•  Steeve   ( @Steeve@lemmy.ca ) 
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    51 year ago

    Targeted advertising isn’t even on the same playing field of sketchyness as “massive and unchecked data collection by the Chinese government”. Even mentioning it in the same sentence seems like an attempt at forum sliding.

    And while I agree that the bill is an overreach and absolutely shouldn’t go through in it’s current form, it’s exactly what would be required to achieve your authoritarian stance of banning all social media.

    • Really? Because you could argue that targeted advertising lead to the January 6th riots.

      The chinese government doesn’t really benefit from data collection on western citizens. At least not if they don’t work for intelligence agencies or want to proclaim that Taiwan is a country while being on mainland China.

        • What is your point? Tell me, what the chinese government is supposedly doing with non-chinese user-data that is not worse than what the US surveillance capitalism is currently doing?

          Do you seriously think that China spread misinformation about “stolen elections”?