We should ban all apps that harvest personal data.
Yeah, I’d be okay with that but this bill doesn’t even ban TikTok. It forces ByteDance to sell TikTok or face being banned. Our leadership is fine with out data being endlessly harvested by megacorps, but they don’t want China to run one of the megacorps doing it.
It’s kind of funny really, because even if China/ByteDance sells TikTok they could just switch from harvesting personal data directly with TikTok to buying all the data harvested from TikTok and other platforms just like the USA already does.
I think it is a lot simpler in the mind of politicians: “Tiktok is popular in America but not American. How can we make it ours?”
China already buys everything Meta and friends are selling.
They want to force a sell it to a group of republicans. Possibly for the profit, possibly to control the media.
Instead of banning specific apps, ban the harvest and sale of personal data itself. Then the apps people want to use are still given a chance to exist if they stop mining data.
You basically just rephrased what I said.
No, you said we should ban apps, I said we should have better privacy laws. Two totally different things.
Yes but it’s splitting hairs… If you ban alcoholic drinks it’s basically the same as banning putting alcohol in drinks. Especially for a conversation between laymen on Lemmy
It’s more like we should ban the addition of unsafe additives to alcohol vs banning a specific brand of alcohol, even though most brands add it.
That’s not why it was banned though. That part is ok lol
There are two wolves inside you: One hates US politics, the other hates TikTok.
It’s weird how I the US every bill does like everything and I don’t think that’s good but also short form videos are absolute cancer and anything that reduced that is a good thing.
I hope Europe takes some inspiration from this and either forces all data harvesting companies be sold to a European owner or be banned.
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This is what fascist countries do. They see something they like and say “gimme”. US is such a shithole.
Tiktok is cancer, so I’m okay with this.
Edit: I’m not sure why I can’t reply to the commenter that replied to my comment. So I’ll quote him and reply here:
Regardless of your opinion on TikTok, you shouldn’t be okay with the government targeting a specific app.
Would you feel the same if it were Grindr, under the guise of “protecting children?”
How about encrypted messaging apps because the government doesn’t like that they can’t read messages?
This whole thing is dangerously close to infringing on freedoms over ideology, rather than just being about foreign surveillance.
TikTok is an extreme example. If it were Grindr under the guise of “protecting the children,” I’d say it’s bullshit. But let’s not be naive here. TikTok is made and controlled by the Chinese government through a Chinese company. It’s an actual national security concern, so yes, I’m okay with what they’re going through right now. Deservedly so.
Regardless of your opinion on TikTok, you shouldn’t be okay with the government targeting a specific app.
Would you feel the same if it were Grindr, under the guise of “protecting children?”
How about encrypted messaging apps because the government doesn’t like that they can’t read messages?
This whole thing is dangerously close to infringing on freedoms over ideology, rather than just being about foreign surveillance.
This isn’t about tiktok, it’s about giving the president and the government the power to censor what it deems a threat
First it’s TikTok, next it’s electric stoves and gas cars.
Gas stoves are actually a problem though, especially in NYC where most kitchens don’t have ventilation or exhaust
Sounds like it’s a ventilation problem in a city where 99.9% of the world doesn’t live.
Anyways, I didn’t say anything about gas stoves.