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Desperate TikTok lobbying effort backfires on Capitol Hill (www.bbc.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I stay largely uninvolved with social media apps outside of this fediverse project, but why is it that bytedance must divest TikTok while meta is free to keep Facebook and Instagram? Aren’t the risks to mental health and security the same?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Meta isn't heavily influenced by a government adversarial to that of the US, so the risks to US security are not the same.
    The mental health risk looks pretty similar, though.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I remember two decades ago when the US was screaming about the "great firewall of China" and how they should open up their internet to companies like Google. What made the US change their mind since then?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They didn’t? The CCP happily allows the export of potentially nefarious internet products, but they still don’t allow the uncensored internet in.

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