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Basically everything I buy now means my money is going to China. Somehow that's ok, but letting me choose to consume their app, that's ok.
Correct. Buying things manufactured in China is not the same as a CCP controlled a social media algorithm. They're extremely different things with extremely different impacts. Thus one can be ok and one can not.

The issue isn't money going to CCP. The issue is data and CCP control of the algorithm.

yeah because the issue isn't money going to china its prc control over a major social media platform