Comment by 34679
10 hours ago
There's nothing preventing China from buying mass data from Facebook or one of the many data brokers. This is about censorship and the ability to control public narratives.
10 hours ago
There's nothing preventing China from buying mass data from Facebook or one of the many data brokers. This is about censorship and the ability to control public narratives.
You're falsely equating mass data. If anyone can buy the data from brokers then it's effectively public and could be weaponized by anyone. If TikTok collects their own data and doesn't sell it, then it's not public and can be weaponized exclusively by the Chinese government. And that's separate even from algorithm manipulation, which is another liability that's difficult to catch & prove definitively.
Yes there is. Facebook has never done anything like this and never would, that's what is preventing it.
Facebook has never sold user data?
LOL
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46618582
Do you think your link shows that Facebook sold user data? Did you notice that Facebook wasn't paid and that the users specifically consented?
"We have to seriously challenge the claim by Facebook that they are not selling user data," commented Damian Collins MP, chair of the UK Parliament's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee. "They may not be letting people take it away by the bucket load, but they do reward companies with access to data that others are denied, if they place a high value on the business they do together. This is just another form of selling."
Not defending what FB did in your example, but when you have to start redefining terms in order to make your argument, you're on shaky ground.
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