Comment on TikTok faces calls for ban amid claims of anti-Israel ‘indoctrination’
RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world 8 months agoRight because its chinese owned? What is wrong with that? Or is it only okay when a white western dude owns the company?
Gigan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s because the app is controlled by a foreign adversary. If there was a Russian social media app that collected obscene amounts of user data, people would be rightly calling for that to be banned too.
RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world 8 months ago
But thats such a dumb reason considering the shit that facebook collects and instagram etc. Over the years it has come out that they collect so much damn data. They even did psychological experiments on teenagers by fucking with their timeline and see if they can change how they feel.
theguardian.com/…/facebook-users-emotions-news-fe…
They are tracking so much stuff inside peoples phones. They track everything they do and sell it for money.
And don’t even get me started on google.
You and congress are all up in arms when china or russia does it but are happy happy joy joy when american government or corporations do it themselves.
A couple of corporations own most of the media/news in america and that is all completely fine. Congress doesn’t give a single fuck about any of that.
Its the hypocrisy that pisses me off. No corporations or government should have all this data and manipulate users. But its not a problem at all unless a foreign corporation does it.
And to then ban it in the name of privacy. “Only we can abuse americans! 😠”. Its ridiculous.
Gigan@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I agree with a lot of what you said. I think we need a digital bill of rights to protect things like online privacy and personal data.
There’s two reasons TikTok is different:
Being controlled by a foreign adversary is not comparable to a corporation trying to make money. They will use the data they collect to weaken American interests and push their own.
As I understand it, the data collected by TikTok is so excessive it makes Facebook look mild.
echo64@lemmy.world 8 months ago
China isn’t an adversary. It’s a competitor to America. You aren’t at war with China, and both China and America heavily depend on each other and are strong trading partners. This is your propaganda talking.
Lol no, Facebook and Google collect orders of magnitude more data about you, your life, your job, your friends and colleagues, your medical status, everything.