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The national security angle is a farce because ByteDance was already forced to move their service to the US on an American-owned hosting provider, and they have already put people with a history of aligning with “American interests” into executive positions, like CEO Shou Zi Chew and vice president Michael Beckerman, and American oligarchs are invested in it. I think the US “intelligence community” already has everything it needs to monitor and control TikTok.
I never understood what it would help to have the data on a US server. It's not that difficult to access it there from China. I access my server in Germany via SSH from Korea.
What can ByteDance access that China couldn't just buy from Alphabet or Meta or some other tech company?
China can't buy data from US companies. That's illegal. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Not yet. There was an executive order to ban selling data to "enemies" that would include China but it hasn't been implemented.
Also I'm highly skeptical it'll work. China can just work through proxies and not buy directly.