> It’s not a stretch to say that Walmart is controlled by China/COSCO. Shouldn’t we ban Walmart? <
Fair question. TikTok collects a lot of personal data. And it has control over what people watch on their channel. It’s a major influencer, with the ChiComs as the ultimate lever-pullers.
Walmart is different. I go in, buy some stuff, then leave. About all Walmart can capture from that is my shopping list. Of course Walmart can push Chinese products on me. All stores do. Hopefully Trump will fix that with some well-placed tariffs.
I dunno. Maybe I’m too suspicious of TikTok. But we always seem to be losing ground against two threats to us, Communist China and Islam.
So you never noticed the POV cameras on the self-checkout kiosks that scan your face (facial recognition anyone?) and record your credit card information?
I can tell you don’t use it. You control what you see more than on any other platform. You wanna talk data security? There is nothing more intrusive than Facebook/Instagram.
But Zuck is American... so I guess I should prefer him. He would never use my data against me.