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coarse@startrek.website 8 months agoIt was a ban on tiktok, but not “their voice.”
The goal is to move tiktokt profits out of China and into the US.
Privacy concerns are a load of bullshit and you shouldn’t believe anyone telling you otherwise.
Emmie@lemm.ee 8 months ago
charonn0@startrek.website 8 months ago
I’ve actually read the law, so no one has to tell me that it really, actually is about privacy. I know that it is.
PhAzE@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Lemmy users are just going to believe whatever they want to believe, instead of actually checking the facts.
It’s 100% about privacy. Data collection, and algorithm manipulation to sway what users see in the interest of the Cinese government. If users think Russian interference is a problem, we’ll this amounts to the same thing.
RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
So it’s about foreign policy and not privacy. Or does the law somehow affect Facebook products too which are the same crap from an individual privacy perspective?
Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What about, say, giving users control or at least insight into what data is collected?
PhAzE@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Again, it’s not about data being collected. It is about the algorithm that let’s them control what users see in their feeds.
hark@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s about privacy in the same way “protect the children” bills are about protecting the children.
Narrator: it’s not.
coarse@startrek.website 8 months ago
Can you share any information to contradict this?
fathog@lemmy.world 8 months ago
forbes.com/…/tiktok-bytedance-surveillance-americ…
charonn0@startrek.website 8 months ago
Can you explain why you feel that would even be necessary?
Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
If it was actually about privacy then the US would be introducing data transparency and control laws (which only kicks in here if TikTok doesn’t sell to a US company). Whether it’s the US wanting to stream their own bullshit to kids or just that sweet sweet ad revenue, this is in no way about privacy or “protecting the children”.
charonn0@startrek.website 8 months ago
That’s a separate issue that could not be addressed with this kind of law anyway.
Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
How so? If you’re concerned about propaganda, require every company operating within the US to show users exactly what data is collected and allow them to delete any or all of it as desired. Show users to the technical extent possible to show what data has connected them to suggested videos or ads. Put the power of users’ hands to understand and control how they are targeted.