The China-centric video sharing platform is expanding with a new international app and an English version of its website – with no identity verification (for now at least)

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    5 hours ago

    Considering how much damage Google et al do, I legitimately wonder whether China could even do worse, and I’m not even a tankie.

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      25 minutes ago

      Don’t fall for the proximity bias, china is decades ahead on surveillance and stepping on personal rights. They act as a hive. They care more for what they believe that are they nationals and may look harmless to us non-chinese… but i do fear them.

      In any case, I dont see them pressing a button to launch swarms of AI commanded drones to kill every person on a partially AI generated list that they probably already have in their hands, right now… i leave that dystopia to israel alone.

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      1 hour ago

      As far as I’m aware, google isn’t enacting a genocide… as far as I’m aware

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      4 hours ago

      China makes palantir look like freedom respecting software.

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      5 hours ago

      Not terribly interested in this video platform as I also don’t use YouTube. I really hope Google gets broken up and I don’t like them harvesting my data and selling it to the US Government any more than I like companies like Bytedance selling my data to the Chinese Government. I am in the US and think we should have established data privacy and data protection laws long before things got to the point they have gotten too.