Wasn’t the whole thing about China scooping up loads of data?
No
They’ve admitted it was about gaza
Have they? Where?
I wouldnt trust the words of a Palantir exec if they said the sky was blue, but even accepting what they say, its just that the hamas attacks gave the ban impetus to move forwards. By his own words the ban already had bipartesan support and executive approval before that.
The headline that it was “about” Isreal rather than China is a massive reach.
If not user data and network security concerns, what? Why the ban/sale song and dance?
Control over what messages can be removed?
Political points.
Also money, which are just political points in tangible/fungible format
People were opposing the Gaza genocide which is a joint American isreali project
It’s about content delivery, i.e. the CCP having direct control over what content (i.e. propaganda) is sent to Americans on the platform via their proprietary algorithm (with all the source code heavily guarded in mainland China).
Controlling people’s media experience to push political propaganda that helps powerful people and harms individuals - that seems really shitty.
I can’t think of any app developer or political party who would do that.
(This is an attempt at surrealist humor.)
Both can be bad.
