“Take lobbying away”

Or he feels that DeSantis can actually accomplish the terrible things they want to do, while not saying the quiet part out loud like Trump.

I guarantee they are perfectly happy to get political when it comes to things like labor rights.

“Also, you keep equating the US government with US companies.”

““They’re both close enough as to be no difference”. No, they are not.”

“you’re a bootlicker”

Then who the fuck is it about?

“I never said any of this was okay.”

It’s more, if you’re not found anything against those that are currently misusing the data, why should I care about this other actor who has far less ability to affect my life?

What good is doing TikTok if the Chinese government can just buy the same information from data brokers?

All of that data is freely accessible from data brokers. They didn’t have to make TikTok to get it.

Then why are you only advocating against one app? Why don't you advocate for comprehensive days privacy regulations that all have to abide by?

If you believed that, and that they were more responsible for it than Facebook or Google, then why not instead advocate for data privacy regulations for all actors?

Like those people who supported Jan 6?

I’m even more worried about people who use the Chinese Boogeyman to excuse what Facebook and Google do. All those things you say China is doing? They’re not doing it to me. And China is the least powerful of any of those groups outside of China. They have far less ability to affect my life than Facebook, Google, or…

That’s your fucking answer? That they’re going to use the TikTok data to decide where to launch nukes? You’re more paranoid than I thought

Because we’re supposed to be better than them.

Facebook and Google.

But they could just as easily use Google, Facebook, or any other data broker to get that data.

No, that’s not an answer. I’m not buying the, “There’s different motivations, so that makes it OK!” horseshit.