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By that logic, you also can’t trust a US based company because of the US military intelligence community, which makes a Microsoft-run TikTok no more or less safe than a ByteDance-run one.

Which gets us back to square one about comparing the danger of each.



No more or less safe to who?

It's the US Government doing this. The US Government probably doesn't view itself as a threat.


The users of the app, naturally. The concerns over it being a CCP-controlled app are about the risks to the users of the app.

Having it be a US-controlled app does not reduce those risks.


TRUE! Except this is the US government acting in the interests of the US government, you see?




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