It's not more naive than trusting the US government. That one has a more direct control and interest in implementing a surveillance police-state.
Prunebutt
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Yeah. The chinese government clearly wants you to see as many ads for some shitty car or makeup or whatnot. That's definetly the CCP and not some Ad company who pays ByteDance. /s
Really? Because you could argue that targeted advertising lead to the January 6th riots.
The chinese government doesn't really benefit from data collection on western citizens. At least not if they don't work for intelligence agencies or want to proclaim that Taiwan is a country while being on mainland China.
They try to do everything to make users stay on their platform for as long as possible. They were probably afraid that the concept of orphanages might bum people out too much.
ByteDance is corporated in the Cayman Islands, buddy.
They are about as cooperative with the CCP as Apple and Facebook are.
Bigger problems like the republicans and other far-right parties attacking reproductive rights? Yeah, you're right.
ByteDance is corporated in the Cayman Islands
The chinese government neither wants to sell you shit, nor will harrass you with their cops (unless you live in China).
The CIA has banned that stuff because their employees are high value targets for chinese intelligence agencies.
You don't have any data collection restrictions in the US (thanks to the patrion act).
Law enforcement has coplete access to the ring doorbell cameras. Google and Facebook have repeatedly worked together with the CIA and FBI. It has been established that the US elections have been tampered with via targeted advertising in combination with misinformation. As a regular US citizen, you are simply not a target for China. The US government however has repeatedly proven that it spies on foreign and their own citieens.
And all that "dumbing down" conspiracy theory: It is far more likely that a profit driven corporation simply optimizes for maximum engagement for ad revenue.
The chinese government doesn't have any say in tiktok. Tiktok isn't even available in china. This is an attemt to please repuplican politicians all the way.
Correction: The PRC owns 1% and has one person in the board of directors of bytedance. Still: the fearmongering against the chinese government is just a smokescreen to draw attention away from the NSA.
It is not the chinese government you should be worried about, my friend.
Google Amazon and Facebook have repeatedly worked with law enforcement in the past. You can still believe that the chinese goverment is sooo much worse than the US, but don't call other people naive if you do.