Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users

• filister@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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    • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Facebook was forced to pay 5 Billion USD in an FTC fine.

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      • Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Good to hear! Love it when a megacorp gets the screws now and again, wish it happened more frequently (specifically to ISPs who took government funds for fiber infrastructure)

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  • NateNate60@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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?

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    • MinorLaceration@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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  • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Facebook / Meta was forced to pay 5 Billion USD in an FTC fine over how they used data.

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• kadu@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • fuzzyspudkiss@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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  • rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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    • kadu@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No, I think it sets a bad precedent. I don’t think TikTok should be allowed in the US (if the US decides it doesn’t want it as they’re seeming to). Taking the property is going to cause a bunch of what you mentioned.

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  • just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well if it’s such a useful tool, it will do just fine in China, right? No biggie.

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    • kadu@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • pycorax@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Isn’t this in some way the same as how China bans a number of foreign companies from operating? I don’t think doing the exact same thing is entirely fair but when others aren’t playing by the same rules, it’s a lot less black and white.

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