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PoliticallyIncorrect@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Copernican@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The U.S. lawmakers say ByteDance may be using the app to collect data on Americans and pass it on to the Chinese government. The app’s algorithms also are capable of influencing public opinion in the United States, where the platform has about 150 million users

  That’s not a selling data concern.

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  • PoliticallyIncorrect@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s the same Meta, Twitter, Reddit and all west centralized social media are doing but instead of be working for communists they are working for fascists.

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    • GarrulousBrevity@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I know this is what-about-ism but I really wish we cared half as much about Meta having already destabilized the last two presidential elections.

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      • thejml@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Same here. Generally, I really hate the whataboutism people hop to, but in this case they literally crafted a bill for one company/set of specific companies… they could have easily made it more wide ranging and solved multiple issues with one bill. I feel the “but these others are also doing it and you should have thought about that” is valid criticism of this bill.

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    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      China isn’t communist.

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      • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s kind of the no true Christian argument. China is Communist in some ways, like it has a “Communist” party that knows best what’s good for the people. Clearly according to communist doctrine.

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    • bartolomeo@suppo.fi ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yea, isn’t it just “media is capable of influencing public opinion in the United States”? Lots of news about Nazi stuff on twitter so I doubt this law is about protecting the social fabric of the U.S.

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  • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you replace government with authorities it’s basically the same. US authorities also buy information from tech companies, which has been very clearly revealed on several occasions. Obviously when police and intelligence services do it, it might as well be the government. It’s just weird to claim the “government” can do it, because of course they can. Just like USA has made regulation that American companies can’t claim secrecy on things they have on servers in EU, despite EU regulation makes it illegal to pass on to US authorities.

    No doubt USA is in the wrong too on this issue, whether China is worse IDK.

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