But following media reports, it has also admitted that China-based employees had access to US users’ data, although the company insisted it was under strict and highly limited circumstances.

Employees of ByteDance might be Chinese, but they don’t work for the government. They work for ByteDance. I haven’t found anyone claiming to have proof that data in US citizens has left the company. Just fears that it could.

There is concern that ByteDance may be giving the Chinese government access to data on US citizens. It’s worth noting that no proof of this actually happening has surfaced.

Mostly because of this. TikTok is the app collecting massive amounts of data on its users with dubious intent and questionable security that is currently being scapegoated, and discord is on the long list of popular apps that collect massive amounts of data their users with dubious intent and questionable security that we are not scapegoating.

My understanding of why a lot of people come to communities like this is that… We could be living in a post-scarcity society. There is enough. We just don’t distribute it. We prioritize growing the wealth of a few dozen insanely rich people with the labor of everyone else. Which means we prioritize making the majority of people work shit jobs for next to nothing doing jobs of dubious value to society.