Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say

Adanisi@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Toribor@corndog.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Congress believes it’s a national security threat which is probably true but they haven’t bothered explaining this to their constituents at all. Ideally they’d pass comprehensive privacy protection laws to setup standards that both domestic and foreign companies would be subject to. Then companies either adjust their behaviors and meet a certain level of transparency or they would be prosecuted under the law.

  But no… We get this instead: a confusing and obviously targeted ultimatum with Congress telling everyone ‘trust me bro this is the only way’

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  • admin@lemmy.my-box.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    deally they’d pass comprehensive privacy protection laws to setup standards that both domestic and foreign companies would be subject to.

    No, no, no. That would mean dismantling PRISM and the FISA. Gathering data on citizens is only bad when China does it.

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    • asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean, to be fair, both are extremely bad and should be stopped, but a hostile foreign country gather data and pushing propaganda on your citizens IS worse than you or non-hostile foreign countries doing it.

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      • a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I would argue that gathering data about your own citizens is actively worse than china doing it; an average US citizen has a lot more to lose if the 3-letter-agencies or the police use it against them, because those are who you would have to deal with in person.

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• Specal@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  but chyna bad duh

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• bighatchester@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t think most Americans want tiktok banned . Unfortunately the US government just does what ever they want and right now there is too much pro Palestine information on tiktok .

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  should you really be banning platforms you don’t like?

  Yes, but only if that platform is Twitter

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• rusticus@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  lol you think “freedom of speech” includes foreign adversary right to harvest American citizen data?

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  • NeatPinecone@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Exactly. I only want my data to be harvested by the NSA. It feels more patriotic.

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