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It’s not the data the CCP wants, it’s the influence in what is served to American eyeballs by their algorithm. Data you can buy anywhere.
No backdoor necessary. They own the data. It’s theirs to do what they want with.
All online services have access to everything done on their system. Unless it uses End to End Zero Knowledge Encryption.
But this isn’t about collecting data. Its about China shaping the algorithm to shape American public opinion. As NYT discovered they are in fact doing already.
I just wish they would address the US corporations doing the exact same thing, using algorithms to shape American public opinion.
It’s just hypocritical for them to go after TikTok for doing it, specifically, when Meta and Google are doing the same thing, and have been doing so for longer.
If they really cared about this negatively affecting US public opinion, they would make a blanket law about algorithm shaping and go after any corpo that breaks it. Sadly, that won’t happen, because the US corpos are in our politicians pockets.
