What facts? Republicans absolutely do not stand for the little guy…

You could spin up instances of cloud servers just for the time of your connection, but that would be slower to set up and probably more expensive (depends how much time you spend on the vpn).

I don’t know if I would describe proton as a big tech company. Even if they were, their whole pitch is “you can trust us”.

There very much is difference between cruelty and torture, same as with 1st and 3rd degree burns and denying that is awful.

The native Americans are not being genocided today, Uygurs are. I don’t know about you, but I cannot change the past.

The US track record is by no means clean, but miles away from the likes of China, specially in recent years. And you should be able to criticize both (or more) without whataboutism.

Actually it’s “Freedom (terms and conditions apply)”.

Negligence (and even cruelty) is different from literal torture and (allegedly) extermination of an ethnic/religious group.

Also, gitmo holds hundreds of people, not hundreds of thousands.

I don’t know who is this “you” person mentioned, but I’m thankfully not American and my country has done nothing of sorts.

Plus people are not tortured even in ice centers. Gitmo is another story, but those are war crimes, not genocide. I know, weird argument, but I like to be precise m

Well, let’s set the bar at not having concentration camps or not going to jail or being made “dissappear” for criticizing the government. For now…

As long as the Chinese entity has control, it’s fair game.

The user you are answering to isn’t making “the other party” any kind of moral hero, it’s literally just criticizing TikTok.

You already are on lemmy…

Well, that’s the law. If it helps you, I think China should ban Facebook… Oh, wait.

While this may be true, this comment has strong “I have a girlfriend in a another school” vibes.

You can also see it as retribution.

“Get bought by a Chinese entity or get banned” is the default posture of the Chinese government. BMW China is Chinese. Samsung China is Chinese. Panasonic China is Chinese. GM China is Chinese. If TikTok US is forced to be American, it wouldn’t be the most unfair thing this week.

Woosh

By a much bigger margin than the first time. After seeing what he did the first time. Triple wham.

Or south Africa.

It’s a rare W, but a welcome one.

You look at the screen while watching video, making ads profitable (they obstruct the view making you click something to close it, hijacking the click and generating visits).

If you do it for music people walk away and nobody clicks on the ads.

Again, spoken truly as someone who never paid for bandwidth, storage, compute, power, rent, ac, salaries…