Yes. And look where it’s gotten us. Oligarchic control

None of which are all that reassuring.

Q: Do you plan to do this bad thing?

A: Definitely not…Yet

There are a lot of reviews online raving about its reliability,

The way you set up this sentence, I was expecting a huge BUT at the end

Just say you didn’t bother reading the article.

This is about the truck drivers. Now stop putting down your fellow workers for trying to earn enough to remain alive and healthy so they can continue providing their services to the company.

Maybe not easily, but I’m not aware of a way to prevent people from manually flashing a new firmware replacing what’s there.

So by hiding their ties…they’ve exposed their ties.

One would have thought the administrators at MIT would also be smart…guess not.

Which are groups of assets

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… And because they refused, is now banned.

So, yes it was.

That’s very clearly not what they meant and you know it.

A small but vocal chunk of people moved to another Chinese social media app with the announcement of the TikTok shutdown. This app is mostly used by Chinese users unlike TikTok. The idiots are the ones trading one foreign monitoring app for another - one which doesn’t even primarily use the language they speak

No, I’m trying to predict when their corporate overloads would tell them to sit the fuck down.

Joking about this is part of how it slowly gains acceptance. Let’s just not

Uh no, we are not saying the same thing.

No one intelligent would say this:

Yeah, he signed a 44 billion dollar deal as a joke

And mean it seriously.

That many carveouts pretty much renders the entire thing pointless.

I meant the claim that this was somehow a good thing, and not a performative “anti-china” bill that was really about cutting out the young people’s current venue for organizing against the wealthy’s interests, like their criticisms of the genocide in Gaza. China will still get all that info by buying it off the hundred other apps that collect it. If they cared about the data collection, they’d have addressed all data collection.

Except banning vpns would kill the economy immediately. Pretty much every big corporation is utilizing vpns to facilitate their work from home infrastructure. Hell, often even internally. Not to mention state and federal governments also use them. Suggesting they could do that is a joke.

You’re not looking very closely then

China doesn’t let it’s own people use these apps…

Yeah, that’s where the previous Chinese leaders fled when the communists took over…