They aren’t required to protect our privacy, they are required to give data to the government and lie about doing it. Tiktok can’t be brought into that unless they are an american owned company.
TikTok/bytedance are controlled by a rival country. US based companies can, of course, help our rivals too but there’s some degree of separation that makes it a bit harder to address/discover.
Exactly. I find it hilarious how some of these people conclude that China ONLY gets our data because of TikTok, when our own government and on soil companies sell and shares our data as long as the other (China even lmao) buy it from them. No issues as long as they get money, but if they don’t get the money, it’s “national security” risk.
I know… it’s the things I’ve been trying to drum on about every time someone’s says it’s a “security” risk. No one cares though, because “TikTok” bad. :/
I find it funny that if TikTok was sold to an American it wouldn’t be a security risk anymore.
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Eh? You do realize most people on Lemmy are not on TikTok.
We’re laughing at it all and enjoying the popcorn.
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Yeah, they’re on .ml and hexbear and lemmygrad.
Is it me or is everyone ELSE a moron except somehow for specifically ME
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I don’t know about the devil, but some doomsday prepper edgelord keeps popping up.
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You remember blocking me? 😍
I don’t think about you at all. Just happened upon a living stereotype and felt compelled to point it out.
Good luck with those neurosis and narcissism. So weird those traits only ever seem to affect the self proclaimed “best” IT stooges.
Reddit must be banning lots of people
They are, it’s all bots now
Which is a ridiculous premise.
The point of forcing ownership to be American was to force TikTok to be sold to Musk or one of the other massive data harvesting jack offs.
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because then they’d be subject to all the bullshit the feds do and required to comply.
Like what? What are American companies required to do to protect your privacy that TikTok doesn’t do because they are a Chinese company?
They aren’t required to protect our privacy, they are required to give data to the government and lie about doing it. Tiktok can’t be brought into that unless they are an american owned company.
TikTok is not being banned to protect anyone’s privacy.
Fine, what national security obligations are US-based social media companies meeting that TikTok/ByteDance is not?
The PATRIOT act.
TikTok/bytedance are controlled by a rival country. US based companies can, of course, help our rivals too but there’s some degree of separation that makes it a bit harder to address/discover.
As in implementing back doors and reporting to the NSA/CIA/FBI/CBP/BATF/ETC?
The Patriot Act would like a word.
Exactly. I find it hilarious how some of these people conclude that China ONLY gets our data because of TikTok, when our own government and on soil companies sell and shares our data as long as the other (China even lmao) buy it from them. No issues as long as they get money, but if they don’t get the money, it’s “national security” risk.
It’s not the data they care about.
I know… it’s the things I’ve been trying to drum on about every time someone’s says it’s a “security” risk. No one cares though, because “TikTok” bad. :/