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Banning TikTok Won’t Keep Your Data Safe | Pompous billionaires, authoritarian regimes, and opaque oligarchs are hoarding our data. Only an alternative online ecosystem will stop them.(foreignpolicy.com)

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Jesus@lemmy.world
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Correct. This was the big reason. Data is only important for micro targeting your propaganda.

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Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world
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Micro targeting, like what trump has to do to keep from pissing on the floor.

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FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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And also for scams or other fraud campaigns.

For me its hard to believe massive widespread “pig butchering” scams are being orchestrated by some random Chinese thugs with no affiliation.

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