The Adversary

You forgot to label the hat and shirt as also made in China.
- lol yes!

to be fair, while the microwave might be collecting your info, it isn't shaping your children.
- the capitalist hellscape your children are living in is what's actually shaping them
- I dunno, one kid from down the street near me looks pretty rectangular.
- The current US President is committing genocide and he grew up watching Howdy Doody.
- i assume u are down for banning all other capitalist controlled social media platforms too then?
  
  Well if you put it like that... Yes
- As if the data just lays somewhere and just get collected, obviously it is sold to the highest bidder which knows what to do with it
  
  don't get me wrong, I don't mean to minimize that side, I just think there's a fair argument to be made that direct control of peoples eyeballs are potentially, comparatively, much more powerful.

The thing I find interesting about this image is that it oversimplifies the argument (like all internet politics), but contains the definition of the root of the problem from the side opposite that which the author is on.
See we live in a world where our livelihoods are based on us having things to do for income. Maybe someday a fantasy utopia will get built where everybody lives a life of leisure and can spend all their time focusing on what they wish to, but right now that doesn't exist. So when everything is Made in China that means nothing is made anywhere else which means opportunities for work are reduced everywhere else. This is especially painful for people whose parents were well off because of the industry in the town they lived, only to lose those opportunities because the work went to China.
Now add to that the differences in approach between geopolitical Western and Eastern governments and you have the current argument.
Tik-tok is in the crosshairs because it's convenient. Western Governments, most particularly the US, like to talk up the Free Market. Woo, Free Market, no government interference yeah! So just reaching out and legislating trade or manufacturing flies in the face of their ideology (not to mention that their campaign contributions might dry up if they piss off the oligarchs who are making big bank by manufacturing in foreign lands). Tik-Tok however, is perfectly situated. It's run by foreigners who don't fund political campaigns, and it has a practice that is politically palatable to oppose: Collecting data about Americans and storing that data within the reach of an ideologically different government.

This meme is also made in china. "/s"

Man some of these caricatures… I swear I’ve met this corn-bred Ghostbusters prop redneck before.

Big vuvuzela iphone energy

PSA: Samsung phones are not made in China. Iphone's sure are, though.
- Cheaper (and sold more) A Series are, in fact, made in China (or Vietnam). Expensive S series are made in Korea though.
- Foxcon

You think the problem with tiktok was that it was simply made in China?
Not the fact that it collected vast amount of data from everyone?
And here's a friendly reminder that Lenovo has had their very fair share of problems regarding security and data collection too.
- collecting vast amount of data ? facebook does that too and instagram and google and who knows what else
  
  Yes, we should ban all those, too. Or just enforce EU style privacy laws in America.
  
  But not for a foreign government (from their perspective).
  
  Yes. But the US can control US based companies, and create laws regarding how that data is used. They can't control a chineese one.
  Do you understand how the US government might think it's a problem that foreign countries get access to every step their citizens take?
- So it works exactly like every other social media app, but made in... China?
  
  But the data is sent to China for them to analyze and create models of citizen movement, influencing forgein citizens by deciding what content they see.
  Yes. A government is ok with tracking their own citizens. But don't want other governments to track their citizens.

Ah yes because as the first step isn't all the way to the goal, we shouldn't have taken it.
- -associated +controlled but that can do

Ah yes, a chair that collects your data.
I dont get the meme, maybe because the person doesn't understand what tiktok is about and thinks his loved country is attacked?
Edit: crazy that truth doesn't be liked or any serious commitment to correct me. Chinese fan boys are really part of a cringe community
- Can i interest you in something called IoT
  
  Has nothing to do with this meme, dafuq
- Kirkland All-Beef Frankfurters send information about your intestinal fauna back to China.

I hate it too if my table sets spying on me
- dont worry with tiktok gone now u only have to worry about literally everything else with electronics in it.