies
           | (Twitter, Facebook, etc) about a 'Russian disinformation
           | campaign'. This, of course, was entirely false and no one
           | knew that better than the FBI, as it was the laptop repair
           | shop owner who (legally) possessed the laptop who had
           | directly contacted the FBI first.
        
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