Comment on Biden expected to sign the TikTok ban on Wed.
Car@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months agoThey largely don’t write the legislation. Lobby groups draft the materials and if we’re lucky, the congressional aides make a pass and clean things up.
You can search for why TikTok is dangerous. There are plenty of examples of how the application and platform are not being forthright with how they collect your identifiers and weaponize them for information operations campaigns.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yes but they should at least be able to explain why they voted a certain way on that legislation, right?
I agree that social media is dangerous for all the reasons mentioned, but I don’t see why Zuckerberg and Musk still get to do all those things.
Car@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
I’m not arguing against them explaining their rationale. I originally argued that they shouldn’t be taken as experts.
Zuckerberg and Musk “get” to do these things because they are in the US, with majority US-based workers, running off US-based infrastructure. If any of these platforms are being used to facilitate attacks against the US, the government has can choose any number of methods to step in and enforcing compliance. That’s it.
If Facebook was run and operated out of Tunisia, I’d expect these same conversations to be happening with them as well.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Except Facebook and Twitter are being used to attack the US and spread disinformation and the government isn’t doing anything.
But I guess that’s what I should expect from a government that cares more about national security than the privacy of its citizens.
Car@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
The US government is doing the same thing… poorly. You probably aren’t going to find a lot of sources showing that the US is fighting these fights on Facebook and twitter, but you can read between the lines with interviews.
Agree with you though. National security has trumped privacy. 9/11 changed a lot of things in a bad way.