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Exactly, this asset is worth nothing to the CPP if sold.

TikTok is worth approximately nothing to the CPC either way. It’s not like the Chinese state is hurting for money. They have a surplus of US dollars that they’re busy unloading, and they have fiat monetary sovereignty of their own currency. The app is banned in China, so nobody there is going to miss it. Who is invested in ByteDance that might care? American private equity: ByteDance’s US investors weigh options as bill to ban TikTok advances

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The national security angle is a farce because ByteDance was already forced to move their service to the US on an American-owned hosting provider, and they have already put people with a history of aligning with “American interests” into executive positions, like CEO Shou Zi Chew and vice president Michael Beckerman, and American oligarchs are invested in it. I think the US “intelligence community” already has everything it needs to monitor and control TikTok.

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Well there’s PeerTube and PixelFed. Perhaps a few will try it, but mostly I think they”ll go to other corporate American platforms like Instagram.

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specter This is silly. It’s an exaggeration to even call it a Chinese company.

[Singaporean CEO Shou] Chew added that 60% of ByteDance is owned by global institutional investors such as the Carlyle Group, General Atlantic and Susquehanna International Group, while 20% of the firm is owned by Zhang and 20% owned by employees around the world. Three of the company’s five board members are Americans, he said.

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land of the free btw

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Because American hosting providers like Oracle are constituent parts of the military-intelligence-industrial complex, as are American ISPs.

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Is ByteDance Chinese?

Definitely.

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Whelp if corporate American media says that then it must be true 😆

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I think the article speaks for itself. It says ByteDance definitely is a Chinese company and then goes on to explain the ways in which it isn’t, including majority ownership. If the US government has the power to kill the company, one might argue that it’s more an American one than Chinese.

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The definition of a golden share is effective control.

That’s not nothing, but still not the be-all and end-all that you seem to want to make it.

The US government has the power to kill Huawei if they wanted to; it’s their territory and they can do whatever the heck they want, of course. That doesn’t mean Huawei is US-owned.

Is this a joke? The US government just tried and failed. Huawei reclaims top spot in China’s smartphone sales ranking, its first time back since company was added to US blacklist

Huawei Technologies climbed back to the No 1 spot of China’s smartphone market in the initial two weeks of this year, according to a report by research firm Counterpoint, putting more pressure on 2023 industry leader Apple and major mainland rivals in the world’s largest handset market.

This marks the first time Huawei reclaimed the top smartphone sales ranking on the mainland since Washington imposed sanctions on the Shenzhen-based company when it was added to the US trade blacklist in May 2019, which crippled the firm’s once-lucrative handset business, according to the report on Sunday by Counterpoint research analysts Ivan Lam and Zhang Mengmeng.

That resurgence was jump-started by Huawei’s surprise release last August of its Mate 60 Pro 5G smartphone – powered by its advanced Kirin 9000S processor, which was locally developed in spite of US tech sanctions – as well as the firm’s Android replacement mobile platform HarmonyOS, the report said. It also pointed out that brand loyalty among Chinese consumers greatly contributed to the popularity of Huawei’s new 5G handsets.

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China can influence TikTok into giving them their data for free today.

Perhaps they could, but there’s no evidence that they as yet have. And of what use is your TikTok data to the Chinese state, anyway? Money is no object to them, and they can buy your data from other US companies as well. Anyone can.

The US government doesn’t care about protecting your data. They care about accessing it themselves and controlling narratives on social media in order to shape public opinion.

They’re after the fediverse now as well. Atlantic Council: Collective Security In a Federated World (PDF)

Centralized and decentralized platforms share a common set of threats from motivated malicious users—and require a common set of investments to ensure trustworthy, user-focused outcomes.

Many discussions about social media governance and trust and safety are focused on a small number of centralized, corporate-owned platforms that currently dominate the social media landscape: Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, and a handful of others. The emergence and growth in popularity of federated social media services, like Mastodon and Bluesky, introduces new opportunities, but also significant new risks and complications. This annex offers an assessment of the trust and safety (T&S) capabilities of federated platforms—with a particular focus on their ability to address collective security risks like coordinated manipulation and disinformation.

Trust and safety my ass. This is about manufacturing consent. They’re failing to control young American’s impression of and reaction to the Gaza genocide that’s being done in their name, so they’re pulling out all the stops now. Not the Onion but the NYT last week: Government Surveillance Keeps Us Safe: A surveillance law referred to as Section 702 is needed to protect us from foreign threats.

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“subversive influence” 😂

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Happy Perfect Date Day, to those who celebrate.

Senior Democrat calls for arrests of ‘leftwing fascists’ urging Gaza ceasefire (www.theguardian.com)

Protesters calling for Israel to cease fire in its war with Hamas who have disrupted US public events and infrastructure are practicing “leftwing fascism” or “leftwing totalitarianism”, a senior US House Democrat said, adding that such protesters are “challenging representative democracy” and should be arrested....

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418: 🫖

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Trumpism? 100% caused by social media.

Trump is the result of the Death of the Liberal Class. Chris Hedges: The Politics of Cultural Despair

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Meanwhile, relative to the fertility rate of Hans, that of Uyghurs in Xinjiang (and other ethnic minorities elsewhere) increased: en.wikipedia.org/…/Affirmative_action_in_China

The Chinese government officially allowed minority parents to have more than one child per family instead of the one demanded for Han people as part of the (former) one-child policy.

