Ah yes, the US, where no foreign company is allowed to be successful.
Such unsuccessful or banned foreign companies include Samsung, LG, Sony, Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Aldi, Shell, Siemens…
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kadu@lemmy.world 8 months ago
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NateNate60@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Goronmon@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m surprised that people are surprised that a country would favor it’s own businesses versus foreign ones.
I’m also unsure of which countries act differently from this.
trolololol@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m not surprised but I’m still outraged at the amount of hypocrisy they are pulling off out of this one.
trolololol@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And if foreign politics won’t take care of it call the CIA and tell it they’re hiding oil under the presidents house.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It can still be successful elsewhere. It’s clearly about data sharing.
filister@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I think here the point is that the US government seems to be not bothered by Meta’s data collection which by the way has already been used by Cambridge Analytica to swing elections in favour of one of the opponents and most likely used on countless more occasions but it is not super worried about Tiktok.
If they do this they should apply the same measures against Meta and other companies but they don’t. Which is disturbing.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
As I recall they got Zuckerberg on stand and did their best “rabble rablle rabble” at him, with a few decent questions mixed in, then nothing.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Facebook was forced to pay 5 Billion USD in an FTC fine.
NateNate60@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yes, you have pointed out the subtext that was there all along and pretended like it’s some new argument.
It is about the data sharing. The US doesn’t like companies sharing data with countries that it views as its geopolitical rivals. Big surprise, am I right?
MinorLaceration@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Seriously. Don’t cover your eyes and pretend you can’t see why the government treats US companies different than companies that are directly in the hands of adversaries. They might not care if Meta uses it to profit off of us, but they certainly do care if China will use it to achieve an advantage over us, militarily or otherwise.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Facebook / Meta was forced to pay 5 Billion USD in an FTC fine over how they used data.
kadu@lemmy.world 8 months ago
fuzzyspudkiss@midwest.social 8 months ago
I can’t order Jimmy John’s on my work computer anymore. Why? Because tiktok is blocked on our work network. What does tiktok have to do with Jimmy John’s? Well I would have thought nothing expect it won’t let you set your delivery option unless it’s allowed to send data to analytics.tiktok.com.
Why is a God damn sandwich shop sending my location to tiktok? No idea, but it’s definitely not just the video app that’s the problem.
rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I dunno what hill you’re trying to die on here. A stupid dancing app that provides a data collection platform by a foreign surveillance state is a plot on the Orville. Nobody is concerned with it competing with Google, Apple orYouTube. It’s so off-base. Google sucks anyway. If people are searching on TikTok it’s because it’s giving better results for them than Google. It’s about who is collecting the data.
kadu@lemmy.world 8 months ago
just_another_person@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Well if it’s such a useful tool, it will do just fine in China, right? No biggie.
kadu@lemmy.world 8 months ago