After years of hyperventilation about TikTok’s impact on privacy, propaganda, and national security, TikTok is likely being sold to a bunch of Trump’s billionaire technofascist buddies …
Behind the fig leaf, the argument was never “China’s surveilling our kids!” but rather “China’s getting data about kids that rightfully belongs to the U.S., to slice and dice how we see fit. This evil must be stopped!”
Behind the fig leaf, the argument was never “China’s surveilling our kids!” but rather “China’s getting data about kids that rightfully belongs to the U.S., to slice and dice how we see fit. This evil must be stopped!”