Bill that could ban TikTok has been attached to the House foreign aid package. What next?
Bill that could ban TikTok has been attached to the House foreign aid package. What next?
The House has approved legislation that would ban TikTok if its Beijing-based parent company doesn’t divest from the popular social media platform, escalating the fight over the hot-button issue.
We should ban all apps that harvest personal data.
Yeah, I'd be okay with that but this bill doesn't even ban TikTok. It forces ByteDance to sell TikTok or face being banned. Our leadership is fine with out data being endlessly harvested by megacorps, but they don't want China to run one of the megacorps doing it.
It's kind of funny really, because even if China/ByteDance sells TikTok they could just switch from harvesting personal data directly with TikTok to buying all the data harvested from TikTok and other platforms just like the USA already does.
They want to force a sell it to a group of republicans. Possibly for the profit, possibly to control the media.
That's not why it was banned though. That part is ok lol
There are two wolves inside you: One hates US politics, the other hates TikTok.
It's weird how I the US every bill does like everything and I don't think that's good but also short form videos are absolute cancer and anything that reduced that is a good thing.
I hope Europe takes some inspiration from this and either forces all data harvesting companies be sold to a European owner or be banned.
Nobody wants this because they want Steve Miller, a Trump guy, to buy it. It will further erode liberal and left spaces online. That’s what the conservatives want. And the Dems won’t stop them.
“Let the free market decide” and all that bs.
This is what fascist countries do. They see something they like and say "gimme". US is such a shithole.
Tiktok is cancer, so I'm okay with this.
Edit: I'm not sure why I can't reply to the commenter that replied to my comment. So I'll quote him and reply here:
Regardless of your opinion on TikTok, you shouldn’t be okay with the government targeting a specific app.
Would you feel the same if it were Grindr, under the guise of “protecting children?”
How about encrypted messaging apps because the government doesn’t like that they can’t read messages?
This whole thing is dangerously close to infringing on freedoms over ideology, rather than just being about foreign surveillance.
TikTok is an extreme example. If it were Grindr under the guise of "protecting the children," I'd say it's bullshit. But let's not be naive here. TikTok is made and controlled by the Chinese government through a Chinese company. It's an actual national security concern, so yes, I'm okay with what they're going through right now. Deservedly so.
Regardless of your opinion on TikTok, you shouldn't be okay with the government targeting a specific app.
Would you feel the same if it were Grindr, under the guise of "protecting children?"
How about encrypted messaging apps because the government doesn't like that they can't read messages?
This whole thing is dangerously close to infringing on freedoms over ideology, rather than just being about foreign surveillance.
This isn't about tiktok, it's about giving the president and the government the power to censor what it deems a threat
The bill neither shuts down TikTok, nor censors content on TikTok.
Why is it so important to you that it remain controlled by the Chinese Communist Party?
Bill literally bans TikTok if they don't do a fire sale.
Why is it so important to you that it remain controlled by the Chinese Communist Party
That's a lie. If it was under the control of the CCP it would never be this profitable. Governments don't want the responsibility of operating a tech company, they just want all the user data which tech companies happily comply with. The US has been among the worst in user privacy.
Governments are the bad guys here. The US could protect it's citizens, instead they project their own tyranny onto China. Patriotism is making you blind.
They don't have a real answer that they can say out loud.