Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out

• 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.

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  • 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.

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    • Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My point is, why isn’t that the law were making? Does it not address the same problem?

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      • charonn0@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Not exactly the same problem. In the same way that gun control doesn’t address the problem of hostile foreign militaries. Yes, both involve guns, but the laws and policies that address one are inapplicable and inappropriate to the other.

        The law in question addresses the problem of foreign adversaries having easy access to manipulate US public opinion. The law you suggest addresses the problem of advertisers having that access. Both are serious concerns, both need to be addressed, but they are not the same problem and the solutions are markedly different.

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