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US sues TikTok for violating children privacy protection laws

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When do we focus on Meta, Google, Twitter, Kick, etc as well?

All these companies do the same exact data harvesting.
- What about them?
  
  Google already got fined $170M for COPPA violations in 2019. Twitter was fined $150M in 2022 for disregard of privacy laws. Meta settled for $1.4B in a privacy suit just last week. TikTok isn't being singled out here.
  
  A fine like that is just "the cost of doing business".
  
  Tiktok is facing a nationwide ban.
  
  Please dont tell me that was an earnest argument.
  
  And then Google, Twitter, and Meta stopped violating privacy.
  
  ... right?
  
  So they paid the equivalent of a few day's revenue. Ticktock is being singled out as sort of the new 'red scare', 'how dare a non american company be this popular'
- Agreed.
  
  For instance, G Suite is now so thoroughly integrated into school workflows that, even if they collect nothing from students while under 13 (ha!), they are setting kids up to harvest their data in the future by forcing them to learn how to perform basic tasks only on their apps. It's like advertising fruity cigarettes or vapes, but for data.
  
  It's not just that all of these companies harvest everyone's data, but so many of them are specifically targeting kids from as young of an age as they can.
- Laws apply only if you are Chinese.
  
  Easier to emphasize a boogeyman instead of solving an actual problem, I guess
- Everything does data harvesting... Data brokers and all those invested in our data are happily profiting from our use of the internet.

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