The US government has always cared more about national security than the privacy of its citizens.
Comment on What a TikTok Ban Would Mean for the U.S. Defense of an Open Internet
slumlordthanatos@lemmy.world 9 months agoTikTok isn’t doing anything that any other major social media company isn’t also doing. The only difference being that TikTok is owned by a Chinese company, and not a US one.
Just banning one app does little to resolve the overall privacy and information nightmare that social media is.
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 9 months ago
Hildegarde@lemmy.world 9 months ago
This is nothing to do with national security.
jeffw@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Oh? You have a source that other social media websites suppress certain stories?
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
lmao. seriously?
theguardian.com/…/meta-facebook-instagram-pro-pal…
jeffw@lemmy.world 9 months ago
lol seriously? They found 1000 posts that got deleted? That’s a rounding error on the number of posts they delete every second. That’s like comparing an ant to a gorilla. The data is nowhere close to the TikTok stuff