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Shameless copy from @afellowkid: lemmygrad.ml/comment/4125433

Man I hate this dude

The history of the Middle East since 1948 shows Israel constantly striving for peace, only to be rebuffed time and again by the Arabs.

– Antony J. Blinken, “Lebanon and the Facts”, 1982

Israel is not, has never been, nor will ever be the irreproachable, perfectly moral state some of its supporters would like to see. Israelis are, after all, only human. Still, one pedestal the Jewish state can stand on–and stand on alone in the Middle East–is that of a democracy. Yes, there are tragic excesses in the occupied territories. True, the invasion of Lebanon claimed many innocent lives. The fact remains, though, that Israelis question themselves and their government openly and honestly. Eventually, as in other democracies, those responsible for wrongdoing are held accountable.

– Antony J. Blinken, “Israel’s Saving Grace”, 1982

The summer of 1982 may be remembered in history as the time Israel passed from adolescence to adulthood. The illusions of a child are left behind. But the Jewish state remains special, an oasis in a desert. Its citizens have built a working democracy from scratch in a region that has no others. Israelis must treasure that democracy, protect it with all their will. For if they don’t, the growing pains that are Lebanon, Shatila and Sabra, the repression of Arabs and the feud between Ashkenazim and Sephardim could turn into a plague.

– Antony J. Blinken, “The Danger Within”, 1983

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Short answer: github.com/…/bypass_paywalls_clean-latest.xpi

Long answer:

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The Chinese government denies none of it—aside from Western disinformation about it—nor is it kept secret from the Chinese people.

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Meanwhile Bandera statues ain’t going anywhere in Ukraine, nor in the US for that matter, nor in Canada: Canada Has a Nazi Monument Problem

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A little googling seems to show that China is Taiwan’s largest trading partner, and Taiwan is China’s fourth largest. China is no slouch in medical technology: it is filing twice as many patents as Taiwan. And it is quickly catching up in advanced semiconductors, much to the surprise of the US and its efforts to hamstring it. The Economist: China is quietly reducing its reliance on foreign chip technology

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Funny that you should call them coup governments, when such governments are usually products of the US.

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As I’ve said before, Media Bias/Fact Check is a joke.

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Because his work and his creation is garbage: lemmy.ml/comment/9599423

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painting the US presence as an occupation

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I swear it’s MBFC’s job to not understand that. It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. — Upton Sinclair

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If you’re not a liberal then what are you? A socialist? A monarchist? The Republican and Democratic parties are both liberal ones, as were the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, and Whig parties before them.

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🦭

Very well, we shall resume in an hour.

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Oct. 2023:

Mar. 2023: Aaron Mate at UN: OPCW cover-up denies justice to Douma victims

Aaron Maté, Kit Klarenberg, Max Blumenthal, Ben Norton, and others have been reporting on this extensively for years: , -helmets,

Human Rights Watch’s main purpose is to manufacture consent for US regime change operations.

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@yogthos and I and many people on lemmy.ml almost always are.

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This subthread, which @yogthos started, is about Lemmy libs’ love for MBFC. My criticisms of MBFC itself and of US disinformation about Syria are in other subthreads of this post.

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It’s like raiaaaaain on your wedding day.

This welterweight debate bro is still waiting for his orbital teapot as well. What a bunch of silly feints. I would stop wasting my time. The post is two days old anyway.

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Never believe that LIBs are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. — J. P. Satire, probably

When was the last time you answered a Lemmy or Reddit post/thread that was more than five months old?

I think there should be some incentive for that, like make those kinds of comments a spotlight or something. Maybe make a community called “late replies” that showcases the best such replies, or have a rule saying they grant free karma (in Reddit’s case).

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RemindMe! 5 months

Does anybody else feel guilty being suspicious of anybody in a black hoodie with the hood up?

Specifically because I live in a hot climate, I’m always fighting the feeling of being suspicious of anybody I pass in the streets with a hoodie pulled up. I feel guilty because of racial profiling associated with hoodies, but gotta protect myself and my family, especially because in many cases the perpetrators of assault and...

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What does the color of the hoodie have to do with anything? 🤨

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Here’s a fun bonus one:

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Foreign election interference via propaganda is another grossly overblown threat.

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New TrueAnon Rule: Never entrust the US Treasury with more than you can afford to lose.

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We’re continuing to speedrun dedollarization despite all evidence amerikkka

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Medical practitioner influencers who are spreading FUD and pseudo-science, can they be held liable in the USA? Do platforms they're on have no obligation to protect users from such harm?

The person I am talking about is Dr. Palaniappan Manickam aka Dr. Pal, a board-certified gastroenterologist from Sacramento, California, who is also a YouTuber. He’s created various videos targeting Indian netizens, most of which are decent, but not without adding his own twist of misinformation, that are considered...

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It’s not that hard to understand what c/asklemmy is supposed to be about: it was one of the first communities created on the original Lemmy instance (this one) as a clone of r/AskReddit.

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Kurzgesagt is neoliberal garbage.

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Newsweek, 2022: Americans Can Now Expect to Live Three Years Less than Cubans

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China files more patents than the next nine countries combined: www.wipo.int/en/ipfactsandfigures/patents

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China is first country to hold over 4 million domestic patents

The number of China’s domestic valid patents does not include those held in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

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