• ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I don’t really use TikTok but I really hope this gets tossed by the courts. I don’t care if ByteDance is owned by cthulus and draculas, it’s a terrible precedent to have the government ban a media company. If we don’t like China having access to data, ban apps from collecting it in the first place. Require algorithm audits. There are so many better ways to handle this than singling out TikTok.

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      6 months ago

      Everybody talks about Facebook like they’re owned by the American government. They’re not. I’m sure the US government gets massive amounts of data from them, but they can’t control Facebook in the way China can control Tik Tok. And much of their surveillance is public with warrants whereas China does not need to follow any of that.

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      6 months ago

      Don’t forget, control the sale of data too. Audits etc to make sure they comply with privacy safeguards, and so on.

      This is just pandering as well as, I suspect, to give a corporate donor a profit-making business.

    • Meron35@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      The precedent was already set back in 2020 when the US government forced Kunlun to sell Grindr

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      6 months ago

      it’s a terrible precedent to have the government ban a media company

      Good thing TikTok’s not actually being banned then isn’t it? It’s just being forcibly sold, which is quite different.