cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12876226
The measure that sailed unanimously through the House Energy and Commerce Committee would prohibit TikTok from US app stores unless the social media platform — used by roughly 170 million Americans — is quickly spun off from its China-linked parent company, ByteDance.
US officials have cited the widespread commercial availability of US citizens’ data as another source of national security risk. The US government and other domestic law enforcement agencies are also known to have purchased US citizens’ data from commercial data brokers.
Tiktok has been the only massively popular social media app that hasn’t censored pro-Palestinian content. I used to be against tiktok for it’s ties to China, but I’ve been convinced it’s important to maintain freedom of speech.
I don’t use TikTok but wasn’t it heavily criticized for censoring pro-Hong Kong content?
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The “American” social media companies and data aggregators have repeatedly been caught selling your information to the CCP. The only difference is tiktok isn’t selling it to them.
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Most recent news.
2018 case showing Zuckerberg does not care.
2015 allowing Chinese advertising, in the same time frame the Russians were allowed to run targeted ads.
They were sharing data all the way back to 2010.
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And yet Congress isn’t going after the “American” companies, just foreign ones. It’s not whataboutism to point out an action is entirely ineffective. And the real reason is to shut down competition.
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Answering tough questions is free. He’s not going to stop until he’s convicted in a criminal court.
So the choice is the American government having my data, which is fully committed to genocide, or the Chinese government which is speaking out against this genocide?
Right now, China is the lesser evil.
Take a page from capitalism, having competition is good for us consumers.
Not sure the CCP has a moral high ground on this issue.
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Ok bye