• lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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    17 hours ago

    I choose to believe a hostile foreign dictatorship means more harm than a hostile domestic for profit business.

    WTF is the foreign dictatorship going to do to the average citizen?

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      16 hours ago

      “Pig Butchering” and political radicalization towards violence, as well as the largest YoY increase in hacks, specifically from china, which have had large measurable impacts on US Industry.

      And thats just ongoing problems, they’ve probably gotten enough peoples social security, bank acc no., fingerprint, facial ID, etc to do so much more if they decide to cash in on their schemes early.

      Also, if they suddenly decide the USA is weak enough, such as after losing a third of annual defence spending capability via withdrawal from NATO, the Chinese now have intimate knowledge of our defences.

      You are already paying the price and it could only get worse.

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          13 hours ago

          Facilitated by, maybe. Contributed to, sure. The primary end goal of, no.

          ByteDance wasn’t operated for profit like the others, it was operated to do harm. The fact that they would rather shut down than sell 80% of ownership for a hefty profit is proof of that.