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Apple won't return TikTok to the App Store until it's sold to a U.S. buyer (appleinsider.com)

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Apple w

[+] [email protected] -39 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Come on over to redNote, it's literally a gigantic cultural exchange, maybe the biggest so far in history

[+] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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[+] [email protected] -15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

That's the dumbest shit I've ever heard. What do you think happens when you use American apps? 😂 You're literally just scared of it because you were told it's bad. Know how I know? Because you haven't tried it.

Yeah that Chinese propaganda? Memes and recipes for cola wings. Educate yourself and maybe stop listening to all that American propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I trust Google with my data way more than I trust any Chinese based company. If Daddy Xi asks for a Chinese company's data, he gets that company's data. I would even trust Meta or X with my data more, and I have roughly zero trust with Meta/X.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

If Daddy Xi asks for a Chinese company’s data, he gets that company’s data.

But Daddy Xi can't hurt you in US. Daddy NSA gets google data just as easy, and next day you suicide with 2 shots to back of the head. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I'd trust China with it more because they're 7,000 miles away and don't have jurisdiction over me.

[+] [email protected] -12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Sounds like you need to learn to mask your data then, can't steal anything if it's all obfuscated. And I stand to my point, after spending the past 4 days just chatting with regular Chinese folk a lot of things I've heard over here just stopped making sense.

Believe it or not, they're regular people too (Crazy I know) And no matter what your stance is on it, it's undeniable the US govt has a massive hate boner for both China and Russia, and has a vested interest in shit talking them, the people I'm talking to are coming to the same realization that Americans aren't all rich and greedy, and that kind of cultural exchange is priceless and infinitely wholesome.

who knows I may try to break into the Russian internet sphere next and see what else I'm missing out on.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

the US govt has a massive hate boner for both China and Russia, and has a vested interest in shit talking them

You're not going to believe this, but China has a vested interest in shit-talking the US as well and they do so on a regular basis.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Hmm... I've never seen China and Bernie in the same room. Do they say the stuff Bernie says?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

Lol

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Wow, it includes a Marvel game. That’s so fucking weird. Disney has a game that is banned on iOS because it’s owned by a foreign adversary.

The world makes less and less sense post 2016.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Adversary"

Unlike the incoming technocracy, obviously.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Well, they're a domestic adversary, not a foreign one

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Can’t wait for them to ban that shitty ass Marvel Rivals

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

TL;DR; executive order < law

Apple is doing something good here regardless of what you feel about tiktok. Don't bend over backwards to do what Trump might want or demands without legal backing. Make the administration force you every step of the way

I.e. don't be a pathetic extreme right collaborator like zuck or bezos

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

"I'm an executive order and I pretty much just happen."

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago

Let Tiktok stay dead for the good of humanity

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Tim Apple trying real hard to get my business

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Reasonable to assume that interested parties bribed more than bytedance for Apple and google discretion.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Might as well build your own firewall too

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

And make China pay for it!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It’s at least something. Too bad no one else has the balls to do this.