I have a question for you. What is the difference between Google being banned in China and Tik Tok being banned in the US?
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dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months agoAnd Facebook isn’t?
atrielienz@lemmy.world 4 months ago
irreticent@lemmy.world 4 months ago
*crickets chirping*
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
Mans gotta sleep bro. Christ. I’ll reply after work.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
There really isn’t, but perhaps they should be honest about that.
Also, is Google banned or Google won’t do what China wants so left? I don’t know the answer.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Shit I forgot the us government owns 50% of Facebook
DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 4 months ago
Access to the data it’s what matters, ownership is just one method of access.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If this were true, it wouldn’t matter that the US set up the social security number system, because Experian leaked millions of Americans’ SSNs.
It obviously matters who owns a service that millions of citizens use from a country that is a political rival. You’re just hoping to shut down any conversation against TikTok with a whataboutism
DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 4 months ago
We’re talking about individuals’ personal data stored by social media companies being accessible to others (governments, in this case). This has nothing to do with social security.
The problem is that the data is accessable, but that’s not being addressed. This is an improper fix to an actual problem, just facts.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 4 months ago
So Americans having access to American’s Data is bad but you think China having access to American’s Data is good?
DrDeadCrash@programming.dev 4 months ago
No, they’re both bad.
istanbullu@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
They don’t need to: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act
UnpluggedFridge@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Requires a warrant or subpoena. That is the difference.
admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 4 months ago
Also requires the company to be US-based, so doesn’t apply here. Well, not yet, that’s the whole point of forcing them to sell or be banned.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
It doesn’t matter who owns it. It’s the data that the US government is accessing.
I couldn’t give a shit about TikTok, I’ve never used it in my life. I just think the US should be open and say we are banning this as we don’t have control over it. Sure China is only doing what we are doing but fuck em. I’d respect that.
Also, it’s got to be about silencing pro-Palestinian rhetoric too.
If they ban TikTok they should ban FaceBook and Instagram too.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah trump was talking about banning it in 2020 because he used his time machine to find out what it would be used for in the future. After his harrowing story from the future, I agreed with the effort to ban it because I lOvE gEnOcIdE
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
I refuse to converse with someone who conveys themselves in this manner.
Be better dude. Manners cost nothing.
Have a wonderful day!
Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 4 months ago
They don’t need to. Facebook plays ball.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
“if one authoritarian government does surveillance even across borders, why can’t all? Anything less than ‘i agree’ here is hypocrisy!”
PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Noone is saying that. The argument is pretty much that people want more scrutiny applied to other companies beyond tiktok, and ideally not be under constant surveillance by any of them, not that people want to be monitored by all police states equally.