Comment on House panel unanimously approves bill that could ban TikTok
Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 months agoObviously it doesn’t. But this doesn’t accomplish that goal. It’s like saying I hate bananas, let’s ban PBJs.
If you want to ban foreign countries collecting data then make that the law and ban TikTok when they break it. And then ban Facebook when they break it. That’s how good legislation is done. This kind of targeted bullshit is just a gift to Musk, Zuckerberg, and whoever runs Google and Apple these days. They’re going to funnel data to the CCP just as fast as they can make a profit from it.
The entire algorithm thing is also bullshit. Facebook has been courting the CCP for advertising for over a decade. To think they won’t use targeted ads for an info op is just fucking naive.
CeeBee@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s partially true. But there’s a difference between having access to a dataset vs having direct control over an app, which includes the algorithms and content being shown.
In any case, if it goes through to a full ban, you can still use the app. It just cannot be distributed on any app stores. It would still be possible to sideload it (on Android).
And that will discourage a lot of people from using it, which would be the point.
I also would like to see any reports or studies showing China buying data from other social media platforms.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Oh? And what would that difference be?
CeeBee@lemmy.world 3 months ago
If that needs to be spelled out to you, then that explains your position.
You’re either not too smart to understand, or you’re a tankie of some kind.
You also completely dodged the part where you need to backup your claims about Facebook selling data to China.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Buddy. I’m not the one here who’s naive and I’m not a tankie.
Facebook being sued for giving data to Chinese companies with tighter relationships to the CCP than Bytedance is literally headline news right now. I’m not going to spend time linking reality to you.
The fact is you’re bending over backwards to defend an unconstitutional law with unprecedented powers. The common sense and constitutional law is staring you in the face. Make it illegal on pain of ban to give, or sell American data to a sensitive country; or otherwise cause American data in your company’s control to come into their possession.
There’s one paragraph that removes the xenophobia, holds the entire data industry accountable, and is constitutional.
The question of what’s the difference isn’t some cute gotcha thing. Datasets are storage containers. China will keep their data in one too. So what is the difference between getting everything Facebook can scrape and getting everything TikTok can scrape?
And you need to look up targeted advertising. It’s literally creating a custom algorithm on everything from Reddit to Facebook to Google Search. Which is why it was used by the Russians to impact our 2016 elections via Facebook. Yet another reason your demand for evidence about Facebook is ridiculous.