It’s about privacy in the same way “protect the children” bills are about protecting the children.
Narrator: it’s not.
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charonn0@startrek.website 3 weeks agoI’ve actually read the law, so no one has to tell me that it really, actually is about privacy. I know that it is.
hark@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
coarse@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
The United States has not offered any evidence of TikTok sharing such information with Chinese authorities.
Can you share any information to contradict this?
charonn0@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
Can you explain why you feel that would even be necessary?
Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
That’s a separate issue that could not be addressed with this kind of law anyway.
Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
charonn0@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
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
That would be a very different kind of law from the one we’re talking about, and it would almost certainly be unconstitutional.
PhAzE@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
What about, say, giving users control or at least insight into what data is collected?
PhAzE@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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.
Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And again, there are ways to at least attempt to address that other than just passing the ability to control the algorithm to another opaque company.